Top 174 Quotes & Sayings by Tina Brown - Page 2

'The Daily Beast' and Howard Kurtz have parted company.

By the end of 'Game Change,' one feels that the candidates' few happy moments are those when they 'lose it.'

Your normal Wall Street big-swinging Richard has enough of a lingering moral compass to at least tell himself that his wizardry benefits somebody or something besides himself. You know, his cleverness makes capital markets more efficient. It provides credit to productive enterprise. Whatever.

Beast Books will be longer than conventional long-form magazine articles but shorter than conventional nonfiction books. They will be published digitally and distributed on multiple platforms, and will soon thereafter be available as handy paperbacks.

Politicians have always been required to be fake, but now the career havoc wrought by a stray, flying sound bite means they have to sustain their fakeness all the time.

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar turned out to be all hat and no cattle with his sorry oversight of the Minerals Management Service.

Servility always curdles into rage in the end.

Does Obama create confusion on purpose?

A trio of reputations lie at the heart of Henry James's 'The Portrait of a Lady.'

Reputation is a timely subject, now that nobody has one.

I don't actually go to newsstands anymore.

Everyone is someone else's catalyst for selling something these days.

The number one way of becoming powerful in Washington is by becoming the 'Washington Post.'

I've always been very enamored of European newsmagazines - the 'Spiegel' kind of magazine, which has an energetic, high-low approach to news.

Until 1869, when they were banned, debtors' prisons were the great incinerators of British reputations. Those who were unable to pay their bills were jailed until their creditors were paid - an unlikely event, given that the prisoner was unable to work.

Obama achieved something in his first year with health care that successive presidents have been unable to achieve.

I wish my daughter wasn't spending time thinking of Kim Kardashian or Rihanna.

It's one of the biggest fibs going that American newspapers are now being forced to give up their commitment to investigative reporting. Most of them gave up long ago as their greedy managements squeezed every cent out of the bottom line and turned their newsrooms into eunuchs.

In the world of screens, we're all tired of screens. That's why I think that live events have become so popular.

The British Isles are awash with the choice of beautiful historic churches, abbeys, and cathedrals where one king or another has tied the knot and bestowed a royal precedent.

It's actually harder than it looks to be a good pundit on the air. You've got to have stuff to say.

It is ironic that American women now need to be fortified by the inspiration of the women of the Arab Spring, who risked so much to win basic human rights.

The Duke of York has never remarried.

Obama can't change his cool disposition, though it would be nice if he lost the vaguely grudging air he gives off that problems of management get in the way of ideas.

Unlike the Kennedy dynasty, who always knew how to pay off people who might make trouble, the Windsors can't bring themselves to part with any royal trinkets.

Schwarzenegger is big, he's noisy, he's larger than life, and he's earned the credibility to be cast for the role of America's Green superhero.

Celebrity these days is completely for sale; it's not remotely mysterious. But there's something that remains glamorous and mysterious about royalty.

Obama's gift for delivering set-piece oratorical tours de force had special resonance to Americans fed up with a president who could hardly string two words together without a collision of syntax and whose idea of clever was the single entendre.

Where did the inspiring Obama of the campaign go, that Facebook pied piper who friended the whole world with this update: 'Change you can believe in.' What happened to him?

If a star football player can have a mythical girlfriend, why can't I have a mythical Congress?

Who was Amanda Knox? Was she a fresh-faced honor student from Seattle who met anyone's definition of an all-American girl - attractive, athletic, smart, hard-working, adventuresome, in love with languages and travel? Or was her pretty face a mask, a duplicitous cover for a depraved soul?

The rights of women are to the 21st century what civil rights were to the 20th.

Whether it's in Washington, or whether it's with the mothers of extremists, or whether it's education in places like Pakistan... a lot of women in these emerging countries are taking charge and doing amazing things.

I haven't spent years, like Alyse Nelson of Vital Voices, toiling for female economic empowerment on five continents.

Practices such as arranged marriages and restrictions on girls attending school have deep roots, and changing them is a gradual process. Sometimes these problems seem very far away from us here in the United States. But let's remember that even into the 20th century, an American woman could not own property or vote in national elections.

One of the the great things about having had something that didn't work out is: So what? I am fine.

It's almost as if Putin is brilliant, really - he's outfoxing Obama all the time.

The digital explosion has been so explosive.

I think that big, sort of theatrical relaunches tend to set you up for failure and hype.

Editorial outfits are now advertising agencies.

When I took over 'The New Yorker,' there was a very, very good, smart staff in place.

Magazine articles are the new books.

I keep thinking about how terrifyingly vulnerable women are in so many countries.

Obama, for all his brilliance, has no real, felt understanding of management structures or of business.

Obama fans become more and more glum that he keeps flubbing the very role he was expected to be so good at: Therapist to the nation. The Great Comforter.

There is nothing radical about Obama except the fact of who he is.

'Wingnuts' is the first book bearing the imprint of Beast Books.

American newspapers are dying mostly because they were so dull for so long, a whole generation gave up on them.

There is nobody more boring than the undefeated.

Disinterested public service has become, just so... what's the phrase, 'old school.'

Any great, long career has at least one flameout in it.

Owning news makes you important; it gives you a seat at the table.

What is new is the multiplying reach and volume of the Internet, concentrating the toxicity of destructive emotions and circulating them in the political bloodstream with unparalleled velocity.

The viral power of online media has proven how fast creative ideas can be spread and adopted, using tools like cellphones, digital cameras, micro-credit, mobile banking, Facebook, and Twitter. A perfect example? The way the Green Movement in Iran caught fire thanks to social media.

You can get an interview with anyone overseas on the basis of being part of 'Newsweek.' It still has a great deal of impact.

What has happened to America's survival instincts?

Everywhere you look, there's a hunger to put the ethos by which Wall Street thrives on trial.

I think British journalists do well in America because the newspaper culture there is so strong - telling stories and presenting them readably is in their DNA. British newspapers get a terrible rap, but they are brilliant in their presentation, most of them, so full of vitality and literary wit.

For Sarah Palin, the least experienced on the world stage, the stress of maintaining the fiction that she was qualified to be vice president sent her over the deep end almost immediately. She went off on a ferocious spending spree that might have killed a lesser woman. Katie Couric's straightforward questions unraveled her.

Anyone aspiring to literary greatness should read 'New Grub Street' and weep.