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)
“Blind with love, my daughter
has cried nightly for horses,
those long-necked marchers and churners
that she has mastered, any and all,
reigning them in like a circus hand....”
—Anne Sexton (19281974)
“Where village statesmen talked with looks profound,
And news much older than their ale went round.”
—Oliver Goldsmith (17281774)
“What the hell, youre going to die of something!”
—David Mamet, U.S. screenwriter, and Brian DePalma. Jimmy Malone (Sean Connery)
“the whole field is a
white desire, empty, a single stem;
a cluster, flower by flower,
a pious wish to whiteness gone over
or nothing.”
—William Carlos Williams (18831963)