Broadcaster Quotes

Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy.

Dorothy Thompson

You can work next to a guy for months without even knowing his name.

You will find a blacker world on death row than anywhere else. African-Americans, a mere 11 percent of the national population, compose about 40 percent of the death row population. There, too, you will find this writer.

Mumia Abu-Jamal

We are all born naked into this world, but each of us is fully clothed in potential.

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

(Roberto) Clemente could field the ball in New York and throw out a guy in Pennsylvania.

I am only too aware that I am open to Rees's Second Law of Quotation: "However sure you are that you have attributed a quotation correctly, an earlier source will be pointed out to you."

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

I cannot believe that it will ever be feasible to send a manned space-ship out beyond the Solar System; my lack of faith in space-warps, time-warps, freezing techniques, and cosmical Noah's Arks is profound, though I am well aware that others do not agree.

[Sir James Goldsmith] has got nothing to be smug about, and I would like to say that 1,500 votes is a derisory total. We have shown tonight that the Referendum Party is dead in the water, and Sir James can get off back to Mexico knowing your attempt to buy the British political system has failed.

What about the people that couldn't get out?! Someday it's gonna happen to you!... You won't have a car, and you won't have a government airplane, and you won't have a cell phone, and you won't have a weapon!... Blaming the victim...

.... well with me now is Geoffrey Robinson. He was once voted 'After-dinner Speaker of the Year', so if you've had your tea, you're in for a treat