The 77+ Edward R. Murrow Quotes

Fame Is Morally Neutral.

Don't Be Deluded Into Believing That The Titular Heads Of The Networks Control What Appears On Their Networks. They All Have Better Taste.

A Thing Of Orchestrated Hell-a Terrible Symphony Of Light And Flame.

I Am Entirely Persuaded That The American Public Is More Reasonable, Restrained And More Mature Than Most Of Our Industry's Program Planners Believe.

Tuberculosis, Starvation, Fatigue, And There Are Many Who Have No Desire To Live.

In Order To Progress, Radio Need Only Go Backward, To The Time When Singing Commercials Were Not Allowed On News Reports, When There Was No Middle Commercial On A News Report, When Radio Was Rather Proud, Alert And Fast.

A Reporter Is Always Concerned With Tomorrow. There's Nothing Tangible Of Yesterday. All I Can Say I've Done Is Agitate The Air Ten Or Fifteen Minutes And Then Boom - It's Gone.

A Satellite Has No Conscience.

A Blur Of Blinks, Taps, Jiggles, Pivots And Shifts ... The Body Language Of A Man Wishing Urgently To Be Elsewhere.

We Are To A Large Extent An Imitative Society.

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.

It Has Always Seemed To Me The Real Art In This Business Is Not So Much Moving Information Or Guidance Or Policy Five Or 10,000 Miles. That Is An Electronic Problem. The Real Art Is To Move It The Last Three Feet In Face To Face Conversation.