#porter

We never thought we were writing for posterity, because at the time everyone assumed that all the great standards had already been written by Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, Rodgers and Hammerstein... The songs we were writing were supposed to be temporary things, of the period, like comic books. ↗

— Mike Stoller

#assumed #because #been #berlin #books

Les personnages de nos autres vies sont des fantômes que la littérature fait revivre. ↗

— Olivier Weber

#africa #colonialism #french-writer #literature #report

I've always thought of myself as a reporter. ↗

— Gwendolyn Brooks

#i #myself #reporter #thought

Recognition should come to the reporter who uncovers public cheating or proves a convicted man innocent. ↗

— Phil Donahue

#come #convicted #innocent #man #proves

In Iraq, embedding allows us to put reporters in situations that would otherwise be too dangerous for them. ↗

— Jim Walton

#dangerous #iraq #otherwise #put #reporters

Television reporters aren't really called reporters. They are called researchers. And that's really all they are. ↗

— Tom Wolfe

#really #reporters #researchers #television

My sense is that, when you look at what people such as former Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein have said over the years, you don't go with a story unless you have two independent sources to confirm it. ↗

— Ron Wyden

#bob #carl #confirm #former #go

I won't say that the papers misquote me, but I sometimes wonder where Christianity would be today if some of those reporters had been Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. ↗

— Barry Goldwater

#christianity #had #i #john #luke

I've always been a strong supporter of environmental protection and initiatives in that area. But I'm willing to set priorities. If we have to make reductions in one place, we'll have to-in order to increase another place, I'm willing to do that. ↗

— Judd Gregg

#another #area #been #environmental #environmental protection

I saw a very good Hollywood film the other day. It was about Cole Porter. ↗

— Julie Harris

#cole #cole porter #day #film #good