27 Quotes by Kingman Brewster, Jr.

The newspaper fits the reader's program while the listener must fit the broadcaster's program.

It won't make for a quiet life but it will make for an interesting paper vastly more significant because it is doing something only a daily paper can do.

The fullness or emptiness of life will be measured by the extent to which a man feels that he has an impact on the lives of others.

While the spoken word can travel faster, you cant take it home in your hand. Only the written word can be absorbed wholly at the convenience of the reader.

With all the mass media concentrated in a few hands, the ancient faith in the competition of ideas in the free market seems like a hollow echo of a much simpler day.

It is satisfying for the descendant of a dissident refugee from Elizabeth I to present his credentials to Elizabeth II.

It is the natural desire of each nation to use the other as an instrument of its own purposes and policies. By dint of our mutual dependence, your influence is amplified by our power. Our power is made more responsible and more effective by your influence.

Perhaps the most fundamental value of a liberal education is that it makes life more interesting. It allows you to think things which do not occur to the less learned ... it makes it less likely that you will be bored with life.

If I take refuge in ambiguity, I assure you that it's quite conscious. I'm very curious to know what the hell they're saying on the phone, but I'd be more worried if they weren't talking.