Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bob Schieffer

Prior to 9/11, everybody was talking about at least one of the evening news programs going away, that their future was very limited.

Maria Bartiromo

Often I would go back to my computer and there would be so many items in my in-box that I would be unable to send an e-mail until I deleted them.

Hunter S. Thompson

The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side.

Erma Bombeck

Dreams have but one owner at a time. That is why dreamers are lonely.

Bennett Cerf

A person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed.

Erma Bombeck

Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be declared brain dead.

Anybody who wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office.

Jane Mayer

And the program was developed in large part by behavioral scientists who were working with the military, who do everything they possibly can to measure a soldier's stress levels to see how they're doing physically and emotionally, as they go through this program.

Robert Scheer

And the big issue here, I think, is that the publisher took over the editorial pages, a guy named Jeff Johnson. He's an accountant from Chicago, doesn't know anything about what newspapers are supposed to be about, and he made a decision to get rid of the column.

Tony Snow

Somewhere near you, somebody right now is trying to help the indigent and poor - providing food, shelter, clothing or simple kindness.

Lisa Guerrero

Television is a visual medium, and you want to look good, but beyond that it's about reporting, about giving information to the viewers.

Robert Scheer

Sometimes Bill O'Reilly would sometimes go after me every day, and this went on for the last couple of years, and I'm still standing.

Jim McKay

Right now the thing that I have learned the most is to be grateful that I have finally gotten to a point where I am being paid to make films, after eight years.

Pray, v.: To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.

Pray, v.: To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.

Sam Donaldson

At the end of that year I was promoted to sergeant. Only five or six of us got promoted to sergeant for our final year in high school.

Corporation. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.

Jerry Pournelle

Asimov was the reason why we changed some rules in the SFWA, and I'm not convinced we changed it for the best.

Nina Blackwood

Driving down Laurel Canon, which is a major street that goes between the Santa Monica Mountains to the Hollywood Strip, was neat.

Bob Moore

There's always been a mystique and an allure to motorcycles. Even for people who don't ride, there's a fascination.

Jeff Gannon

There's a lot of things being said about me out there. A lot of things that have nothing to do with the reporting I've done for the last two years.

Andrea Mitchell

As kids, we traded 'I like Ike' and 'All the way with Adlai' buttons in elementary school.

Erma Bombeck

All of us have moments in out lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.

Abstainer - a weak man who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.

Bob Schieffer

The most challenging aspect of it is not interviewing the people, but getting the right people at the right time to be interviewed.

Katie Couric

The morning is an extremely lucrative time slot for network television and of course, if it's making money, everybody wants a slice of that pie.

Connie Chung

For instance, he says I let him play golf, and he says, he lets me be miserable in my job. Now - that doesn't quite sound right, does it? But nonetheless, I think for the first time in my life, I'm not going to be miserable in my life when I come and work at CNN.

Robert Scheer

For instance, Clinton who was unquestionably the smartest of the bunch I talked to - both the ones who made it and didn't. He had a great interest in policy.

Michael Medved

For many celebrities, securing the public's votes can prove even more reassuring than winning an election by members of the Motion Picture Academy.

Robert Scheer

For example, I spent a lot of time with Reagan, both before he ran for governor and when he was running for president. As a print reporter without the cameras, I was able to really test the quality of their minds and their knowledge base.

John Gunther

It's the equivalent of putting on the brakes suddenly while driving uphill.

Ziggy Marley

It's that kind of in-born music thing-I could pick up the guitar and play something. It's not something I consciously do.

Susan Estrich

This isn't really a convention, This is really an infomercial. And every night we'll have a different infomercial and people view it with a certain level of cynicism.