Quotations today

What they said about: Radio & Television

2007-08-28T12:57:00.000+07:00

Fred Allen;
Ed Sullivan will be around as long as someone else has talent
On 10th anniversary of Sullivan's Sunday night variety show, TV Guide 21 Jun 58

Steve Allen;
Is it larger than a bread box?
Favorite question for guests on the panel show What's My Line CBS TV 2 feb 50 to 3 Sep 67

Jimmy Breslin;
ABC television Network: Your services, such as they are, will no longer be required as of 12/20/86

David Brinkley and Chet Huntley;
Good night, Chet.
Good night, David.
*do you know what it's mean?*(ed.)

Tom Brokaw, NBC News;
It's all story telling, you know. That's what journalism is all about.

What they said about: FILMS

2007-07-01T01:38:00.000+07:00

Fred Allen;
You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a fruit fly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.

Warren Beatty;
When you mutilate movies for mass media, you tamper with the hearts and minds of America.

Marlon Brando;
An actor's a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, ain't listening.

Charlie Chaplin;
All my pictures are built around the ideas of getting in trouble and so giving me the chance to be desperately serious in my attempt to appear as a normal little gentleman.

Judy Garland;
I've never looked through a keyhole without finding someone was looking back.

What they said about: SCIENCE

2007-07-01T01:29:00.000+07:00

Edwin E ("BUZZ") Aldrin;
Beautiful! Beautiful! Magnificent desolation.

American Library Association;
The computer is only a fast idiot, it has no imagination; it cannot originate action. It is, and will,remain, only a tool to man.

Neil A Armstrong;
That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.

Albert Einstein;
The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.

John F Kennedy;
America has tossed its cap over the wall of space.

What they said about: BUSINESS

2007-07-01T01:22:00.000+07:00

Agha Hasan Abedi;
The conventional of management is getting work done through people, but real management is developing people through work.

Bernard Baruch;
Always do one thing less than you think you can do.

Elizabeth Arden;
Dear, never forget one little point. It's my business. You just work there.

William Bourke;
Other people set off firecrackers. We drop atomic bombs.

B C Forbes;
If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.

What they said about: LAW

2007-07-01T01:12:00.000+07:00

Renata Adler;
In the strange heat all litigation brings to bear on things, the very process of litigation fosters the most profound misunderstandings in the world.

William O Douglas;
The 5th Amendment is an old friend and good friend ... one of the great landmarks in men's struggle to be free of tyranny, to decent and civilized.

John D Fuchsberg;
The average juror ... wraps himself in civic virtue. He's a judge now. He tries to act the part and do the right thing.

Paul E Johnson;
A ruling like this will cause prejudice in people who have never been prejudiced before.

Robert F Kennedy;
I'm tired of chasing people

What they said about: POLITICS

2007-07-01T01:02:00.000+07:00

Jimmy Carter;
You have given me a great responsibility: to stay close to you, to be worthy of you ang to exemplify what you are.

Charles De Gaulle;
France cannot be France without greatness.

Fidel Castro;
I began revolution with 82 men. If I had [to] do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.

Winston Churchill;
One does not leave a convivial party before closing time.

Kofi Busia;
I don't like hypocrisy--even in international relations.