Famous quotes containing the words nbc, nightly, news, chancellor and/or david:
“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)
“There is no news in fear
but in the end its fear
that drowns you.”
—Anne Sexton (19281974)
“No woman in my time will be Prime Minister or Chancellor or Foreign Secretarynot the top jobs. Anyway I wouldnt want to be Prime Minister. You have to give yourself 100%.”
—Margaret Thatcher (b. 1925)
“The mass never comes up to the standard of its best member, but on the contrary degrades itself to a level with the lowest.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)