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)
“If you chance to live and move and have your being in that thin stratum in which the events that make the news transpire,thinner than the paper on which it is printed,then these things will fill the world for you; but if you soar above or dive below that plane, you cannot remember nor be reminded of them.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“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)
“Teaching creativity to your child isnt like teaching good manners. No one can paint a masterpiece by bowing to another persons precepts about elbows on the table.”
—Gurney Williams III (20th century)