Mudd Quotes

#1. Yes, they're a little biased there, I agree. Mike smiles at this understatement, knowing as I do that saying they're a little biased in Mudd's favor at the Mudd-family-run Mudd home in Maryland is like saying cheese steaks are kind of associated with Philadelphia.

Sarah Vowell

#2. Speaking of human computers, there is a guy named Art Benjamin, he's a human calculator. He says it's a skill he learned as a kid. Now he's a math professor at Harvey Mudd. He can find the square root of a six digit number in a few seconds. Practice.

Bill Nye

#3. Here lies Matthew Mudd,
Death did him no hurt;
When alive he was only Mudd,
But now he's only dirt.

Mel Blanc

#4. New York had a big influence on me growing up, and I was really part of the club scene - the Mudd Club and Studio 54. When you're living in New York, you are just bombarded with style, trying to figure out how to be cool and how to feel relaxed at the same time.

Dylan McDermott

#5. The danger of computers becoming like humans is not as great as the danger of humans becoming like computers.

Konrad Zuse

#6. I have fun at work.

Carol Kane

#7. Action is the 'bridge' between the inner world and the outer world.

T. Harv Eker

#8. Magic, the trick that connects the ordinary to the impossible, was the invisible river that ran through every street and beating heart in Bombay in those years, and nothing, from the postal service to the pleading of beggars, worked without a measure of it.

Gregory David Roberts

#9. Researchers who pick too small a sample leave themselves at the mercy of sampling luck.

Daniel Kahneman

#10. The written tone and the spoken tone change and the reporters' disbelief in the veracity of the government spreads to the readers and the viewers.

Roger Mudd

#11. Its almost as if he was raised by wolves, but wolves who knew the value of a decent education.

David Nicholls

#12. And what it depends on, of course, is whether the story itself is worth the ethical compromise it requires and whether the competition is onto the story.

Roger Mudd

#13. What annoyed me was that I so often attempted to weasel out of things on purpose, it killed me to do it by accident. It seemed like a waste of whatever detailed lie I was going to have to come up with.

Sloane Crosley

#14. For decades, the journalistic norm had been that the private lives of public officials remained private unless that life impinged on public performance.

Roger Mudd

#15. No matter what name we give it or how we judge it, a candidate's character is central to political reporting because it is central to a citizen's decision in voting.

Roger Mudd

#16. In exchange for power, influence, command and a place in history, a president gives up the bulk of his privacy.

Roger Mudd

#17. Sooner or later you must move down an unknown road that leads beyond the range of the imagination, and the only certainty is that the trip has to be made.

Bruce Catton

#18. Most journalists now believe that a person's privacy zone gets smaller and smaller as the person becomes more and more powerful.

Roger Mudd

#19. It's disrespectful to tell the French in the morning that you're going to reduce the debt, in the evening that you're not going to make any savings, and the next morning, after thinking about it, that you're going to spend more.

Nicolas Sarkozy

#20. The more accurately you can think about who you are, what you want to accomplish and how to accomplish it, the more successful you will be.

Brian Tracy

#21. Sexual behavior was also generally considered off limits.

Roger Mudd

#22. As electronic journalism came to be evaluated for its cost effectiveness, the network world began breaking up.

Roger Mudd

#23. Journalists, who are skeptical to begin with, simply do not like to be lied to or made fools of.

Roger Mudd

#24. But the time has come for journalists to acknowledge that a zone of privacy does exist.

Roger Mudd

#25. The networks found themselves having to compete for an increasingly Balkanized audience.

Roger Mudd

#26. I don't think anyone gets married thinking that they will get divorced.

Kate Walsh

#27. San Franciscans know we live in the most beautiful city in the world, a jewel on the edge of the Golden Gate.

Gavin Newsom

#28. Given what the media have put the country through this past decade, it must come as a surprise to most Americans that the press has a code of ethics.

Roger Mudd

#29. The relationship between press and politician - protected by the Constitution and designed to be happily adversarial - becomes sour, raw and confrontational.

Roger Mudd

#30. The ethics of editorial judgement, however, began to go though a sea change during the late 1970s and '80s when the Carter and Reagan Administrations de-regulated the television industry.

Roger Mudd

#31. I sometimes forget how calming the ocean can be,

JoAnn Bassett

#32. Everythings so blurry
And everyones so fake
And everybodys so empty
And everything is so messed up
Pre-occupied without you
I cannot live at all
My whole world surrounds you
I stumble then I crawl

Puddle Of Mudd

#33. You were my wonderfully bespoke original guide to happiness.

Cecelia Ahern