Jessica Savitch Quotes

News events are like Texas weather. If you don't like it, wait a minute.

Jessica Savitch

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• I don't know about you, but I think blankets are the best, especially your own personal blanket.

  

  Laura Marano
  • Think
  • Know
  • Best

• To be slandered the way I get slandered is really uncalled for, but life goes on.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Life
  • Way
  • Life Goes On

• The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

  

  Wayne Gretzky
  • Work
  • Day
  • Dog

• I sing to Jesus for Jesus now. This gives me pure joy... worship!

  

  Vanity
  • Me
  • Joy
  • Jesus

• Brands like Starbucks came along and talked about their brand as itself being a community, the idea that Starbucks is what they like to call a 'third place,' which is not their idea; it's the idea of basic citizenry needing a place that is not work, that is not home, where citizens gather.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Work
  • Home
  • Community

• I was afraid of the internet... because I couldn't type.

  

  Jack Welch
  • Internet
  • Afraid
  • Computers

• My kids always say to me, 'Can we watch TV?' I say, 'Absolutely!' because then I can get something done. But then they say, and I wait for it, 'But can you watch with us?' My moment of freedom vanishes. So not only do I not think TV's that great and I hate sitting in front of it, but I have to with them.

  

  Natascha McElhone
  • Great
  • Done
  • Kids

• I went from being a jock to a hippie. It was a very clear-cut decision. I had to be one or the other. I had to forsake that other aspect of myself. Or thought that I had to, which is regrettable. Quickly, I was back in the pine trees with the hippies, listening to my Jimi Hendrix and my Janis Joplin and turning on, tuning in, and dropping out.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Myself
  • Decision
  • Listening

• Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Like
  • Logic
  • Sword

• I really am a woman at peace.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Peace
  • Woman
  • Really

• I've failed once or twice real big, independent.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Real
  • Independent
  • Big

• The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders are no more. I am not a Virginian but an American.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • American
  • Distinctions
  • New Yorkers

• No no there wasn't any planned 14th season, we all saw the writing on the wall. The ratings had been going down and so fourth, that curve goes on every show and in everybody's life.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Wall

• I'm influenced by all types of music.

  

  Flo Rida
  • Music
  • Influenced
  • Types

• On Nov. 5, 2012, my friend Elliott Carter died in New York at the age of 103. For me, he was and remains one of the most interesting figures of music history in the past century.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • History
  • Age

• It's an endless proving of myself, that I really am a musician, that I have something to offer in the room. That women can be musicians, women can be rock stars, women can be more than an objectified idea of a pop star.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Women
  • Myself
  • Rock

• 'TableTop' is packed with gaming celebrities and independent game creators. This is a huge subculture that really doesn't have a vehicle to rally around or educate people with.

  

  Felicia Day
  • People
  • Game
  • Independent

• I would be lying if I told you that I hadn't had aspirations to run for a statewide office.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Lying
  • Run
  • Office

• My makeup wasn't smeared, I wasn't disheveled, I behaved politely, and I never finished off a bottle, so how could I be alcoholic?

  

  Betty Ford
  • Makeup

• Fort Worth is friendly; it's still a Texas town. It's the most Texas city in Texas.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • City
  • Texas
  • Worth

• This is the first time in my lifetime that a president has been from a city. From a place I would go. He's from Chicago; I love Chicago! I go there! Would I ever go to Wasilla, Alaska? Or Hope, Arkansas? Or Plains, Georgia? Or Crawford, Texas? Not on a bet! There's a reason small towns are small: no one wants to live there.

  

  Bill Maher
  • Time
  • Live
  • Hope

• I'd been on a road trip right out of college, with a buddy of mine. It was uneventful. We didn't get laid. Although one time it was about 800 degrees and we were in Texas. We had shorts on and nothing else and somehow a motorcycle cop pulls up beside me and says, 'Come on, get on it, get on, go, go, go!' So I speeded up and it turns out we're in a huge state funeral. There are about 40 black Cadillacs in a row and then a green van called Mr Greenjeans, with two guys with no clothes in it.

  

  John Travolta
  • Up
  • Time
  • Guy

• It's a very frightening time when something as basic as due process is seen as somehow radical.

  

  John Cusack
  • Time

• News events are like Texas weather. If you don't like it, wait a minute.

  

  Jessica Savitch
  • Texas