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)
“News is what a chap who doesnt care much about anything wants to read. And its only news until hes read it. After that its dead.”
—Evelyn Waugh (19031966)
“Brian OLinn was a gentleman born,
He lived at a time when no clothes they were worn.”
—Unknown. Brian OLinn (l. 12)
“Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head. Shakespeare has perhaps 20 players, and Tennessee Williams has about 5, and Samuel Beckett oneand maybe a clone of that one. I have 10 or so, and thats a lot. As you get older, you become more skillful at casting them.”
—Gore Vidal (b. 1925)