Famous quotes containing the words nbc, nightly, news, tom and/or brokaw:
“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)
“And nightly under the simple stars
As I rode to sleep the owls were bearing the farm away,”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)
“There is no news in fear
but in the end it’s fear
that drowns you.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“The palsy plagues my pulses”
—Unknown. Tom o’ Bedlam’s Song (l. 37)
“The meaningful role of the father of the bride was played out long before the church music began. It stretched across those years of infancy and puberty, adolescence and young adulthood. That’s when she needs you at her side.”
—Tom Brokaw (20th century)