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)
“Yet nightly pitch my moving tent,
A days march nearer home.”
—James Montgomery (17711854)
“Theres a long story, my friend. I never did like the idea of sitting on newspapers. I did it once and all the headlines came off on my white pants. On the level, it actually happened. Nobody bought a paper that day. They just followed me around over town and read the news off the seat of my pants.”
—Robert Riskin (18971955)
“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)
“the black wings
of the
hospital where
nothing
will grow”
—William Carlos Williams (18831963)