Brian Williams Quotes

United States, Journalist
May 5, 1959

Brian Douglas Williams is an American journalist at NBC News, currently serving as an anchor on the cable network MSNBC and host of the network's nightly program, The 11th Hour with Brian Williams. Williams is known for his ten years as anchor and managing editor of NBC Nightly News, the evening news program of the NBC television network.

You are only as good as the coach thinks you are.

Brian Williams
- Good
Since light travels faster than sound, some people appear to be bright until you hear them speak.

Brian Williams
- People
- Light

What does it tell you that applications for guns since the shooting are up 41 percent in Colorado, and that our cameras found about 50 people in line at one gun shop yesterday outside Denver?

Brian Williams
- People
- Up
- Gun
People are hurting out there, perhaps they are ready to start a conversation about whether an AR-15 belongs in the hands of a citizen, whether a citizen should be able 6,000 rounds on the internet.

Brian Williams
- People
A person starts dying when they stop dreaming.

Brian Williams
- Stop
- Dying
When you make 'The Daily Show', it's usually not for a laurel, it's for a dart.

Brian Williams
- Daily
If you start pandering to young people, you're going to get accused of simply giving people what they want.

Brian Williams
- People
- Giving
As Israel prepares to enter, my position is well known. It is one that I have taken at previous Olympics. It is wrong that the IOC refuses to have a minute's silence for Israeli athletes that were slaughtered in Munich.

Brian Williams
- Taken
- Silence

My wife and children seem to like me quite a bit, and as long as that is true, I'm really OK.

Brian Williams
- Long
- Children
- True