Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rob Sheffield

Watching the evening news in 2011 is a strange time-travel experience. 'The CBS Evening News,' 'ABC World News' and 'NBC Nightly News' haven't changed their style over the decades, still going for that old-fashioned mix of voice-of-authority pomp and feel-good fluff. The difference is that people aren't watching.

Scott Bakula

Years ago, I did a CBS audition. I was nervous. They introduced me as 'Scott Bakoola.' Not a good sign. I also didn't get the show.

Carol Burnett

I had it in my contract with CBS, a very weird clause that was never written before and certainly not since, that if I wanted to do a variety show within the first five years of the contract, CBS would have to put it on for 30 shows.

Willie Geist

Landing on 'Morning Joe' wasn't a fluke. I was a poli sci major in college. I interned at the CBS political unit, covered conventions.

Chad Hurley

CBS has received a strong and positive response from the YouTube community about the quality of its programming.

Jim Carter

One thing I feel sure of is that the standards CBS has set in the past will be maintained.

CBS News has already righted itself...It turns out they had all the talent they needed in house.

Leslie Moonves

CBS is very pleased to have forged this partnership with Mitsubishi that will give American television viewers their first sustained exposure to high-definition television, ... This agreement, which allows us to present the majority of our primetime lineup in the highest definition television format, represents the most significant step any network has taken in HDTV and further establishes CBS' leadership in the transition to digital broadcasting.

CBS is obviously dealing from a position of strength. They've already renewed 14 shows, which is more than half of their prime-time schedule.

Ed Martin

CBS is doing really well and looking like an extremely classy network. It doesn't want to thoroughly humiliate itself.

Paul Jackson

CBS has already picked up the format for this spring, and we're also spending a few hundred thousand dollars making our own broadcast-quality pilot of the all-new Catchphrase.

CBS had no intention of abiding by the terms of its own consent decree after it aired 'Without a Trace,' which had generated outcry from thousands of families. CBS should comply with the consent decree it signed and, if it's true to its word, should ensure that all its employees who were involved in the re-airing of 'Without a Trace' are suspended.

Chuck Norris

CBS encouraged us to do it in Shreveport, but we talked them out of it.

Dan Rather

No doubt the CBS Evening News will be different. Katie is a superb person, and she's a great pro. I'll be rooting for her, and I wish her well.

Dan Rather

No doubt the CBS Evening News will be different.

Stephen Colbert

Simply being a guest on David Letterman's show has been a highlight of my career. I never dreamed that I would follow in his footsteps, though everyone in late night follows Dave's lead. I'm thrilled and grateful that CBS chose me. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go grind a gap in my front teeth.

Going to Rupp and playing in a nationally televised game on CBS is a great opportunity for us. I know our kids are real excited about it.

John Roberts

It had become pretty clear throughout the month of December (2005) and especially at the (January 2006) press tour that CBS was looking in a different direction.

Giving the Olympics their greatest exposure is a continuing goal for us and we're pleased that CBS has made this possible. We're looking forward to airing our third Winter Olympics on TNT,

If we don't do our jobs right, we could be damaging the CBS News brand. We want to make sure that it's as good as anything else CBS News would put out there.

Floyd Abrams

The principle though remains the same, and the important thing is CBS fought hard, very hard, to protect that principle and will fight again.

Floyd Abrams

CBS exhausted the Texas courts. They went from the trial court to the intermediate court to the highest court.

Floyd Abrams

The question at the end of the day was, the courts having found there was no defense, a producer about to go to jail, should CBS in effect tell the producer go to jail even though there is no law at all that we can use to get you out of jail?

Howard Stern

The radio division at CBS is in a shambles.

Jerry Jones

Our team has always enjoyed a great fan following in Austin, and we know that CBS 42 will be able to satisfy the tremendous thirst for Cowboys information and programming in the state capital.

Arn Tellem

My wife expects me to be on a plane to Rome for the CBS screening of the CBS TV movie about Pope John Paul . The screening is at the Vatican on the 17th, and I've got to be on the plane on the 16th, so I'm hoping we can conclude the deal by the 15th, which is deadline, so I can please Hideki and please my wife ? and meet the pope.

I sure hope CBS has something to do with selections in the future, because we make for great TV.

I think we can invigorate the place, just like we did at CBS Sports eight years ago,

Donna Mills

I was very uncomfortable in the habit-all that starched white stuff. I smoked at the time and used to love to walk down the halls of CBS with a cigarette dangling out of my mouth. People were just aghast.

Radio is the real wild card. It remains to be seen how CBS performs without Howard Stern.

Les Moonves

This is a proud moment for all of us who love the CBS name, and who know the storied history of CBS Radio.

Steve Elkington

It's a shame the crowds didn't get to see the finish, and CBS on TV. I know I would have liked to have been watching. I had a front seat.

It's a two-network race between CBS and NBC,