Jessica Savitch Quotes

News events cannot be controlled, nor can newscasts be mapped out like entertainment shows.

Jessica Savitch

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• We take the show very seriously, but we don't take ourselves seriously.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Show
  • Take
  • Seriously

• My mom is from Cuba, my dad is from Spain, and I grew up in Miami. So there's maybe a little more flair in me than typical Silicon Valley types.

  

  Eddy Cue
  • Me
  • Dad
  • Mom

• I don't make any distinction between a popular TV series or blockbuster film and doing Shakespeare. They're different, but as long as the material is good and the intention is honourable, it's all the same to me.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Good
  • Different
  • Long

• 'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• Corporate nationalism to me is a little bit like what would have happened if Hitler had won. It's scary stuff. It's totalitarianism in a different from, under a different flavour.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Different
  • Me
  • Scary

• When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments.

  

  Maggie Gallagher
  • Culture
  • Desire
  • Marriage

• As a kid, I always liked reading stories where I had a power-projection fantasy. I wanted to be inside of a story where I had power and influence, was going to rise to power, was going to somehow influence my society.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Power
  • Society
  • Reading

• Despite the demands of this job, one of the things my wife and I try to do is to spend time together alone. And one of the things we really enjoy doing together is seeing a good movie.

  

  Warren Christopher
  • Time
  • Good
  • Job

• I'm shocked at being recognized.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Being
  • Recognized
  • Shocked

• I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Work
  • Art
  • Business

• I feel good. I think everything went good.

  

  Hal Sutton
  • Good
  • Think
  • Feel Good

• I think I have the best job in the world. Seventy-one percent of the planet is covered by water, we've explored less than five percent of the ocean, and there are so many fabulous discoveries that have yet to be made.

  

  Edith Widder
  • World
  • Job
  • Water

• I can make dressing - or stuffing. Y'all call it stuffing up here, we call it dressing down there. It's really good dressing. That family recipe was passed on, and I love to make that.

  

  Edie Brickell
  • Up
  • Good
  • Family

• If I say I've got two versions of Word - that old one from 1982 that's perfect, with zero defects; or the new one that's got all this cool new stuff, but there might be a few bugs in it - people always want the new one. But I wouldn't want them to operate a plane I was on with software that happened to be the latest greatest release!

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • Perfect
  • Cool

• Privatization is more efficient and effective in some cases, but not in intelligence.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • More
  • Intelligence
  • Some

• There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. And one of these is the history of political power. This is elevated into the history of the world.

  

  Karl Popper
  • Life
  • World
  • Power

• If you want to be remembered as great, if you want to be a legend, you have to go out there every single day and do stuff.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Great
  • Single
  • Day

• I believe that all nations - strong and weak alike - must adhere to standards that govern the use of force. I - like any head of state - reserve the right to act unilaterally if necessary to defend my nation. Nevertheless, I am convinced that adhering to standards, international standards, strengthens those who do, and isolates and weakens those who don't.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Believe
  • Strong

• There are many sorts of lies. You could fill a shop with them. To be sure, lies are terribly common.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Lies
  • Common
  • Sorts

• The success-haters. That's what I call them -- the people who have never got what they want and turned sour on everybody who has. The world's full of them. As soon as you've made good they begin to watch for you to fail.

  

  Zoe Akins
  • World
  • Made
  • Failing

• On October 28th, 1887, I became the mother of a girl baby, the very image of its father, at least that is what he said, but who has the temper of its mother.

  

  Calamity Jane
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Girl

• I was brought up in an environment where my parents expressed their financial concerns in front of their children.

  

  Natalie Imbruglia
  • Up
  • Children
  • Parents

• I know, being the odd one out can feel brutal. But, rest assured, it's also wonderful - because your desire to do things differently isn't 'uncool.' In fact, it's the exact opposite.

  

  Kathryn Minshew
  • Desire
  • Rest

• News events cannot be controlled, nor can newscasts be mapped out like entertainment shows.

  

  Jessica Savitch