Famous Quotes & Sayings

Daniel Okrent

I was probably being a little cocky, which I do when I feel that I don't know what I'm talking about.

I have made mistakes but I have never made the mistake of claiming that I have never made one.

Tina Brown

I sat next to an actor who told me he didn't know anything about John Kerry except he had been a doctor. I realized it truly is another planet.

Rich Lowry

If Bill was all id, Hillary is all superego.

Brock Yates

My father, Raymond F. Yates, was a successful writer of technical nonfiction and such a life seemed a reasonable alternative to real work.

Julius Schwartz

Since Earth-One is where the Flash existed, and Earth-Two had the other super heroes, how about our Earth? There are no super-heroes.

Julius Schwartz

Many are the things I guess we'd like to go back in time and rectify the things we didn't do right, eh?

Brock Yates

Much of our quiet time is spent boating and generally loafing at our second home in the 1,000 Islands on the St. Lawrence River.

The news is staged, anticipated, reported, analyzed until all interest is wrung from it and abandoned for some new novelty.

I wouldn't believe him if he said the sun came up in the east.

Anderson's muckraking is one of debatable ends constantly used to justify questionable works.

Journalism constructs momentarily arrested equilibriums and gives disorder an implied order. That is already two steps from reality.

Its attitude, which it has preached and practiced, is skepticism. Now, it finds, the public is applying that skepticism to the press.

Journalism is in fact history on the run.

Ben Bradlee

They certainly did. They tried to make her look like a "nut case" and they succeeded to some extent.

Peter Bart

One of Brando's problems is that he can't have a conversation with anyone.

Peter Bart

Hollywood is going to have to find a way of meeting those profit goals.

Peter Bart

The green-light meeting, when I first started at Paramount, would consist of maybe three or four of us in a room. Perhaps two or three of us would have read the script under discussion.

Peter Bart

The green-light decision process today consists of maybe of 30 or 40 people.

Orrin Hatch

The Federal government does not have any information about extraterrestrial life to conceal, and there are no secret projects for me to investigate.

Horace Greeley

Go West, young man, and grow up with the country.

Al-Jazeera should not go unanswered in the Middle East.

William White

Consistency is only a paste jewel that cheap men cherish.

Tina Brown

I just wanted to have fun for myself-I felt I had a lot to say, and I realized that I missed having a magazine as a place to express my ideas. The Times column is a place for me to unload those perceptions.

Helen Gurley Brown

You can have your titular recognition. I'll take money and power.

Helen Gurley Brown

Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.

Norman Cousins

Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country.

Julius Schwartz

All I know is, when I did it in the Justice League, the summer issues, they sold many percentage points higher than any other issues of the year.

Robert Green Ingersoll

I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot.