Edwin Newman Quotes

#1. Will America be the death of English? I'm glad I asked me that. My well-thought-out mature judgment is that it will.

Edwin Newman

#2. When you fear to fail, you fear something that has not happened yet. You predict your own failure, and by inaction, lock yourself into it.

Robin Hobb

#3. Few things concentrate the mind more efficiently than the necessity of saying what you mean. It brings you face to face with what you are talking about, what you are actually proposing. It gets you away from the catch phrases that not merely substitute for thought but preclude it.

Edwin Newman

#4. Surfing is like that. You are either vigorously cursing or else you are idiotically pleased with yourself.

Agatha Christie

#5. Not communicating saves energy; it keeps people from worrying about things they cannot do anything about; and it eliminates an enormous amount of useless talk.

Edwin Newman

#6. I think we are making a mistake, a very big mistake if we look at what we call the Arab Awakening only by looking at the whole dynamics in political and not in economic terms.

Tariq Ramadan

#7. The first day of the rest of my life.

Lee Child

#8. To harness the power of television for the education of our nation's children, everyone must get involved - television programmers, government leaders, teachers, and above all, parents.

Edwin Newman

#9. Being able to draw Batman was 100% of my decision to sign with DC.

David Finch

#10. There is such a thing as good interference from your record label. I don't think I get enough interference from my record label.

Elton John

#11. Vice-President Ford, possibly preparing for higher duties, assessed Kissinger's part in the Syrian-Israeli troop disengagement as the great diplomatic triumph of this century or perhaps any other.

Edwin Newman

#12. What advice I would give to anybody about anything. Life is a slow-motion avalanche, and none of us are steering. (When asked in an interview about what question he's tired of being asked.)

Donald E. Westlake

#13. Abraham Lincoln was on the side of the social scientists when he said, God must have loved the people of lower and middle socioeconomic status, because he made such a multiplicity of them.

Edwin Newman

#14. I've only ever had one doubt about music. It came when I was 11. I hated playing scales.

Tom Odell

#15. William F. Buckley, Jr. does not speak so much as exhale, but he exhales polysyllabically, and the results are remarkable.

Edwin Newman

#16. Quiet people keep thier secrets to themselves. That's what makes them interesting ... and usually worth the wait.

Kirsten Miller

#17. The single biggest difference between financial success and financial failure is how well you manage your money. It's simple: to master money, you must manage money.

T. Harv Eker

#18. In a decade, America's mighty rivers will have reached the boiling point.

Edwin Newman

#19. Those for whom words have lost their value are likely to find that ideas have also lost their value.

Edwin Newman

#20. Ultimately, the film industry has always pushed out its biggies, and I don't have a problem with that. I just wish that we'd spend more time nurturing the smaller ones.

John Hurt

#21. We are born to love, we live to love, and we will die to love still more.

Saint Joseph

#22. We live in a big and marvelously varied world. Television ought to reflect that.

Edwin Newman

#23. They have to stick their instruments in. They have to leave their mark. They can't just watch. They can't just appreciate. They can't just fit into the natural order. They have to make something unnatural happen. That is the scientist's job,

Michael Crichton

#24. Many Americans feel themselves inferior in the presence of anyone with an English accent, which is why an English accent has become fashionable in television commercials; it is thought to sound authoritative.

Edwin Newman

#25. Love is greater than a sword.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#26. What is your name?" asked Lear.
Caius," said Kent.
And whence do you hail?"
From Bonking, sire."
Well, yes, lad, as do we all," said Lear, "but from what town?

Christopher Moore

#27. Language is in decline. Not only has eloquence departed but simple, direct speech as well, though pomposity and banality have not.

Edwin Newman