Judith Miller Quotes

Reporters, even flawed reporters, should not be jailed for protecting even flawed sources.

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• I've never been a fan of pretense or procrastination. After all, our state is defined by its independent, outspoken spirit.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Spirit
  • Independent
  • Procrastination

• I once pitched this show that was just like 'Quantum Leap,' in terms of the set-up, and I got a pass because they said 'Quantum Leap' didn't work, even though it was on for six or seven seasons. You can't say 'Quantum Leap' didn't work!

  

  Adam Green
  • Up
  • Work
  • Seasons

• I've been working on 'The New York Times' crossword puzzle on the subway. I can make it until about Wednesday.

  

  Eddie Kaye Thomas
  • New York
  • Wednesday
  • Puzzle

• That was in 1994, July, 1994, and I can remember that like it was yesterday too because it was the culmination of a childhood dream to finally be laying on the launch pad inside a space shuttle and getting ready to be launched into space. The impression of going into a space shuttle is that it looks like a brand new simulator. We spend so many hours inside a simulator that everything is very familiar. Every switch, the seats, the way things work, but the vehicle, the actual spacecraft looks brand new because it hasn't been used nearly as much as the simulators.

  

  Leroy Chiao
  • Work
  • Remember
  • Dream

• Some people wonder why they can't have faith for healing. They feed their body three hot meals a day, and their spirit one cold snack a week.

  

  F. F. Bosworth
  • People
  • Why
  • Faith

• The phases of fire are craving and satiety.

  

  Heraclitus
  • Fire
  • Phases
  • Craving

• Few diseases present greater difficulties in the way of diagnosis than malignant endocarditis, difficulties which in many cases are practi- cally insurmountable. It is no disparagement to the many skilled physicians who have put their cases upon record to say that, in fully one-half the diagnosis was made post mortem.

  

  William Osler
  • Cases
  • Difficulty
  • Diagnosis

• The beginning of every war is like opening the door into a dark room. One never knows what is hidden in the darkness.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Dark
  • Door
  • Room

• Though inclination be as sharp as will, My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent, And, like a man to double business bound, I stand in pause where I shall first begin, And both neglect.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Men
  • Business
  • Strong

• The only thing more difficult than being a God is being Thom Yorke. Thom Yorke has all these responsibilities, to save the planet. To save the world. To redeem Thom Yorke.

  

  Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
  • World
  • Responsibility
  • Difficult

• There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Fact
  • Deceptive

• The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.

  

  Henrik Ibsen
  • Power
  • Accomplish
  • Great Secret

• An artist has to go to every extreme, to stretch his sensibility through excess and suffering in order to feel and to communicate more. I have always been fascinated by blood. Pain can be vitalizing; it gives intensity in the place of vagueness and emptiness. If we don't suffer, how do we know that we live?

  

  Sebastian Horsley
  • Giving
  • Pain
  • Artist

• There has to be a song. There are too many dark nights, too many troublesome days, and too many wearisome miles. Somewhere deep in the forgotten corner of one’s heart- there has to be a song. Like a cool, clear drink of water and like the gentle warmth of sunshine, and like the tender love of a child, there has to be a song!

  

  Bob Benson
  • Love
  • Song
  • Child

• Death is a slave's freedom.

  

  Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
  • Slavery
  • Slave

• To reporters the day after his accession to the presidency, April 13, 1945: When they told me yesterday what had happened, I felt like the moon, the stars and all the planets had fallen on me.

  

  Harry S Truman
  • Reporters
  • Presidency
  • Accession

• Reporters, even flawed reporters, should not be jailed for protecting even flawed sources.

  

  Judith Miller
  • Sources
  • Protecting
  • Reporters