Top 118 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Broadcasters

Can we really be friends with those who don't love the books that we do? Of course we can, but can we really be friends with those who don't love any books? I'm not so sure of that.

There are people whom one loves immediately and forever. Even to know they are alive in the world with one is quite enough.

TV is shifting into the background of just being another appliance; it’s just a bigger screen.

Commentors to the Blog suggested Nick should take the Independent for every penny.

Stories are one of the greatest gifts we can give to our children. Stories are equipment for life.

Having the attitude of just playing the game isn't my strength. I have to be productive. That's my responsibility.

If the enemy can keep us occupied, we don't present much opposition.

When I hear [about a housing bubble] I get the sense that people aren't connecting the dots.

Adele Adkins' retro-soul debut, '19', was striking less for her songs than for that voice: a voluptuous, slightly parched alto that swooped and fluttered like a Dusty Springfield student trying to upstage her teacher, or at least update the rules.

Concentration is sometimes mistaken for grumpiness.

Anyone who fears, as I do, that today's public schools are dangerously close to being irrelevant must read this book. The authors provide a road map-and a lifeline-showing how schools can prosper under the most difficult conditions. It is a welcome departure from all the school bashing.

Professional football in America is a special game, a unique game ... It is a rare game. The men who play it make it so. All of them are fearless. All of them are strong, quick. And all of them are part of a story that began long ago. A story written by men who found, in the sport, a demanding measure for their own courage and ability.

He's like a terrier, Scholes, he won't let go - even the postman would be afraid of him.

Everything in life, I have come to conclude, is about 15 minutes too long. Except for summer - summer never begins early enough and always ends too soon.

Sports are, and should be, a joy. And it delights me that the joy I felt through the years of broadcasting games was projected onto the audience.

There is only the actuality of what happens in life. The rest is just a story, no matter who's telling it.

We knew it was coming but there were some rumors of a possible 50 basis point cut (a half a percentage point) and every time that happens it sets us up for disappointments. The reality is a very large majority of people don't know how to react to this so they're taking their cue from the market. It's really indecision.

There are nearly 1 million Americans who visit the emergency room each year because of dental pain at a cost that runs into the hundreds of millions.

There are things about Joe Torre, if I wanted to come out and say, would show how cold and calculated he really is... Joe Torre is for Joe Torre. ... The graveyard of Yankees coaches is loaded with bones of coaches Joe Torre did nothing about.

If someone starts talking about pride today I'm going to vomit... The Apache nation had pride and look where they are. The bushmen of Kalahari have pride and look where they are.

Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.

American football makes rugby look like a Tupperware party.

And meade had a hatrick. He scoresd two goals

The alternative to peace is not war. It is annihilation.

It is effectively BBC policy to ignore climate change sceptics.

I hope Stoke stay up this season, and stay up for long enough so that they can get enough money and buy some footballers.

Sports taught me that I can make a mistake one minute, let it go, and be brilliant the next.

When you are in the public eye you cannot afford to show doubts. I do my crying alone.

There is no change in the top six of division 2, except that Leeds have moved into the top six

The combined outrage of the millions of creatures which have suffered at the hands of man may well combine to haunt us. We are all of the same family, though destiny has assigned us to different roles: in our relationship with animals, we should regard them as different, not inferior.

There is nothing special about your suffering.

Jean Tigana has spent the entire first half inside Liam Brady's shorts.

It's not that we have to give to support the gospel. Giving is the gospel.

Whenever I have tried to do anything For Money it has always led me astray.

It starts with a whistle and ends with a gun.

Don't go running off at the mouth. Let the picture tell the story. No one tunes in to hear you broadcast the game, except maybe your mother or your wife.

If we continually let go of the moments, we let go of who we are and we lose ourselves.

The population of the United Kingdom has, for the first time, reached sixty million. If they stood on each other's shoulders they would reach perhaps twenty feet in the air before toppling over.

The reason for the delay to the kick-off is because it's not yet kick-off time

These long-run worries, there's an element of truth to them, but I think frankly the fears are exaggerated.

Everything begins in Paris.

It borders on irresponsibility when people get on television and start talking that way when they should know better. They should do their homework, and they should report in a responsible manner. Unfortunately, it's a very competitive business, the business we're in, and there is a perception that by hyping up this threat, you draw people's attention.

I like a new clean book, freshly bound, particularly when I am the first to read it. I like dirty books - where other people have been before me, slipping fried eggs between the pages as markers - rather less.

To a normal person, $10 million will seem like enough. But anyone who thinks that's enough is not the type that can acquire that much in the first place.

Fully repeal Obamacare and replace it with health savings accounts. And we can do that.

I only really love a book when I have read it at least four times.

At a Texas college, a football field that was turned into a farm. The Tigers of Paul Quinn College lost more football games than they won on this field. So, years ago, when the historically black college on the South Side of Dallas was in financial crisis and had a 1 percent graduation rate, a new president turned everything over, including the football field.

I'm sorry for croaking at you this evening. This is PM, I'm Eddie Mair: the walrus of news.

It is a city of villages, closely connected, each village dedicated to a different way of life.

The world of books: romantic, idle, shiftless world so beautiful, so cheap compared with living.

Our possessions don't own us any more, because we don't possess them.

Books that recount ordeals are precious because an ordeal is what we most fear, and the stories that tell us how to survive them reassure us about what a human being is capable of, as we survive our own lives every day, our own mysterious journeys.

God, it's nice to be treated like a man.

Back to basics Rock & Roll capturing the beauty and simplicity of punk

True browsing means that we discover shelves and subjects that we could not have anticipated when we started. And the books we read introduce us to other books, as if we are at a magnificent party of the mind, being ever welcomed by new friends to join in the conversation.

There's a lot of feeling that the school curriculum has been bare-bones, just drill and, again, no art, music, and so on and so forth.

After that transition to the White House, Donald Trump will settle in for his first day of work, January 21, 2017. He's already proposed the actions he wants to take within his first 100 days in office, but which campaign promises can he realistically tackle in that time?

Be in love with the moments of your life.

I learned that books could be collected, that they were important enough to keep and that a story that seemed to be over could be part of a bigger one.

Ball-tampering. There, I've said it. Things that shouldn't be said: the judge in the Saddam trial appears to be wearing comedy specs and moustache.