A. M. Rosenthal Quotes

#1. My father, A. M. Rosenthal, edited the 'Times' for nearly 20 years and worked at the paper for many more.

Andrew Rosenthal

#2. When something important is going on, silence is a lie.

A. M. Rosenthal

#3. If you want to grow up to be a big, strong pea, you have to eat your candy, Papa Pea would say.

Amy Krouse Rosenthal

#4. Music was transmitted over the airwaves in the '60s - for free, even - astonishingly enough without Bit Torrent.

Andrew Rosenthal

#5. Be fanatics. When it comes to being and doing and dreaming the best, be maniacs.

A. M. Rosenthal

#6. If a columnist writes that something happened on a certain date, or that the government spent a certain amount of money on something, or that a specific number of people have died in the war in Iraq, to pick a few examples, it is his or her responsibility to make certain that information is correct.

Andrew Rosenthal

#7. Free speech is one of the founding principles of our republic.

Andrew Rosenthal

#8. 'NYT Opinion' offers our readers what we think are the most stimulating and interesting points of view you can find anywhere.

Andrew Rosenthal

#9. Bill Clinton, who packs his own star power, has been a big draw as well as a big drag on his wife's campaign.

Andrew Rosenthal

#10. But it became clear as time went on that in Mr. Bush's mind the New World Order was founded on a convergence of goals and interests between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, so strong and permanent that they would work as a team through the U.N. Security Council.

A. M. Rosenthal

#11. It would be difficult to convince me that leaning has no effect whatsoever on the outcome of my bowling.

Amy Krouse Rosenthal

#12. If you don't have a sensation of apprehension when you set out to find a story and a swagger when you sit down to write it, you are in the wrong business.

A. M. Rosenthal

#13. The columnists have a very personal relationship with their readers, and the readers deserve to hear directly from the columnists.

Andrew Rosenthal

#14. Columnists must make sure that when they describe an event, they are being accurate in their description. When they quote someone, they are required to do so accurately. Errors that are made must be corrected openly and quickly.

Andrew Rosenthal

#15. I think one of the main reason's Rick Rosenthal and Whitewater PIctures decided to 'get in bed with me' on 'Fat Kid' was because I came in with a strong business plan as well as a creative vision on how to make the film.

Matthew Lillard

#16. Ultimately, presidential campaigns are - or at least should be - about the candidates, not their spouses or surrogates.

Andrew Rosenthal

#17. Anti-Semitism does not signify opposition to Semitism. There is no such thing. It is an expression we Jews use effectively as a smear word used to brand as a bigot, like you guys, anyone who brings criticism against Jews. We use it against hate-mongers.

Harold Wallace Rosenthal

#18. The most successful and brilliant work a lighting designer can do is usually the least noticeable.

Jean Rosenthal

#19. The Apple IIc, with its 128KB of RAM, 125KB floppy drive, word processor, and spreadsheet application, did everything I could imagine a computer doing at the time.

Andrew Rosenthal

#20. If something is presented as a fact, it has to be correct.

Andrew Rosenthal

#21. A good soup attracts chairs. This is an African proverb. I can hear the shuffling and squeaking on the wood floor, the gathering 'round. This, from just five well-chosen words.

Amy Krouse Rosenthal

#22. I don't think much about guys from the past. I'm glad I knew them, but there's a reason they didn't make it into my future.

Lorraine Zago Rosenthal

#23. OK, the rule is, you can [make love to] an elephant if you want to, but if you do you can't cover the circus.

A. M. Rosenthal

#24. I like to think of myself as some of the Scotch tape that holds things together - I'm very handy to have around. But all that actors really need is a bare stage. Lighting is just one of the luxuries of the theater.

Jean Rosenthal

#25. I'm turning left. Look, everyone, my blinker is on, and I'm turning left. I am so happy to be alive, driving along, making a left turn. I'm serious. I am doing exactly what I want to be doing at this moment: existing on a Tuesday, going about my business, on my way somewhere, turning left.

Amy Krouse Rosenthal

#26. The very best kind of Saddam Hussein is the very dead kind.

A. M. Rosenthal

#27. Poetry is practically the only intellectual pursuit which we can be positive was highly developed and much practiced in pre-Islamic Arabia. It seems certain that the Arabic word for poet, shair, meant originally "one who knows," and the word for poetry, shir, "knowledge".

Franz Rosenthal

#28. Lighting affects everything light falls upon. How you see what you see, how you feel
about it, and how you hear what you are hearing. Replace the 'a' with an 'e' and you get lighting effects!

Jean Rosenthal

#29. It's getting hard to keep up with all of the news from Washington - witch hunts, conspiracy theories and Republicans tearing each other apart over who is ideologically pure and who is apostate. It's a real set of carnival sideshows.

Andrew Rosenthal

#30. Each time you decide to grow again, you realize you're starting at the bottom of another ladder.

Ken Rosenthal

#31. I like to say that a 'Times' editorial presents a strong opinion based on reality.

Andrew Rosenthal

#32. Don't be afraid to start at the bottom of the ladder. And have the courage to climb to the top.

Rosenthal

#33. My favorite antibiotic for smearing on infected cuts is a prescription preparation called mupirocin (brand name Bactroban), which is available in ointment or cream form. The clear ointment, which is older and off patent, costs $10 a tube. The white cream, which the drug company created when the

Elisabeth Rosenthal

#34. ADMIRE means, I really look up to you and the way you are with your cookies. You remind me of what is good and possible in this world.

Amy Krouse Rosenthal

#35. And I didn't tell mom what happened. She'd already warned me that bad things could hide in the most unlikely places.

Lorraine Zago Rosenthal

#36. I have not survived against all odds. I have not lived to tell. I have not witnessed the extraordinary. This is my story.

Amy Krouse Rosenthal

#37. I'm not sure what the secret to happiness is but I'm pretty sure it all starts with going outside.

Tom Rosenthal

#38. I have sometimes thought the power of computers had exceeded our ability to use them, but Mr. Jobs and his team kept giving us devices that made indispensable things easier in ways you never thought of.

Andrew Rosenthal

#39. popularity when you open it. There are 20 more categories we don't

Morris Rosenthal

#40. The 24/7 nature of online debate, on the web and across social media, has allowed for more vibrant discussion of the opinions we publish - and your own.

Andrew Rosenthal

#41. Women are superior to men in decoding nonverbal cues (Rosenthal and DePaulo 1979).

David B. Givens

#42. In many campaigns, one candidate or another is asked to answer for comments he or she made in the past. The answer is usually gibberish - 'That was a long time ago,' or 'I was trying to say something else.'

Andrew Rosenthal

#43. Opinion pages have an impact on public debate, and they sometimes reveal things the government would rather have kept quiet.

Andrew Rosenthal

#44. You can't equate the game we play to a war. Kellen Winslow said he's a soldier. No, he's not. This is not a war ... not a good comparison.

Ken Rosenthal

#45. The editorial page is where you'll find our opinions, while the letters columns and the space for Op-Ed contributors are a forum for debate and discussion.

Andrew Rosenthal

#46. Even after the Rosenthal column, nobody responsible in the Republican Party said, 'Yes, Pat Buchanan is an anti-Semite.' They didn't join in. Very few journalists joined in. What happened was, when he entered the presidential politics, then he entered a new level of criticism and attack on him.

Robert Novak

#47. Just look at us, all of us, quietly doing our thing and trying to matter. The earnestness is inspiring and heartbreaking at the same time.

Amy Krouse Rosenthal

#48. I thought he should have realized sooner that important people don't show up very often, and you should hold on to them when they do. Maybe I was smarter than he was all along, because that was something I'd always known.

Lorraine Zago Rosenthal

#49. We're committed to giving the independent artists we support the best stage to share their mind-blowing work with audiences.

Jane Rosenthal

#50. Sex as you like it is an animal right -- no mere civil liberty. Defend it with your beak and claw.

Irving Rosenthal