Famous Quotes & Sayings

Frank Rich

One of the good things about television is that there's such alternatives now to what's often homogenized network entertainment.

Jim McKay

I was going to be an English teacher.

Jeff Gannon

Mr. President, How are you going to work with people who seem to have divorced themselves from reality?

Mediums have perhaps but little conscious information to give us concerning their powers; we must learn from what they do, not from what they say.

Jerry Pournelle

One the other hand, the publishing trend is ghastly, isn't it? Two hundred and something distributors are now down to 10 or 12? And what's the recruiting drive?

Charles Warner

No one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

I believe 'credibility' is one of the biggest issues yet to be addressed by Internet advertisers.

Commercial speech is like obscenity... we can't seem to define it, but we know it when we see it.

Congress seems to believe that 'Children are our future' is a phrase coined by tobacco advertisers.

Jim Bishop

It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Liz Smith

To deny we need and want power is to deny that we hope to be effective.

Liz Smith

You can't build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Liz Smith

All weddings, except those with shotguns in evidence, are wonderful.

Liz Smith

The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Liz Smith

The marriage didn't work out but the separation is great.

Liz Smith

One of the best parts of growing older? You can flirt all you like since you've become harmless.

David Talbot

The only school that let me in was U.C. Santa Cruz, which is where I went. They didn't have a journalism program, so I took sociology, which is the closest thing to journalism.

Seymour Hersh

Bush can talk about 100,000 people wanting to go work in the police or in the army. It's because there's nothing else for them to do. They're willing to stand in line to get bombed because they want to take care of their family.

Sam Donaldson

But a distinctive voice is important. I don't think I realized this as a young kid, but I do remember listening to those voices.

But even if it were the case that the natural laws had nolonger any secret for us, we could still know the situation approximately.

Connie Chung

But essentially, it will be a news oriented program. It will be a news program with spinoffs of the news of the day, not unlike what you do, Larry.

Michael Isikoff

No, I did not offer to resign for a second.

Now, they invent them deliberately just to invalidate our ancestors' reasoning, and that is all they are ever going to get out of them.

Jane Mayer

Now that he has disavowed as outright lies many of the stories he told himself, it's hard to know what to make of those who still insist that David Brock had it right the first time.

Kin Hubbard

Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out any quicker than the Christmas spirit.

Heywood Broun

Nobody talks about God as those who insist that there is no God.

Give a lift to a tomato, you expect her to be nice, don't ya? After all, what kind of dames thumb rides, Sunday school teachers?

John Gunther

If a man's from Texas, he'll tell you. If he's not, why embarrass him by asking?

Agnes Smedley

I have lived in the homes of workers; they live on boiled potatoes, black bread with lard spread on it instead of butter, and rotten beer.

Dick Schaap

I hate repetition and I love challenges, and that is why I've jumped from newspapers to magazines to books to television to radio to public speaking.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I hate books; they only teach us to talk about what we don't know.

Glenn Close

I find it quite amusing that I can frighten children by just saying, Puppies. Usually they're disappointed I don't actually have black and white hair.

Jeff Gannon

I can tell you that there is a lot of misinformation out there. There's a lot of fabrication out there, and a lot of misinformation.