Quotes of: Capitol-hill Keyword

My father used to get me to read the newspaper to him, as if I was a radio. I would stand there and read the 'Times.'

Annalena McAfee

Having cancer is one thing; looking like you have cancer is another thing. It's a disease that already takes so much.

Amy Robach

We tell the public which way the cat is jumping. The public will take care of the cat.

Arthur Hays Sulzberger

The United States can tell you all about what's wrong with the British, to say nothing of the Russians.

Arthur Hays Sulzberger

Rearranging furniture, adding some candles, or making even small tweaks can really make the difference.

Anthea Turner

American writers, at least those of us who are fortunate enough to support ourselves in the field, are by and large a lucky lot.

Bryan Burrough

I don't know the figures, but Hollywood must buy 100 rights for every movie that actually gets made.

Bryan Burrough

After crossing the Smoky Hill River, I felt comparatively safe as this was the last stream I had to cross.

Buffalo Bill

Politics can be likened to driving at night over unfamiliar hills and mountains. Close attention must be paid to what the beam can reach and the next bend.

David Trimble

There is a type of snobbish, pompous journalist who thinks that the only news that has any validity is war, famine, pestilence or politics. I don't come from that school.

Piers Morgan

People in London think of London as the center of the world, whereas New Yorkers think the world ends three miles outside of Manhattan.

Toby Young

The moment I'm perceived to be even a tiny bit successful, my career will go down the pan.

Toby Young

Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world.

Vincent Canby

The difference between a top-flight creative man and the hack is his ability to express powerful meanings indirectly.

Vance Packard

That really is my trademark. Day to day, week in, week out. If something happens and the crowd roars, I shut up.

Vin Scully

Lie detectors sometimes work because people believe they work, deterring the wrong people from applying for jobs in the first place, or prompting admissions of guilt during interrogations.

Bill Dedman

To conflict journalists, a tiny, tight-knit tribe, tragedy is practically an occupational requirement: our work requires us to seek it out, measure it, contextualize it, and chronicle it.

Bobby Ghosh

It's just that what's important there is different there than what's important is here. Here, people care that you wrote a book or that you work in the media.

Chuck Klosterman

Start-ups like UniversityNow, a network of low-cost, online colleges, allows students to work at their own pace and pay a few hundred dollars a month for a degree.

Dan Rather

You can work hard to sharpen your talent, to get better at whatever it is that you do, and I think that's what it comes back to.

Ed Bradley

Once when I was working for the Daily News, I was summoned back to work from vacation because Donald Trump announced he was getting a divorce.

Gail Collins