Myriam Laouffir Quotes

#1. In the course of interviewing, I've discovered that if you don't give your guest something to react to, they don't react. They simply say what they've been saying every time they've been interviewed. The last thing you want is to have people say to you what they've said to someone else.

Michael Silverblatt

#2. the way we walk may not be convinent, but the way we stand shows our courage.

Mariam

#3. Forgive. Such a small word. Only seven letters but they carry the weight of the world.

A Meredith Walters

#4. A newspaper reported that I spent $30,000 a year buying Paris clothes and that women hate me for it. I couldn't spend that much unless I wore sable underwear

Jackie Kennedy

#5. I thought that I would like to be affiliated with some school or institution. As time went on, I also decided on the subject that I wanted to get involved with in addition to music: it was Black Studies.

Donald Byrd

#6. Every Christmas now for years, I have found myself wondering about the point of the celebration. As the holiday has become more ecumenical and secular, it has lost much of the magic that I remember so fondly from childhood.

Whitley Strieber

#7. If I wished to punish a province, I would have it governed by philosophers.

Frederick The Great

#8. All they expected me to do was rip and read the wire 'leads,' without doing any original reporting. It was pretty basic, but gave me a taste of how to combine my love of politics and broadcasting.

Andrea Mitchell

#9. Samuel Gompers has spent his life trying to keep labor from working too hard and has succeeded beyond his wildest dreams.

Will Rogers

#10. Now and forever, I'll remember all the promises still unbroken and think about all the words between us that never needed to be spoken.

Carole King

#11. Those who love and free nature are never alone.

Rachel Carson

#12. The record of the rocks contains very little, other than bacteria and one-celled plants until, about a billion years ago, after some three billion years of invisible progress, a major breakthrough occurred. The first many-celled creatures appeared on earth.

Robert Jastrow