Eric Sevareid Famous Quotes
"The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness."
"Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor."
Dealing with network executives is like being nibbled to death by ducks.
Eric Sevareid Quotations
"Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender."
Andrew Schneider
"Being plied with fine food always puts me in mind of the slammer, cause the food was jumpin' in there too--high in fat but nice and salty. You know what the worst deprivation in there was My music. Radio belonged to my cell mate, the Blonde Hammer. He was into that jazz-fusion thing at the time. I tell you what, enough Spyro Gyra and you're hoping you'll get killed in a knife fight."
Barbara Hall
"It is occasionally possible to charge hell with a bucket of water, but against stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain."
Doris Fleeson
True philosophy invents nothing it merely establishes and describes what is.
Victor Cousin
Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother.
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
Laughter is by definition healthy.
Doris Lessing
Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
When you are down and out something always turns up-and it is usually the noses of your friends.
Orson Welles
"Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no fibs."
Oliver Goldsmith
Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.
Marcel Proust