For when the One Great Scorer comes To write against your name, He marks - not that you won or lost - But how you played the game.
If it's far away, it's news, but if it's close at home, it's sociology.
I go home by noon, and I'm in bed by 6 p.m. I get up at 1 and do it again.
He who is most slow in making a promise is the most faithful in performance of it.
Heinlein never had a best-seller. Even, I think, with Stranger in a Strange Land, I don't think it was actually on the New York Times best seller list.
Having denied that human nature is creative reason, Jefferson saw society and economics as based on fundamentally fixed relationships.
There is never going to be another Ali.
We've been together 32 years and married for 27.
To err is human but to really foul up requires a computer.
What we've seen this season is that if something that will enhance performance is available, some players will indulge... unless the penalty is an absolute deterrent.
Good gossip is just what's going on. Bad gossip is stuff that is salacious, mean, and bitchy; the kind most people really enjoy.
Under Ronald Reagan - who cut the top tax rate from 70 percent to 28 percent - black income, business development and business growth exploded.
I also think it's not just good for the American people to have independent observers along, I think it's also good for the military.
Greenies have been part of the clubhouse culture longer than card games.
Kids who have no money are still figuring out a way - somehow - to dress nicely.
Kids - in a really good way - can talk about their differences without the baggage that adults have.
I talked to Reagan for about six hours all told. and Reagan was willing to go along with it. He didn't look at his watch, and he didn't allow his campaign aides to cut it off.
I think I regard the film differently now than Wings does, but I thought Ginger was a good little character and a good way to start a career.
I think in terms of our liveliness, our look and the attractiveness of our people, I think that's an area where we were able to do better.
It always produces such a lonely, homesick feeling to know others are eating, and we haven't a chance, even if we are not hungry.
I think that good programming serves us all well. It gives people more choices. It makes us all try harder. And the competitive juices start flowing.
I think that public service is tough on a family - no ifs, ands, buts about it. And I have my own personal wishes, but they're not always front and center.
I think you get to know the people on the shows better than you do in any other format, because the audience sees us in so many different situations.
I was a Girl Scout and I loved being a Girl Scout. I learned so much as a Girl Scout and I used to sell cookies and it was really fun.
I think we have a wide variety of voices, and if you look at our news coverage day in and day out, I think it's down the middle and fair.
I think Bob Costas is terrific. He's so knowledgeable. He can talk about any subject, not just sports.
I think because we were there when it was a very knew and different form of television, we are forever going to be linked with MTV and video music.
I think as long as the vast majority of people think I'm doing a good job, even if they don't agree with me, then I'm doing my job right.
I think that to the extent that the president flinched, he flinched on this point, and that is he decided it had to be a woman and/or a minority.
Life's like a ball game. You gotta take a swing at whatever comes along before you wake up and find out it's the ninth inning.
I was able to do something that people can't do these days, which is to have quality time with the guys who were trying to be president and a number of them who got the job.
I think the thing to remember, though, the next time you hear someone who is really certain that he is on the side of the angels, is that the idea of angels was created by human beings, who are famous for being frequently untrustworthy and occasional.
I think there are some very evil things about gentrification.
Research is what it's going to take to cure all these diseases.
Regarding Syria, we already call for dialogue between Syria and all parties concerned, in order to avoid any kind of escalation in the region which may expose the whole area to chaos.
Reinventing the wheel is sometimes the right thing, when the result is the radial tire.
Patience makes a women beautiful in middle age.
Patience - a minor form of despair disguised as a virtue.
Optimism: The doctrine that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything right that is wrong... It is hereditary, but fortunately not contagious.
People of sense will not take its absurd triviality as anything but helpful in contributing to the proof of the survival of personal identity.
Some of the best stories that I've gotten, that others have written about this administration, about the previous administration, you have to rely on anonymous sources.
My thing is just to do my job the best way I know how and as I say I'm very fortunate to be able to do it the way I want to do it.
Listening is the only way to entertain some folks.
I was the first voice of Baltimore television in 1947.
I was given no special information by the White House, or by anybody else, for that matter.
I was given a White House - well, you will have to ask the White House that. But I asked to attend the White House briefing because I was, you know, because I wanted to report on the activities there.
I think people tuned in a lot to see Barbara when she first came here and they just didn't like the show they saw. I think it was dull. It was sterile.
I think people are aware of how varied and interesting his life was-always at the center of things-as well as aspects of his decline.
I think of Oprah as a Mother Joseph wannabe, a daytime oracle rewarding the good and punishing the bad.
It doesn't mean we shouldn't mention a Lebanese cabinet crisis, for example, but we don't have to spend two minutes with it from the Middle East.
I thought it was astounding that a woman was censured for wanting to just take up photography. I thought, my, how the world has changed.
Joining CBS is a unique opportunity that came at the right time for me. I'm thrilled to become part of the rich tradition of CBS News.
It is crazy to have Judith Miller in jail.
I'm so thankful. I've been blessed. I never took it for granted. I tried to approach each and every story like it was my first and last.
The American government is doing whatever it wants to, without any representative of the American public watching what it is doing.
You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an inner exuberance that erupts through the skin and joins the energy that created the world.
You know, I like to be competitive. I mean, it's all part of the game. But, yes, sure, I'd rather not have it. I'll go with Ted Turner on that.
You can crash on one set of rocks or the other set of rocks, and they crashed on the other set of rocks, which was probably being too little to be commercially viable.
While F.D.R. once told Americans that we have nothing to fear but fear itself, Mr. Ashcroft is delighted to play the part of Fear Itself, an assignment in which he lets his imagination run riot.
Well, I think the operating assumption of everybody is that Novak has provided information to Fitzgerald in one form or another.
Well, what happened is that I had been the subject of vicious attacks by Bill O'Reilly and Rush Limbaugh.
Well, this is the second time I've done New Directors.
We had James Brown on, and he started talking about his prostate problems. If superstars end up like this, there's no hope for any of us, is there?
Using bad language while promising to restore dignity to the White House is a contradiction that will hurt him in a tiny, modest way.
Yeah, see, my view of Jordan is that he doesn't belong to Washington.
The president asked not to have to respond until after he left office. And so the court said no, and gave him an extra four days.
We are really the conveyors of truth in a very critical time and people need to know that truth.
The outstanding thing about my father to me anyway was just what a good and decent person he was. He was good and decent to everybody.
When the world is flat, all these global institutions are really exposed to any kind of global or Internet campaign that affects their image or brand.
Whereas at ABC I was anchoring some of their programs, some of their specials, immediately, because there wasn't that much competition.
We probably paid Cassie a little more than we had to but it was done because I wanted to make a statement that we are here and we're serious.
We're living proof that nice guys always finish last.
We do a hard fantasy as well as hard science fiction, and I think I probably single-handedly recreated military science fiction. It was dead before I started working in it.
We don't invent our natures. They're issued to us along with our lungs, our pancreas and everything else.
The decision came from the publisher. It certainly was cleared by Chicago. And then they come out with these fine sounding words about relation to readers and their obligation. It has nothing to do with that.
We want to break that trend and get it back to the way it's supposed to be, the home team winning.
What I feel more and more is how important it is to live your life in a better way, and not to worry about it. What happens will happen.
There are a lot of people who like to think they don't have prejudices and that they're open people, and yet, we all have that in ourselves, oftentimes against people of our own race or our own gender or whatever.
There are a lot of guys on both campaigns, on all the campaigns now, who do some very questionable lobbying on behalf of very questionable interests and do things that trouble me a whole lot more than a woman writing a book about masturbation.
There are many, many organizations, many people that are allowed to attend the White House briefings. I don't know the criteria they use.
We have become a society that trades frequently. Investors often act on every tick in the market without good reason. And that has a major downside.
There have been trade-offs every day, every month, every year. There's a lot that I missed and I do have regrets in that area. But I have been able to bring to my family the richness of being a journalist.
There has been some research, by the way, that shows that, as people are coming up into their parenting ages, they gravitate back to the evening news.
We also quoted Robert Luskin, Rove's attorney, acknowledging that Rove did speak to Cooper late on the week prior to the article coming out, which would have been July 10 or 11.
Torture is illegal, both in the U.S. and abroad. So - and that is true for the Bush administration and for any other administration.
To remain young one must change. The perpetual campus hero is not a young man but an old boy.
The questions that are not asked by the media surely will be asked by voters. I think it's information that voters want to know and look at.
The party that had nominated Clinton in 1992 eventually impeached him, thanks in good part to information supplied by GOP investigators.
The Petersons have not come forward in the press. Apparently they feel the media bears a large responsibility for Scott's conviction. It may be a while before we hear anything from them.
There are a handful of people whom money won't spoil, and we count ourselves among them.
There are 4 kinds of homicide; felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy.
The one thing that's absolutely clear is that Karl was not the source for the leak and there's no basis for any additional speculation.
When the going gets tough, the tough get empirical.
We'd all like t'vote for th' best man, but he's never a candidate.
We'd all like t'vote fer th' best man, but he's never a candidate.
We'd all like to vote for the best man but he's never a candidate.
The President's got a lot of things working against him which aren't necessarily under his control, and I'm not sure he's familiar with that.
Two great things you can give your children: one is roots, the other is wings.
The reason this resolution was delayed had nothing to do with anything Karl did or failed to do.
Finally, I told them I'd drop out of the management program if they'd give me an entry-level job in the newsroom for union wages, about fifty dollars a week.