Nixon Tv Quotes

#1. When you look at Kennedy and Nixon, TV played a crucial part in Kennedy's popularity. He was incredibly photogenic, while Nixon was this scowling figure. American viewers judged him on his appearance on TV.

Peyton Reed

#2. The freefall sex? Grossly oversold. Everything moves in all the wrong ways. Things get away from you. You have to strap everything down to get purchase. It's more like mutual bondage.

Ian McDonald

#3. We're getting closer to our nature.

Clifford Geertz

#4. If something doesn't work in my house - TV, phone, stereo, anything - I just call my dad, and he knows the answer.

Kimberley Nixon

#5. Nixon, with his mellifluous baritone, was a great politician for radio but creepy on TV.

Richard Corliss

#6. It's not worth moving heaven and earth, spending billions of dollars just trying to catch one person.

Mitt Romney

#7. You can't do opera when already from the 10th row you can only see little dolls on the stage. In such an enormous space you can't put much faith in the personal presence of the individual singer, which is reflected in facial expressions, among other things.

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

#8. When the wrath of God is revealed in the world, it is revealed as God "lets go" of a culture,

Douglas Wilson

#9. If you have a sudden emergency, earthquake, hurricane, you name it, we want to be able to have a National Guard officer able to command federal forces.

James A. Winnefeld Jr.

#10. I've always been interested in finding out more about the properties of acoustics.

Z'EV

#11. I think TV is the only place left where you can have a midsize something.

Cynthia Nixon

#12. There's a basic law, Klein's second, or third, or fourth law of politics in the TV age, which is warm always beats cold, with the exception of Richard Nixon. The nicer guy usually wins.

Joe Klein

#13. Benjamin, we may be murderers, liars, and fornicators. These are British politicians. We cannot possibly compete.

John Wiltshire

#14. Nixon's the kind of guy that if you were drowning fifty feet off shore, he'd throw you a thirty foot rope. Then Kissinger would go on TV the next night and say that the President had met you more than half-way.

Mort Sahl

#15. Gina. I wish to goodness that detestable thing had never set his foot inside our doors!

Henrik Ibsen

#16. Lasting achievement, whatever the endeavor, comes from a commitment to excellence every step of the way.

Ralph Marston