There are few ironclad rules of diplomacy but to one there is no exception. When an official reports that talks were useful, it can safely be concluded that nothing was accomplished.
Secret 9.6. When writing a contact report, the term 'intense vocalization' should be used in place of words like 'moan,' 'pant' and 'sigh.
I approach writing stories as a recorder. I think of my role as some kind of reporting device - recording and projecting.
[after watching a damning NBC special report] Jim Garrison: At least my reputation is still fine with people watching "Laugh In".
I've never conspired to overthrow the government; all I did was report on the Arab Spring and suggest that something similar might happen in Ethiopia if the authoritarian regime didn't reform.
Max Vandenburg: Where's my weather report? Max Vandenburg: [Liesel shows a snow ball] You're full of wonders.
I don't want my poems to be sentimental, though I do acknowledge that sentiment is probably rather under-reported in a lot of people's feelings a lot of the time.
One of the advantages of the book's having been out there for more than a quarter century is that there's been time for people to report back on what it's done for them.
I try to spend a lot of time with people outside my direct reports. The view from the top is totally distorted. If you only spend time with your directs, you have no perspective on what's really going on.
It's time to stop defending a system that is clearly in dire need of reform, stop issuing reports and setting up new roadblocks, and start providing Americans with prescription drugs that are both safe and affordable.
My employer was never at any time aware of anything in my past beyond the writing I did, because, frankly, it isn't relevant to the job I was asked to do, which was to be a reporter.
While many people think that we as reporters are whining and that this is a time of war, we are really the conveyors of truth in a very critical time and people need to know that truth.
Like the vast majority of my constituents, I continue to be concerned about record profits reported by petroleum companies at a time when consumers are paying record high prices for gasoline.
I used to have trust with reporters. Give them scoops. Those were the old days. It's very strange, when you give a story and it doesn't come out the right way.
The problem with not having a camera is that one must trust the analysis of a reporter who's telling you what occurred in the courtroom. You have to take into consideration the filtering effect of that person's own biases.
Reporter at Precinct: [as Northcott is being taken into custody] How did you avoid capture? Gordon Northcott: Well, I didn't, did I?
Reporter: [at beginning of news reel on Charles Foster Kane's death] In Xanadu did Kubla Khan a stately pleasure-dome decree.
Cameron: [after Christine's been molested] Who are you calling? Christine: I'm gonna report their asses, sons of bitches.
International press reporter: The Phooey has just referred to the Jewish people.
Crapgame: [about Oddball's Captain] He hasn't been reported as dead yet - I've been collecting his whiskey.
[as Rufus and John watch Agatha's account of Anne Lively's murder] Rufus Riley: And, like my life, everything is good.
