108 Quotes by Edward R. Murrow

A blur of blinks, taps, jiggles, pivots and shifts ... the body language of a man wishing urgently to be elsewhere.

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.

To be credible we must be truthful.

We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty.

Language is one of the greatest gifts man has devised for himself. It ranks, alongside the discovery of fire and the wheel, as a major influence in making modern man what he is today.

I was greatly influenced by one of my teachers. She had a zeal not so much for perfection as for steady betterment-she demanded not excellence so much as integrity.

The best speakers know enough to be scared…the only difference between the pros and the novices is that the pros have trained the butterflies to fly in formation.

Don't be deluded into believing that the titular heads of the networks control what appears on their networks. They all have better taste.

I am frightened by the imbalance, the constant striving to reach the largest possible audience for everything; by the absence of a sustained study of the state of the nation.