Quotes About News Anchor

#1. I started out as a television news anchor but I wasn't very good at it. I think I was too positive. I wanted to begin every newscast by saying, 'Good evening, in the news tonight ... everything's great! Go to sleep. We'll let you know if anything important comes up.'

Bob Burg

#2. There's a rumor that NBC is going to have Tom Brokaw fill in temporarily as the NBC News anchor. When asked why, a network spokesperson said, 'Because the only other NBC person we have is Bill Cosby.'

Conan O'Brien

#3. And what if that news anchor is creepy? He's too smooth, and he has that hairpiece.

Leila Howland

#4. Hey, the ubiquitous Leak-Cam is to 2010 as the bottom-of-the-screen news ticker was to late 2001: What you're seeing beneath the news anchor or talking head may not actually include any new information, but you feel like you're watching something dramatic.

Jim Geraghty

#5. News anchor leaves CNN after tweets on Paris attack

Anonymous

#6. CBS news anchor Dan Rather has interviewed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. When asked what it was like to talk to a crazy man, Saddam said, 'It's not so bad.'

Conan O'Brien

#7. My life is a series of Hollywood orgies and Kabbalah center brunches with the cast of Friends. At least that's what my handlers tell me. I'm actually too valuable to live my own life and spend most of my days in a vegetable crisper to remain fake news anchor fresh.

Jon Stewart

#8. Most people would think if you're the prime news anchor, then you should sort of be this Edward R. Murrow, Clark Kent guy with the family and 2.5 kids - or the perky, cute yet smart Katie Couric.

Don Lemon

#9. The news anchor is exactly that - an anchor, a center, a focus.

Jessica Savitch

#10. The competition is very stiff. Brian Williams has proved himself as a credible news anchor (at NBC), and Bob Schieffer has done the same (at CBS). But as Peter and Tom (Brokaw) and Dan have always said about the competition, it makes us all better.

Bill Vaughan

#11. The main job requirement for a network-news anchor is thinking it's the only important job in the world. This is a field where solemn gravitas isn't a drawback; it's the whole point.

Rob Sheffield

#12. I can be really silly, but I never get to do that. I'm always playing on-the-nose characters, professionals - lawyers, a serious news anchor, people with a really focused energy, which can become a cliched type.

Nicole Ari Parker

#13. The television was on Florida Cable News. A gray-haired man behind the anchor desk reported near tragedy at a state motor vehicle office, where a man who had failed the eye exam pulled a gun and fired fifteen shots at the staff, hitting nobody.

Tim Dorsey

#14. Yet, all things must pass, but especially time, and with the months and then the years, I came slowly to have a place in the scheme of things.

Robin Hobb

#15. Sex is not an exam and you do not need an orgasm to pass.

Merlyn Gabriel Miller

#16. There is no illusion greater than fear.

Lao-Tzu

#17. In college, I was a weather anchor for the local news. I would 'borrow' my forecast from The Weather Channel.

Emily Procter

#18. He no longer saw distance in terms of miles. He measured it with his remembering

Rachel Joyce

#19. We must be willing to fail and to appreciate the truth that often Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived.

M. Scott Peck

#20. Sweet be the glances
we exchange,Our faces
showing true concord;
Enshrine me in your
heart and let one spirit
dwell within us.

Atharva Veda 7.36

#21. I cannot sit and think; books think for me.

Charles Lamb

#22. Having a child who is struggling doesn't make you a bad parent, just as being a child who is struggling doesn't make your child a bad kid.

Ann Douglas

#23. 'm thrilled to be joining the incredible team at ABC News. Being asked to anchor 'This Week' and the superb tradition started by David Brinkley, is a tremendous and rare honor, and I look forward to discussing the great domestic and international issues of the day.

Christiane Amanpour

#24. And a mistake made twice isn't really a mistake at all.

C.M. Stunich

#25. Men were notorious for their acts of disloyalty.

Margaret Way

#26. It's not always silence responsible for the breakdown
...

Aditya Chandel

#27. When I first anchored in 1970, I had never seen a woman anchor a news show.

Jessica Savitch

#28. I worked in three local news markets and in every single one of them, they said: 'You're a lousy anchor. We would love to renew your contract and have you be our lead reporter here, but we're not going to have you anchor.'

Elizabeth Vargas

#29. Acting with fear is called courage.

Ronda Rousey

#30. We probably do not have a large enough industry here to ably support the independent filmmaker to move in and out. Much of the industry is based on full-time jobs here, institutionalised jobs.

Ann Macbeth

#31. I just started playing guitar and started singing and started working on this act that I would call 'Don McLean' when I was probably in high school.

Don McLean

#32. The current wisdom now is that if the three networks are covering the news the same way the difference is the anchor people. I think that won't be true in the future.

Roone Arledge