Bob Schieffer Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.
-
For me, the greatest fault would be to tell somebody something I'm not.
-
One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.
-
You can only paint through your experience and sub-consciousness.
-
Good argument is intended to persuade another.
-
Liars do look you in the eye. They do not always stutter, stammer, blush or fidget.
-
Instead of ideological objectives of a political nature, today we are faced with ideological objectives of economic nature.
-
On my desk, I always have a lemon or a lime drying. I love the fragrance. Also, a Staedtler eraser, a brush for the eraser and a pencil sharpener.
-
It's probably an intellectual weakness, but I look at the stars, and I say, 'There's something bigger than us out there.'
-
It doesn't make any sense... that's why I trust it!
-
I gravitate toward edgy, intense, dark films that just grab you by the throat.
-
The Corona Extra brand was launched in Austin, Texas. From Austin, where it was exclusively for three or four months, it became more widely available in that state and in others, primarily in the southwest and western United States.
-
If you don't have a competitive advantage, don't compete.
-
It's obvious that the key problem facing humanity in the coming century is how to bring a better quality of life - for 8 billion or more people - without wrecking the environment entirely in the attempt.
-
People are thrown off by someone who looks feminine, but is also strong. It's not that pretty girls aren't smart, it's that women aren't strong.
-
I have confidence that we can form this kind of national community.
-
There are common-sense things that your government could do that would give Americans more opportunities to succeed. Why don’t we do it? Because powerful special interests and the tendency to put ideology ahead of political progress have led to gridlock in Congress.
-
The Negro League had some of the best players in history. Satchel Paige was probably one of the best pitchers in the history of baseball, and many believe catcher Josh Gibson was a better hitter than Babe Ruth.
-
We don't see very far in the future, we are very focused on one idea at a time, one problem at a time, and all these are incompatible with rationality as economic theory assumes it.
-
[On returning to the country] I went back to where I belonged.
-
I like the 'Simpsons' pinball machines. Those are pretty great.
-
When I was a little boy I did not, of course, trouble much about my appearance.
-
I used to be a print reporter.
