Famous quotes containing the words nbc, original and/or peacock:
“Whether lawyer, politician or executive, the American who knows what’s good for his career seeks an institutional rather than an individual identity. He becomes the man from NBC or IBM. The institutional imprint furnishes him with pension, meaning, proofs of existence. A man without a company name is a man without a country.”
—Lewis H. Lapham (b. 1935)
“We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are.”
—G.C. (Georg Christoph)
“The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity.”
—Thomas Love Peacock (1785–1866)