Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Plimpton

I think people are aware of how varied and interesting his life was-always at the center of things-as well as aspects of his decline.

Frank Rich

While F.D.R. once told Americans that we have nothing to fear but fear itself, Mr. Ashcroft is delighted to play the part of Fear Itself, an assignment in which he lets his imagination run riot.

Michael Isikoff

Well, I think the operating assumption of everybody is that Novak has provided information to Fitzgerald in one form or another.

Robert Scheer

Well, what happened is that I had been the subject of vicious attacks by Bill O'Reilly and Rush Limbaugh.

Jim McKay

Well, this is the second time I've done New Directors.

Allan Carr

We had James Brown on, and he started talking about his prostate problems. If superstars end up like this, there's no hope for any of us, is there?

Margaret Carlson

I think of Oprah as a Mother Joseph wannabe, a daytime oracle rewarding the good and punishing the bad.

It doesn't mean we shouldn't mention a Lebanese cabinet crisis, for example, but we don't have to spend two minutes with it from the Middle East.

Glenn Close

I thought it was astounding that a woman was censured for wanting to just take up photography. I thought, my, how the world has changed.

Katie Couric

Joining CBS is a unique opportunity that came at the right time for me. I'm thrilled to become part of the rich tradition of CBS News.

You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an inner exuberance that erupts through the skin and joins the energy that created the world.

Connie Chung

You know, I like to be competitive. I mean, it's all part of the game. But, yes, sure, I'd rather not have it. I'll go with Ted Turner on that.

David Talbot

You can crash on one set of rocks or the other set of rocks, and they crashed on the other set of rocks, which was probably being too little to be commercially viable.

Connie Chung

For the most part, my husband is home in the evening and maybe there is something that I can do to figure out how I can balance all of this.

Bob Edwards

For one thing, you can get old, fat, bald and nobody knows and nobody cares. So there's great longevity in radio, more security there.

George Clooney

I'd think,'In a relationship, we should never have his kind of fight.' Then, instead of figuring out how to make it work, I looked for a way to get out of it. The truth is, you shouldn't be married if your that kind of person.

Armstrong Williams

I fear that we have been so conditioned not to disparage the practices of other cultures, that we ignore this evil microbe among us.

However the facts are to be explained, the possibility of the facts I am constrained to admit; there is no further room in my mind for doubt.

Dick Schaap

He's in it for Don King and that's understandable because that's why people go into business. He's just kind of slippery about it.

Robert Lewis

I can't believe what I have seen people do.

Allan Carr

I'd love to do acting, but it'd definitely have to be comedy. I can't do serious. It's completely beyond me.

Glenn Close

I don't live in Hollywood. I try to live a quiet life. I don't go out to a lot of events, and I don't go out buying a lot of clothes.

Nina Blackwood

I do get a big kick out of radio though.

Ron Reagan

The outstanding thing about my father to me anyway was just what a good and decent person he was. He was good and decent to everybody.

Bob Schieffer

I had an idea in the beginning to do a book about some of the events that I had covered, just various stories that I've covered. Reporters spend a lot of time telling each other tales about how they covered stories, and that's what this book started out to be.

Bob Schieffer

With Vietman, we found ourselves involved there before we really understood what was going on.

Bob Schieffer

People are more sophisticated in the way they go about dealing with the press.

Bob Schieffer

I've basically thought of myself as a writer, whether I was or not.

Bob Schieffer

In so many of the other beats these days, there are these layers of public relations people that you have to go through to get to the newsmakers themselves.

Bayard Taylor

Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give; when to this truth you waken then you begin to live.

Brit Hume

The president's poking fun at himself over what goes down. I thought it was a good-natured performance. It made him look good. But he certainly doesn't disguise the record on weapons of mass destruction. And you feel like saying to people, Just get over it.

Elmer Davis

This will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.

Ernie Pyle

At last we are in it up to our necks, and everything is changed, even your outlook on life.