Nbc Nightly News/brian Williams 2004%e2%80%93present

Famous quotes containing the words nbc, nightly, news, brian and/or williams:

    Whether lawyer, politician or executive, the American who knows what’s 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)

    If answerable style I can obtaine
    Of my Celestial Patroness, who deignes
    Her nightly visitation unimplor’d,
    And dictates to me slumbring, or inspires
    Easie my unpremeditated Verse:
    John Milton (1608–1674)

    Newsmen believe that news is a tacitly acknowledged fourth branch of the federal system. This is why most news about government sounds as if it were federally mandated—serious, bulky and blandly worthwhile, like a high-fiber diet set in type.
    —P.J. (Patrick Jake)

    I think I’m going to have a drink.
    David Mamet, U.S. screenwriter, and Brian DePalma. Elliot Ness (Kevin Costner)

    they appear youthful, rare

    as the light of a happy eye, live with the grace
    of all that in the mind is fleckless, free and
    naturally to be desired.
    —William Carlos Williams (1883–1963)