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)
“Nor even thy virtues, tyrant, shall avail
To save thy secret soul from nightly fears,
From Cambrias curse, from Cambrias tears!”
—Thomas Gray (17161771)
“Although I am the very least of all the saints, this grace was given to me to bring to the Gentiles the news of the boundless riches of Christ...”
—Bible: New Testament, Ephesians 3:8.
“You want to get Capone? Heres how you get him: he pulls a knife, you pull a gun, he sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue. Its the Chicago way and thats how you get Capone.”
—David Mamet, U.S. screenwriter, and Brian DePalma. Jimmy Malone (Sean Connery)
“In nothing was slavery so savage and relentless as in its attempted destruction of the family instincts of the Negro race in America. Individuals, not families; shelters, not homes; herding, not marriages, were the cardinal sins in that system of horrors.”
—Fannie Barrier Williams (18551944)