20th-century Broadcaster Quotes

Literature itself is a species of code. You line up symbols and create a simulacrum of life.

Only when African Americans, the lesbian and gay community, and families accept black homosexuals and love them for who they are will these now separate families regain many of their members. In doing so, they will help some to find their way back home and discover that many others are already there.

Sometimes it feels like everything is going wrong. Even with the things that are wrong already.

The earth has a mass of 5.97 x 1024 kilograms... a big number and one that really matters because that is all the matter we have got.

Friends have suggested that I am the least qualified person to talk about happiness, because I am often down, and sometimes profoundly depressed. But I think that's where my qualification comes from. Because to know happiness, it helps to know unhappiness.

Alastair Campbell

If what is called development is allowed to multiply at the present rate, then by the end of the century Great Britain will consist of isolated oases of preserved monuments in a desert of wire, concrete roads, cosy plots and bungalows…Upon this new Britain the Review bestows a name in the hope that it will stick—subtopia.

I'd proven to the world that maturity, experience, dedication, and ingenuity can make up for a little senescence. Muscle tightening is not the only thing that happens to our bodies over time. We gain knowledge, focus, and understanding, and those things can help us win.

The Chicago Bulls' Michael Jordan's three-point explosion in Game 1 of the 1992 NBA Finals against Portland is easily one of the greatest performances I've ever seen. As he made his sixth straight, he winked directly at (broadcast partner) Mike (Fratello) and me and held his palms up in a shrug, as if to say, What can I do?

To be human is to be aware of the passage of time; no concept lies closer to the core of our consciousness.

The true secret of success in the investment and speculative world is not so much which good securities to buy, but rather which investments to avoid.

Nowadays Mitchum doesn't so much act as point his suit at people.

Claiming to have explained monetarism to Margaret Thatcher:

It makes one feel like the geography teacher who showed a map of the world to Genghis Khan.

There are people who go to the Hague for war crimes – I tell you this, some of the coaches nowadays should be up for crimes against Gaelic football.

The old style hypocrite was a person who tried to appear better than he actually was; the new style hypocrite tries to appear worse than he or she is.

Charles Templeton

Office tends to confer a dreadful plausibility on even the most negligible of those who hold it.

To be without trees would, in the most literal way, to be without our roots.

All the girls say they love me
all their mums say I'm lovely —
ever since I lived in the clouds.

I believe in reincarnation, so I've left all my money to myself.

Does anyone really imagine for a moment that my wife gives two stuffs about global warming? She certainly did not appear to be all that bothered on Thursday evening when, during the great carbon-saving switch-off, I ran round the house furiously turning on every light, hair dryer, dishwasher and toaster.

Jeremy Clarkson

No myth dies harder, and none is more regularly debunked by the facts, than the one about international sports contributing to international friendship.

Almost anything is edible with a dab of French mustard on it.

None of us have much idea where we are. Perhaps all our lives are too concerned with where, and not enough with who.

Catherine Fisher

I don't believe in coincidences. I believe that if you're doing the right thing, you are handed back pieces of yourself. It's like something goes right for you and this will keep you going for six weeks, and then your next test is going to be designed for you.

The Devil may take the reckless, but the good will surely die of boredom. Boredom and frustration.

Food can comfort. But when you've just lost someone you love you don't want that to be the case. When my mother died some people came up to me and said, "You'll get over it." That felt like such an assault to me.