Nbc Nightly News/brian Williams 2004-present

Famous quotes containing the words nbc, nightly, news, brian and/or williams:

    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)

    And nightly under the simple stars
    As I rode to sleep the owls were bearing the farm away,
    Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)

    I wouldn’t interfere with the actual news itself, but TV is show biz, Max, and even the news has to have a little showmanship.
    Paddy Chayefsky (1923–1981)

    You want to get Capone? Here’s how you get him: he pulls a knife, you pull a gun, he sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue. It’s the Chicago way and that’s how you get Capone.
    David Mamet, U.S. screenwriter, and Brian DePalma. Jimmy Malone (Sean Connery)

    Practical to the end,
    it is the poem
    of his existence
    that triumphed
    finally;
    —William Carlos Williams (1883–1963)