Harrison Salisbury Quotes

#1. The newspaper is a marvelous medium. It is extraordinarily convenient and cheap. Let's see. This one cost 75 cents. Now that's a little high. I bought it when I was downtown this morning.

Harrison Salisbury

#2. Agreement not to discuss. "He never gets tired of comparing one physical artifact to another," Anders went on, "even if they all look pretty

David Weber

#3. My favorite word is 'pumpkin.' You can't take it seriously. But you can't ignore it, either. It takes ahold of your head and that's it. You are a pumpkin. Or you are not. I am.

Harrison Salisbury

#4. I got a cable from New York saying that what I'd written about the growth of Soviet agricultural production didn't make sense because the same levels were reached under the czars. I wanted to confirm it, but by then the censors were on to me.

Harrison Salisbury

#5. No one can be certain where a nation which spans two continents, whose history begins in the faint traces of early civilization, a nation now struggling to find a new and valid philosophy of existence, will be propelled by the transcendental forces of the nuclear age.

Harrison Salisbury

#6. People take power trips at the most inopportune times.

Lida Sideris

#7. I wouldn't write any kind of book without a contract and an advance. You can't invest that amount of time and effort without one.

Harrison Salisbury

#8. I'm not Rising or Society

Ally Condie

#9. In the beginning there was only a small amount of injustice abroad in the world, but everyone who came afterwards added their portion, always thinking it was very small and unimportant, and look where we have ended up today.

Paulo Coelho

#10. My favorite word is 'pumpkin.' You are a pumpkin. Or you are not. I am.

Harrison E. Salisbury

#11. I think it's important to travel around in order to get a notion of what's going on, to find out what people are think about. I enjoy talking on campuses most because people are more informed and discussion is generally livelier.

Harrison Salisbury

#12. I was introducing [director and producer] Hal Roach - Mr. Roach was 100 years old, he was one of the fathers of early days in films, he put Laurel with Hardy, he created the Our Gang kids, and all these silent movies he did - he was a giant.

Billy Crystal

#13. I think that it is a great achievement to put a person on the moon. But to put a person on the earth-that is even more.

Harrison Salisbury

#14. Life is an enduring endeavour.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#15. George Washington ordered his Thai food on a laptop? Of course not. He called on the phone and dealt with the person who didn't speak English because he was a patriot.

Jim Gaffigan

#16. There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Harrison Salisbury

#17. By the way, I understand that now you can have the Times delivered to your door here in the Twin Cities.

Harrison Salisbury

#18. I can't figure you out, Emily." His words were tight yet even. "I don't know if I like you or if I just want to fuck you.

Laurelin Paige

#19. The clash between the aspirations of the people for a better life and the insistence of their rulers on building a powerful state, regardless of human sacrifice, runs through the whole of Russian history

Harrison Salisbury

#20. Sacrifice, by its nature, was predicated on giving, not receiving.

Kate Atkinson

#21. Never love anybody who treats you like you're ordinary.

Oscar Wilde

#22. Quoted a local woman, Courtney Speed, who owned a grocery

Rebecca Skloot

#23. The Philosopher said that a man alone is either a god or a monster. I'm no god.

Brent Weeks

#24. Journalism students need to understand it and need a solid background in the liberal arts, in sociology, economics, literature and language, because they won't get it later on.

Harrison Salisbury

#25. There's something that scares me. It's the way media in the United States presents the rest of the world. I feel like people in America are getting a completely different picture of what's going on in other countries than what is reality.

Rula Jebreal

#26. I visited the Chinese side last year. The Chinese are in a constant state of military readiness. They have all their nuclear weapons in the area, presumably trained on targets across the border.

Harrison Salisbury

#27. Here, class attendance is expected and students are required to take notes, which they are tested on. What is missing, it seems to me, is the use of knowledge, the practical training.

Harrison Salisbury

#28. Life within the Kremlin was shrouded in impenetrable secrecy.

Harrison Salisbury

#29. Every true man is a cause, a country, and an age; requires infinite spaces and numbers and time fully to accomplish his design;
and posterity seem to follow his steps as a train of clients.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#30. Why can't a state that launches cosmonauts into space provide enough eggs and milk for its city children during the winter months?

Harrison Salisbury