Correspondents Dinner Quotes

#1. It's a grand thing, to get leave to live

Nan Shepherd

#2. Every year, the White House Correspondents' Dinner inspires two competing varieties of coverage: celebrity-obsessed fawning and angry tirades about how it represents everything twisted about our broken democracy. It doesn't, really.

Alex Pareene

#3. What is becoming is honest, and whatever is honest must always be becoming.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#4. Every actor you work with has a different method, same with the director. You have to figure out what your shared language is and how to best support each other, and also take care of yourself.

Kerry Washington

#5. If you get offended by words - by noises we make with our mouths - it means you were raised by bad parents.

Doug Stanhope

#6. Commenting on print journalism at the Commenting on print journalism at the White House Correspondents' Dinner: "Thanks to Obamacare, millions of Americans can visit a doctor's office and see what a print magazine actually looks like.

Joel McHale

#7. Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know.

Alberto Manguel

#8. I'd rather go to the White House Correspondents' dinner than any awards show.

Scarlett Johansson

#9. Over the weekend, of course, down there in Washington, D.C., they had the big White House Correspondents' Dinner. Do you know who was really funny? President Obama. So funny, in fact, he has already been promised 'The Tonight Show' in five years.

David Letterman

#10. Like it was different up here with him now. Less solitary.More complete.The freedom to be and the freedom to enjoy.

Barbara Delinsky

#11. A new degree of intellectual power seems cheap at any price.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#12. He was a startlingly handsome young man, and that, too, distracted him for girls were attracted to him like priests to gold.

Bernard Cornwell

#13. CUSTOMER CAN DESTROY YOUR BUSINESS.

Deepak Gupta

#14. Thought makes the whole dignity of man; therefore endeavor to think well, that is the only morality.

Blaise Pascal

#15. Sir, pay no attention to the people who say the glass is half empty, because 32% means it's 2/3 empty. There's still some liquid in that glass is my point, but I wouldn't drink it. The last third is usually backwash.
(Said to President Bush at the White House Correspondents Dinner)

Stephen Colbert

#16. I believe that fantasy in the meaning of imagination is very important. We shouldn't stick too close to everyday reality but give room to the reality of the heart, of the mind, and of the imagination.

Hayao Miyazaki

#17. They had buried him under our elm tree, they said
yet this was not totally true. For he really lay buried in my heart.

Willie Morris