A good heavy book holds you down. It's an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having another gin and tonic.
In college, I was a weather anchor for the local news. I would 'borrow' my forecast from The Weather Channel.
If someone says you're a reporter and doesn't want you to anchor then you wonder why you worked so hard at it.
I believe a man is better anchored who has a belief in the Supreme Being.
America is this incredible mosaic of immigrants, so people really want to be anchored in some kind of culture as well as the one they are living in.
It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought.
Do you know what White House correspondents call actors who pose as reporters? Anchors.
I have never in my life walked with a harness. The weight of the tether, makes it feel like I'm dragging an anchor behind me.
To win respect, the networks seem to feel they have to keep absurdly overstating their anchors' reporting cred.
A lot of these angles are really about trying to mimic broadcast sports angles in order to anchor the scene, to sort of normalize it before it becomes abstracted.
She's a sailboat and I'm an anchor, pulling us both down.
Usually, when I walk on a wire, I inspect the anchor point on both sides before crossing.
If words had weight, a single sentence from Death would have anchored a ship.
The TV weatherman has always been one of the best, most secure jobs. They change anchors, they change the set, producers come and go. But the weather person hangs on forever!
When Nirvana became popular, you could very easily slip and get lost during that storm. I fortunately had really heavy anchors - old friends, family.
TV journalism is a much more collaborative, horizontal business than print reporting. It has to be, because of the logistics. Anchors are wholly dependent on producers to do all the hustling.
Women fight for democracy and engage in the world. But they shouldn't try and be copying men and be masculine; they should anchor on the home and build on those fundamentals.
It is our hope that the AP program can serve as an anchor for increasing rigor in our schools. Rigor can be maintained while increasing student participation.
The anchors now made are contrived so as to sink into the ground as soon as they reach it, and to hold a great strain before they can be loosened or dislodged from their station.
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.
With the fragmentation of television audiences and the advent of cable and on-demand services, the prestige of being an anchor is not what it was in the days of Walter Cronkite.
