Famous quotes containing the words nbc, nightly, news, brian and/or williams:
“Whether lawyer, politician or executive, the American who knows whats good for his career seeks an institutional rather than an individual identity. He becomes the man from NBC or IBM. The institutional imprint furnishes him with pension, meaning, proofs of existence. A man without a company name is a man without a country.”
—Lewis H. Lapham (b. 1935)
“Men die nightly in their beds, wringing the hands of ghostly confessors ... on account of the hideousness of mysteries which will not suffer themselves to be revealed.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (18091849)
“There is no news in fear
but in the end its fear
that drowns you.”
—Anne Sexton (19281974)
“You got an all-out prize fight, you wait til the fights over, one guys left standing and thats how you know whos won.”
—David Mamet, U.S. screenwriter, and Brian DePalma. Al Capone (Robert DeNiro)
“Sure
love is cruel
and selfish
and totally obtuse
at least, blinded by the light,
young love is.”
—William Carlos Williams (18831963)