“I finished high school, moved to Nashville for college, and set out to break into the music business. Every night when I called home with news of my experiences, my mom and dad would encourage me to keep taking those small steps.” HomeSchoolNightStepsBreakCollegeMomDadNewsHigh SchoolMovedMy MomFinishedEvery NightMusic BusinessNashvilleMom And DadSmall Steps Author:Trisha Yearwood
“My parents were really political. The news was very important in our home. We basically had dinner every night while watching the news, and then we'd discuss it with our parents.” ImportantHomePoliticalNightParentNewsDinnerEvery Night Author:Al Franken
“The News-writer lies down at Night in great Tranquillity, upon a piece of News which corrupts before Morning, and which he is obliged to throw away as soon as he awakes.” LyingNightMorningPiecesNewsJournalismObligedTranquillity Author:Jean de la Bruyere
“I am not asking for government censorship or any other kind of censorship. I am asking whether a kind of censorship already exists when the news that forty million Americans receive each night is determined by a handful of men responsible only to their corporate employers and filtered through a handful of commentators who admit to their own set of biases.” MenKindGovernmentNightMillionsNewsAskingResponsibleDeterminedCorporateFortyCensorshipEmployersHandfulCommentators Book:The Impudent Snobs: Agnew Vs. the Intellectual Establishment Source: The Impudent Snobs: Agnew Vs. the Intellectual Establishment
“I think what drove me away from being a reporter was an inability to accept that the world came in neat stories. Every story you have to report is just part of something bigger. The news isn't what happened last night - it's some cumulative thing that's happened over centuries. I found it hard to think of one event and drag it out of a bubbling pot and present it as the story that explains it all.” ThinkingWorldHardStoriesLastsNightFoundAcceptingHappenedCenturyEventsNewsBiggerReportsPotDragReportersInabilityLast NightNeatCumulative Author:Terry Pratchett
“The big news is the midterm elections. Last night Republicans picked up a dozen seats in the House to give them their biggest majority since World War II. Or as they put it, 'Time to party like it's 1939!'” WorldGivingWarBigsLastsNightHousePartyRepublicanNewsElectionMajorityWar Of The WorldsSeatsWorld War IiDozenWorld War ILast NightMidtermsMidterm ElectionsBig News Author:Jimmy Fallon
“Big news from last night's Republican debate, you guys. It turns out George Bush was actually the smart Texas governor.” BigsLastsNightGuyTurnsRepublicanNewsSmartDebateTexasGovernorsLast NightBig News Author:Jimmy Fallon
“I see a pretty bright line between analysis and opinion. And so, to that end, my goal on Friday nights is to try to assemble the smartest reporters who are available to me that week who have been involved in covering the news.” TryingHas BeensEndsNightGoalLinesOpinionWeekInvolvedNewsAvailableAnalysisReportersFridayCoveringFriday Night Author:Gwen Ifill
“Donald Trump is not running for president. This is devastating news for Trump's supporters - all of whom are late night comedians.” RunningNightPresidentTrumpLateNewsComedianSupporterLate Night Author:Conan O'Brien
“Millions who could not follow closely or accurately the main events of the War looked day after day in the papers for the fortunes of Mafeking, and when finally the news of its relief was flashed throughout the world, the streets of London became impassable, and the floods of sterling, cockney patriotism were released in such a deluge of unbridled, delirious joy as was never witnessed again till Armistace Night, 1918.” WorldWarJoyNightMillionsStreetsEventsPaperNewsFortuneLondonReliefFloodPapersSterlingDeliriousDelugeCockneys Book:Great Contemporaries Source: Great Contemporaries
“How much of the national news that you report to the public each night consists of information you've actually gone out and dug up on your own?” NightGoneInformationNewsReports Author:Johnny Carson
“A great deal of our ratings on the morning news are people who died during the night with their TV on.” PeopleNightDealsMorningTvsNewsDiedRating Author:Bob Schieffer
“Depression must be avoided, no matter what the cost. Depression is lying on the Edwardian couch for six months, too tired to unlace your shoes. Depression is awakening each morning feeling as if someone near and dear and closely related died the night before. Bad news. Don't tempt depression.” IfsMatterFeelingsLyingNightMorningMonthsCostSixNewsDiedNo Matter WhatTiredShoesDearAwakeningRelatedSix MonthsAvoidedCouchesBad News Book:Social Blunders: A Novel Source: Social Blunders: A Novel
“I can't stop some idiot from crashing into a building or blowing up a bus, I can only be your dad and give you a few pure truths. Number one, duct tape will save your life. Number two, Tupac is alive, but I need you to keep that on the DL because of Suge. And number three, don't be afraid of anything - except the television news because they're lying to you every night.” NeedsGivingI CanTwoLyingNightThreeNumbersAliveTelevisionBuildingDadPureNewsIdiotBusTapeEvery NightNeed YouI Need YouYour DadBlowing UpDuct TapeNumber ThreeTelevision News Author:Christopher Titus
“I didn't get how big it was until I went home, turned on the television and saw it on all the news, and later that night on the front pages of all the newspapers. Then I got it.” HomeBigsNightSawsFrontsTelevisionNewsPagesNewspapers Author:Paul Simon
“My personal beliefs were shaped more by experience and by watching the news when I was young: images of angelic-looking college students in Mississippi crying like the world was ending because black people were being allowed on their campus; the slow mounting horror of Vietnam on the evening news every night; sitting with my parents in front of the TV and being appalled at the way the Chicago police were treating the protesters during the '68 Democratic convention. Being eyed with suspicion because of my age and the way I wore my hair.” PeopleWorldWayAgeYoungNightBeliefParentBlackFrontsCryStudentsCollegeTvsHairHorrorNewsSittingPoliceDemocraticEveningChicagoBlack PeopleVietnamConventionsEvery NightSuspicionMississippiCampusAngelicCollege StudentsPersonal Beliefs Author:James Vance
“The first show that my dad and my mom did together was for, was a comedy series, a short form that went in the middle of late-night news, and then through all of their career, it was always the "Ed Sullivan Show," it was a variety act, my dad was on the "Jimmy Dean Show" for a few years.” YearsFirstsShowsTogetherFormNightCareersComedyMiddleMomDadLateNewsSeriesMy DadMy MomVarietyJimmyDeanLate NightEd Sullivan Author:Brian Henson
“I did everything when I started. In Miami I did news, I did weather, I did sports, I did disk-jockeying. And I did a sports talk show every week - every Saturday night.” ShowsNightSportsWeekNewsWeatherSaturdayMiamiSaturday NightTalk ShowsDisk Author:Larry King
“[T]he Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar Left, and black people. You understand what I'm saying? We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the war or black. But by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.” PeopleKnowsTwoWarHomeLyingNightCoursesHouseLeftBlackCommunityWhiteLeaderEnemyBreakDrugNewsMeetingsCampaignsEveningIllegalWhite HouseBlack PeopleAntiwarMarijuanaAssociatesHippieHeroinVilify Author:John Ehrlichman
“I don't watch cable news at night. So I can honestly tell you that I am not in a funk, I am not depressed, I'm not suicidal, I'm not thinking it's over.” ThinkingI CanNightWatchesNewsHonestlySuicidalCablesFunkCable News Author:Rush Limbaugh
“In 1996 or 1997, out of nowhere, Fox News comes on and it's on channel 360 on Direct TV, and out of 300 million Americans, on every single night, anywhere from 3 to 5 million watch it, we're talking about at no more than 2 percent of the American public is watching Fox at any given moment. Yet, ABC, CBS, NBC, the New York Times, the institutional left, CNN, MSNBC, the record companies, Hollywood, all seem to be committed towards aligning their minds and their money and their other resources to try to shut up Fox News.” TryingMindMomentsSeemsNightLeftGivenCompanyTalkingWatchesMillionsRecordsNew YorkTvsNewsPercentResourcesDirectHollywoodCommittedShut UpFoxesNew York TimesRecord CompaniesCnnFox NewsNbc Author:Andrew Breitbart
“My mom is from Jamaica and she was going to school in the morning, and in the evening she was working, and at night she would go to night school and then come in and go to sleep. So she would never watch the news and stuff like that and she didn't know what crack was. She didn't know nothing about it, but when I told her I was selling crack, she threatened to kick me out of the house. And then I just started paying for stuff - paying her bills and giving her money, so she'd just tell me to be careful because there was nothing she could do to stop it.” KnowsGivingSchoolNightHouseStuffSleepWatchesMorningMomNewsBillsCarefulMy MomSellingEveningKicksCracksBe CarefulThreatenedGoing To SleepJamaica Author:The Notorious B.I.G.
“That's what the news is: You turn on the news every night, whatever you watch, and you're expecting to see things that you didn't know happened. And that's not what it is.” KnowsNightTurnsWatchesHappenedNewsExpectingEvery NightTurn-on Author:Rush Limbaugh
“We are seeing every night on the television news now a nature hike through the Book of Revelation. These climate-related extreme weather events have convinced the vast majority of people that the scientists have been right for a long time. We have to address this.” PeopleLongHas BeensBookNightSeeingEventsTelevisionNewsLong TimeScientistMajorityClimateExtremesConvincedWeatherRelatedRevelationsAddressesEvery NightTelevision NewsBook Of RevelationExtreme Weather Author:Al Gore
“I live in Spain. Oscars are something that are on TV Sunday night. Basically, very late at night. You don't watch, you just read the news after who won or who lost.” NightLostWatchesTvsLateNewsSundayOscarsSpainSunday Night Author:Javier Bardem
“Every night I watch the nightly news. It's funded by the pharmaceutical companies. Virtually every ad is a drug ad. They get their say every night on the nightly news through advertising.” NightCompanyWatchesDrugNewsAdvertisingAdsEvery NightPharmaceuticalPharmaceutical Companies Author:Michael Moore
“I cannot improve on those spoken for many years by a true legend who preceded me at CBS News. He would say, simply, 'good night, and good luck.'” YearsNightNewsLuckLegendsGood LuckGood NightGood Night And Good Luck Author:Mike Wallace
“The news of life is carried via telephone. A baby's birth, a couple engaged, a tragic car accident on a late night highway - most milestones of the human journey, good or bad, are foreshadowed by the sound of a ringing.” HumansLife IsNightSoundJourneyCarBabyBirthCoupleLateNewsAccidentsEngagedTragicTelephonesHighwaysMilestoneLate NightCar Accident Author:Mitch Albom
“It's superb, definitely. Something that is new to me, that is shocking. I got the news last night about 3 in the morning, and I don't think I even went back to bed.” ThinkingLastsNightMorningBedBasketballNewsShockingLast NightSuperb Author:Scottie Pippen