Quotes About Broadcast News

#1. I've done it with Broadcast News-where there was no finish line, there was no agenda that I had to move all the characters to this point, that I was sort of open to what happens.

James L. Brooks

#2. The movies that I love and model after, like 'Annie Hall,' 'When Harry Met Sally,' and in particular for me, 'Broadcast News,' are the tone of life, which isn't a setup punch-line every two minutes.

Jason Segel

#3. The ones [comedies] that I always liked, whether it's Terms of Endearment, Broadcast News, or Fast Times of Ridgemont High, they were all about two hours, or a little bit over two hours. With that extra 15 or 20 minutes, you can get to real character and you're not just stuck in plot.

Judd Apatow

#4. Listening to a news broadcast is like smoking a cigarette and crushing the butt in the ashtray.

Milan Kundera

#5. The 'Evening News' is going to have a long run, both as a broadcast and as a presence online and on cellphones. It is a franchise with a very rich tradition.

Steve Capus

#6. The best thing that could ever happen to any one of us is that all our sins would be broadcast on the 5 o' clock news.

Derek Webb

#7. Count it one of the highest virtues upon earth to educate faithfully the children of others, which so few, and scarcely any, do by their own.

Martin Luther

#8. The New York Times and the Washington Post each contain roughly 100,000 words a day - about as many as this book. A typical NBC Nightly News broadcast contains 3,600 words.

Leonard Downie Jr.

#9. The network and local TV angle of broadcast television has received a black eye for not properly debating within the news issues that should be debated, instead of shuffling them of to television advertising.

Mark E. Hyman

#10. It will finally be broadcast on the national news, to outrage, and to an instant forgetting.

Teju Cole

#11. It is every producer's dream to be part of a dedicated, hard-working team that produces an outstanding broadcast like the 'CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley.'

Steve Capus

#12. Customers are ninjas now. They are stealthily evaluating you right under your nose.

Jay Baer

#13. People who put my paintings on their walls are putting their values on their walls: faith, family, home, a simpler way of living, the beauty of nature, quiet, tranquillity, peace, joy, hope. They beckon you into this world that provides an alternative to your nightly news broadcast.

Thomas Kincade

#14. I honestly think I've gotten taller since I started doing Pilates. And my posture is totally different - no more slouching!

Sarah Rafferty

#15. Some days the competition would beat me and I'd go home thinking awful thoughts, want to hide under the bed, depressed. But of course, in the news business, when you're working a daily news broadcast, you get your victories and defeats every day.

Sam Donaldson

#16. Traditional broadcast media seems old-fashioned and vague to me. When I watch television news, I'm aware of what skilled journalists they are, but I find it hard because of the corny way they present it.

Ira Glass

#17. You see the film, you might be entertained, and if it's not a great film, it loses its power very quickly. I think even simply acceptable books stay with us a lot longer.

Paul Auster

#18. I do everything from home. I broadcast commentaries for CBS News Radio every day - from home, on a disk that I mail in. I write a weekly op-ed piece for the 'New York Daily News,' and any books or plays or movies that I'm crazy enough to write, I do that from home.

Charles Grodin

#19. I thought something bad might have happened to him. It's nice to know he just doesn't want to talk to me.

Sylvain Neuvel

#20. You don't need incredible resources to impact another human being. You can make a difference by being conscious, by thinking of creative ways to make others feel good about themselves.

Lucy Kaylin

#21. Music is the major form of communication. It's the commonest vibration, the people's news broadcast, especially for kids.

Richie Havens

#22. When CNN does a story and then says, 'Tweet us what you think' - why? Why does it matter what I think? Why should my thoughts be broadcast on a national news program? It's enough for me to just sit and listen and learn.

Jason Alexander

#23. You can find good reasons to scuttle your equities in every morning paper and on every broadcast of the nightly news.

Peter Lynch

#24. She's a veritable siren, if you don't mind a grumpy woman who enjoys wielding a knife with alarming skill.

Grace Burrowes

#25. I sing the best when I'm really in my voice. It's kind of like I'm meditating but I sort of imagine my voice as a physical thing. I see colours, I feel it moving out of me and I try to tap into images that I was tapping into when I was writing the song.

Brett Dennen

#26. Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast, the disk jockey is not allowed to talk.

Fran Lebowitz

#27. The idea of a news broadcast once was to find someone with information and broadcast it. The idea now is to find someone with ignorance and spread it around.

P. J. O'Rourke

#28. CITIZENS, we bring good news! In your kitchens, in your offices, on your factory floors - wherever you hear this broadcast, turn up the volume! The first success we have to report is that our Grass into Meat Campaign is a complete

Adam Johnson

#29. I am a fool, but I know I'm a fool and that makes me smarter than you.

Socrates

#30. Nobody wants to hear Metallica at lunchtime.

Michael Fassbender

#31. [There was] only one news channel, overseen by a bland and complexly multicultural board of advisors. It broadcast in fifteen languages and was, as a rule, interesting in none of them.

Robert Charles Wilson