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)
“News of battle! News of battle!
Hark. Tis ringing down the street
And the archways and the pavement
Bear the clang of hurrying feet.
News of battle. Who has brought it?”
—William Edmonstoune Aytoun (18131865)
“Brian OLinn was a gentleman born,
He lived at a time when no clothes they were worn.”
—Unknown. Brian OLinn (l. 12)
“so much depends
upon
a red wheel
barrow”
—William Carlos Williams (18831963)