Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barbara Walters

I found talking to the young failed suicide bomber the most unsettling and depressing - that there could be that much hatred and ignorance.

Connie Chung

I don't know what all of us can do to continue to press for more women, more minorities, but it's just something that we all have to work on.

Bob Schieffer

I'd covered the campaign in 1988, and I'd managed to gain an even 20 pounds, which is one of the dangers you have covering those campaigns.

Bob Edwards

I wanted to be one of the voices in the box.

Bob Edwards

I got to know every format of every station and who was on and what time.

Bob Edwards

In my case, the listener is often in an automobile driving to work. You can concentrate on the road while still getting an audio message that can be riveting.

Bob Edwards

I think we're doing the right things for the right reasons. We're not doing it to sell products. We're not doing it to be popular. We're doing it because in our judgment these stories are important to do, and at this length and this much depth.

Bob Edwards

If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.

Bob Edwards

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.

We've created an impression that life is risk-free, and it's not.

I think we need to think beyond the issue of absolute risk.

Even then, Vanderbilt was the premiere place for clinical pharmacology.

I thought my Beatles LPs sounded pretty good on a record player, but that was before I had heard a CD.

I see my job as being to facilitate the life of clinical researchers so that they can be more productive, and trying to keep the bureaucracy from getting in their way.

Henri Poincare

Thus, they are free to replace some objects by others so long as the relations remain unchanged.

Henri Poincare

No more than these machines need the mathematician know what he does.

Helen Thomas

We won't really know what will happen until it happens.

Helen Thomas

I'm covering the worst president in American history.

Gene Fowler

Never thank anybody for anything, except a drink of water in the desert - and then make it brief.

Gene Fowler

Whatever one believes to be true either is true or becomes true in one's mind.

Charles Dudley Warner

There was never a nation great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help.

Ed Bradley

I made the decision to come back to New York, quit my job and move to Paris.

Ed Bradley

I did anything that would get me on the air.

Ed Bradley

But you know, I always said that no one else on my block was on the radio, and it was fun.

Ed Bradley

And I realized that there was no sports reporter, so I started covering sporting events.

Ed Bradley

I would listen to how they told the story, to what elements they used, to how it sounded, and that's who I patterned myself after, the people who were on CBS News.

Ed Bradley

Probably my mother. She was a very compassionate woman, and always kept me on my feet. And I think part of it is just the way you are, the way you're raised. And she had the responsibility for raising me.

Ed Bradley

So I just got on the phone and the engineer just patched me in and I did reports. I'd get a community leader and bring him to the phone, call up the station and do an interview over the phone with the guy.

Eleanor Clift

Looking at female candidates today, other women are the hardest on them, especially older women who were brought up in a different culture.

Hugh Sidey

Kennedy did not have to run the risk of having his ideas and his words shortened and adulterated by a correspondent. This was the television era, not only in campaigning, but in holding the presidency.

Art Buchwald

So far things are going my way. I am known in the hospice as The Man Who Wouldn't Die. I don't know if this is true or not, but I think some people, not many, are starting to wonder why I'm still around.

Barbara Walters

What I feel more and more is how important it is to live your life in a better way, and not to worry about it. What happens will happen.

Lincoln Steffens

I have been over into the future, and it works.