Famous Quotes & Sayings

Using bad language while promising to restore dignity to the White House is a contradiction that will hurt him in a tiny, modest way.

Paula Zahn

My challenge was even greater as a journalist, because this was happening in my own backyard.

A reporter discovers, in the course of many years of interviewing celebrities, that most actors are more attractive behind a spotlight than over a spot of tea.

If you haven't had at least a slight poetic crack in the heart, you have been cheated by nature.

For her fifth wedding, the bride wore black and carried a scotch and soda.

Pat Buchanan

I don't doubt a number of those ballots, of those votes that were cast for me, probably were intended for Vice President Gore.

Henri Poincare

If that enabled us to predict the succeeding situation with the same approximation, that is all we require, and we should say that the phenomenon had been predicted, that it is governed by the laws.

Henri Poincare

A very small cause which escapes our notice determines a considerable effect that we cannot fail to see, and then we say that the effect is due to chance.

Henri Poincare

To doubt everything, or, to believe everything, are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.

Henri Poincare

It has adopted the geometry most advantageous to the species or, in other words, the most convenient.

David Talbot

I think we've broken story after story that the rest of the media refused to break even when they had the story because they were scared of the story, or they just didn't think it was appropriate.

David Talbot

I have enormous respect for Steve Johnson, and as I've told him, Feed was one of the inspirations for Salon. They were up there before we were. And also for Joey and the Suck people.

David Talbot

I think we're really getting it right the last few months and hopefully we'll get better and better at it.

David Talbot

I don't think we would still be here if we hadn't gone public.

When the going gets tough, the tough get empirical.

Kin Hubbard

We'd all like t'vote for th' best man, but he's never a candidate.

Kin Hubbard

We'd all like t'vote fer th' best man, but he's never a candidate.

Kin Hubbard

We'd all like to vote for the best man but he's never a candidate.

Two great things you can give your children: one is roots, the other is wings.

The reason this resolution was delayed had nothing to do with anything Karl did or failed to do.

Andrea Mitchell

Finally, I told them I'd drop out of the management program if they'd give me an entry-level job in the newsroom for union wages, about fifty dollars a week.

Jim McKay

There are a lot of people who like to think they don't have prejudices and that they're open people, and yet, we all have that in ourselves, oftentimes against people of our own race or our own gender or whatever.

Susan Estrich

There are a lot of guys on both campaigns, on all the campaigns now, who do some very questionable lobbying on behalf of very questionable interests and do things that trouble me a whole lot more than a woman writing a book about masturbation.

Diane Sawyer

The one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention.

Heywood Broun

The tragedy of life is not that man loses but that he almost wins.

Heywood Broun

The ability to make love frivolously is the chief characteristic which distinguishes human beings from beasts.

Heywood Broun

Everybody favours free speech in the slack moments when no axes are being ground.

Heywood Broun

I doubt whether the world holds for any one a more soul-stirring surprise than the first adventure with ice-cream.

Dick Schaap

Today, it's money. There's no question about that. Unless you endorse a grill that cooks hamburgers and steaks, where else can you make the kind of money that you can make in the ring if you're good?

Dick Schaap

I just can't believe all the things I did that decade.

Dick Schaap

I did not choose necessarily on the basis of significance. If you have a vote for the most significant athlete, then you have Ali, then you have Babe Ruth, then you have Michael Jordan.

Elizabeth Drew

Travel, instead of broadening the mind, often merely lengthens the conversation.

Frank Rich

In that sense, when a Bush or a Gore, or whomever, goes on David Letterman, that's the news, too.