Morley Safer quote: "BBC Radio is a never-never land of broadcasting, a safe haven from commercial considerations, a honey pot for every scholar and every hare-brained nut to stick a finger into."

After more than 50 years of broadcasting on 'CBS News' and '60 Minutes,' I have deci...
MORLEY SAFER

The helicopter is a fine way to travel, but it induces a view of the world that only God and CEOs sh...
MORLEY SAFER

No great pastry chef has sweet teeth.
MORLEY SAFER

What does it say about us that people who are considered defective are instinctively caring and comp...
MORLEY SAFER

It is always disarming to treat with the enemy, so to speak.
MORLEY SAFER

You can never have enough garlic. With enough garlic, you can eat The New York Times.
MORLEY SAFER

Don may yawn at the idea, which he often does, but the great thing about Don, he has confidence in m...
MORLEY SAFER

Reality TV is sleazy, it is manipulative. It is as momentary as anything in popular culture.
MORLEY SAFER

I really feel stateless, which is not bad, because I always felt a man without a country was not enc...
MORLEY SAFER

When I did that interview with Hepburn, the only ground rule was, you did not discuss Spencer Tracy....
MORLEY SAFER

I'm just wondering whether going back to the mundane bread-and-butter stuff of legal work must be ki...
MORLEY SAFER

Has it changed the way you look at the rest of your life?
MORLEY SAFER

In those long months of listening to those horrible stories, dreadful stories, how did you get throu...
MORLEY SAFER

Yes, it will. It absolutely will.
MORLEY SAFER

Pilgrims who are looking for a cure are soon looking for a curio.
MORLEY SAFER

The BBC is a perfect example of uncontrolled growth, [occupying] old churches and manor houses, the ...
MORLEY SAFER

Kids' views are often just as valid as the teachers'. The best teachers are the ones that know that.
MORLEY SAFER

Who knows who will be on board? A couple of spies, for sure. At least one grand duke; a few beautifu...
MORLEY SAFER

As the kind of movie star that you were, certainly you could be a dictator, ... You could say, 'I wa...
MORLEY SAFER

When I grow up, I want to have an exhibit called 'American Motel.'
MORLEY SAFER

You can be a great president and be ridden with flaws. Of course we know that.
MORLEY SAFER

McNamara's plea was that he had no idea that Vietnam had a history of longing for self-determina...
MORLEY SAFER

In many ways when Jerry Ford pardoned Nixon, in a certain way, he did speak for the country.
MORLEY SAFER

But to a Vietnamese peasant whose home means a lifetime of back-breaking labor, it will take more th...
MORLEY SAFER

What has reality shows got to do with reality? It is beyond unreality; there is nothing real about i...
MORLEY SAFER

It's made a better man of you.
MORLEY SAFER

We are on Sunday night because that is where they put us 30-odd years ago. I think we became a habit...
MORLEY SAFER

Whenever it's suggested that our sponsors have some kind of influence or control of what we cove...
MORLEY SAFER

Clinton's pardoning of Marc Rich was off-the-wall.
MORLEY SAFER

Killing is the payoff of war.
MORLEY SAFER

I am not in this business as a calling. I don't do what I do to right any wrongs.
MORLEY SAFER

After four or five different wars, I grew weary of that work, partly because in an open war, open to...
MORLEY SAFER

A lot of sponsors over the years have left us. They've all come back. But they chose to leave us...
MORLEY SAFER

I have no desire to put my feet up. Why would I?
MORLEY SAFER

We don't want anything from the government but that furtive little fellow called the truth - whi...
MORLEY SAFER

So much crap passes as information that not only does the audience sometimes miss the distinction be...
MORLEY SAFER

Some people, you have to grit your teeth in order to stay in the same room as them, but you get on a...
MORLEY SAFER

I would trust citizen journalism as much as I would trust citizen surgery.
MORLEY SAFER

Kids' views are often just as valid as the teachers'. The best teachers are the ones that kn...
MORLEY SAFER

Artie was there from the beginning, a whirlwind of energy, as passionate about the look of 60 Minute...
MORLEY SAFER

What really shifted my understanding of my potential placement in the world of art is when I had a c...
MORLEY

As a screenwriter, there's so many layers you have to go through in order to tell your story. Yo...
MORLEY

I include myself in the posters because I feel like it forms a more intimate relationship between th...
MORLEY

There are many ways to become mistress (or master) of one's fate after a betrayal, but they all have...
JEANNE SAFER

From that time on, I always had the studios on my neck.
KAREN MORLEY

I was blacklisted because of this activity, so I'm not a typical anything.
KAREN MORLEY

I became a Communist because I fell in love with a man who was a Red and entered the Army to take ca...
KAREN MORLEY

I did Our Daily Bread for King and that made me popular in the Soviet Union; King was amused by that...
KAREN MORLEY

Ford made some of the most progressive pictures.
KAREN MORLEY

It was all men, and there I was prancing around in gowns that barely got past the censors.
KAREN MORLEY

I would have tested the furniture if they'd asked me.
KAREN MORLEY

I don't like giving speeches - I enjoy sitting on my rump.
KAREN MORLEY

And I spoke out on women's rights, like equal pay for equal work.
KAREN MORLEY

There is only one success to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absu...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

Having power and being in a position of power can really blur your judgement, and it's not alway...
BOB MORLEY

Politics is a field where the choice lies constantly between two blunders.
JOHN MORLEY

There is only one success ... to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others ...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

Many people think of knowledge as money, They would like knowledge, but do not want to face the pers...
JOHN MORLEY

Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done s...
JOHN MORLEY

Books worth reading once are worth reading twice; and what is most important of all, the masterpiece...
JOHN MORLEY

In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.
JOHN MORLEY

We've had bad luck with our kids -- they've all grown up.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

Men talk of "finding God," but no wonder it is difficult; He is hidden in that darkest hiding-place,...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.
JOHN MORLEY

Man makes a great fuss about this planet which is only a ballbearing in the hub of the universe.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

Only the sinner has a right to preach.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

The courage of the Poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

If you have to keep reminding yourself of a thing, perhaps it isn't so.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really impor...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you your...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

No man is lonely while eating spaghetti. It requires so much attention.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

There is only one success-to be able to live your life in your own way.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

There are three ingredients in the good life: yearning, learning, and earning.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as much as the dog does.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

If we all discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every tele...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

There is only one success-to be able to spend your life in your own way.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinki...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

The essence of morality is the subjugation of nature in obedience to social needs.
JOHN MORLEY

Even good opinions are worth very little unless we hold them in the broad, intelligent, and spacious...
JOHN MORLEY

Nature, in her most dazzling aspects or stupendous parts, is but the background and theater of the t...
JOHN MORLEY

Simplicity of character is no hindrance to subtlety of intellect.
JOHN MORLEY

Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really impor...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

They act as if they supposed that to be very sanguine about the general improvement of mankind is a ...
JOHN MORLEY

The courage of the poets is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
JOHN MORLEY

There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love, and like that colos...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions.
JOHN MORLEY

I had a million questions to ask God: but when I met Him, they all fled my mind; and it didn't seem ...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

In parliament he again pressed the necessity of reducing expenditure. Friends warned him that he was...
JOHN MORLEY

High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

No man is lonely while eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

Evolution is not a force but a process. Not a cause but a law.
JOHN MORLEY

No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

Dancing is a wonderful training for girls, it's the first way you learn to guess what a man is going...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

Any man worth his salt has by the time he is forty-five accumulated a crown of thorns, and the probl...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

God made man merely to hear some praise of what he'd done on those Five Days.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

The essence of a quote is the compression of a mass of thought and observation into a single saying.
JOHN MORLEY

Maxims and aphorisms, let us remember that wisdom is the true salt of literature, and the books that...
JOHN MORLEY

They are the guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in that great business of ours, of ...
JOHN MORLEY

A proverb is good sense brought to a point.
JOHN MORLEY

April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinki...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

If people take the trouble to cook, you should take the trouble to eat.
ROBERT MORLEY

A human being is an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

There is only one success-to be able to spend your life in your own way. Morrie Schwartz, in "Tuesda...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without, and to depart.
JOHN MORLEY

If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

If we discovered that we had only five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephon...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

Only the sinner has the right to preach.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

If we discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephon...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in orde...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

People like to imagine that because all our mechanical equipment moves so much faster, that we are t...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

From now until the end of time no one else will ever see life with my eyes, and I mean to make the b...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit from Nature.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

No man is lonely eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

The last confession he heard was from a young hysterical girl who seemed to him to be making up a ch...
MORLEY CALLAGHAN

A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

Why do they put the Gideon bibles only in the bedrooms, where it's usually too late?
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

Only the sinner has a right to preach
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.
JOHN MORLEY

Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions.
JOHN MORLEY

A right without an attendant responsibility is as unreal as a sheet of paper which has only one side...
FELIX MORLEY

There's no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

There are certain people whom one feels almost inclined to urge to hurry up and die so that their le...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated, but not signed.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

A critic is a gong at a railroad crossing clanging loudly and vainly as the train goes by.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning, and yearning.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

There is only one success-to be able to spend your life in your own way.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversations as a dog does.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

There is only one success... to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others a...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

He who hates vice hates men.
JOHN MORLEY

There is only one success -- to be able to spend your life in your own way.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

Success: Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.
ROBERT MORLEY

There are three ingredients to the good life; learning, earning, and yearning.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

We call a child's mind "small" simply by habit; perhaps it is larger than ours is, for it can take i...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a ...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

Names were not so much dropped as thrown in a perpetual game of catch.
ROBERT MORLEY

No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character.
JOHN MORLEY

Three things matter in a speech - who says it, how he says it and what he says, and of the three, th...
JOHN MORLEY

When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell hi...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

A right without an attendant responsibility is as unreal as a sheet of paper which has only one side
FELIX MORLEY

Having alternatives is important we believe as the industry continues to consolidate. On the Draw si...
PATRICK MORLEY

A great interpreter of life ought not himself to need interpretation.
JOHN MORLEY

When you give someone a book, you dont give him just paper, ink, and glue. You give him the possib...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

Labels are devices for saving talkative persons the trouble of thinking
JOHN MORLEY

The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without, and to depart
JOHN MORLEY

All religions die of one disease - that of being found out
JOHN MORLEY

It is a great help for a man to be in love with himself. For an actor, however, it is absolutely ess...
ROBERT MORLEY

I have little patience with anyone who is not self-satisfied. I am always pleased to see my friends,...
ROBERT MORLEY

The greatest poem ever knownIs one all poets have outgrown:The poetry, innate, untold,Of being only ...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

Poetry, men attain By subtler pain More flagrant in the brain - An honesty unfeigned, A heart unchai...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

The unluckiest insolvent in the world is the man whose expenditure is too great for his income of id...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

Fifty percent of the world are women, yet they always seem a novelty
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

Truth is the strong compost in which beauty may sometimes germinate
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

Informal is what women always say they're going to be and never are
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

Simplicity of character is no hindrance to subtlety of intellect.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

There was so much handwriting on the wall that even the wall fell down
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

Cleanliness is indeed next to godliness.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

The British tourist is always happy abroad as long as the natives are waiters.
ROBERT MORLEY

The French are a logical people, which is one reason the English dislike them so intensely. The othe...
ROBERT MORLEY

Why do they put the Gideon bibles only in the bedrooms, where it's usually too late?
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

When you give someone a book, you don’t give him just paper, ink, and glue. You give him the possi...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

Man makes a great fuss about this planet which is only a ballbearing in the hub of the universe
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

Everything they said she has to be she's contradicted. She's small and has a tough look, her face is...
PAUL MORLEY

Life's a lot different from what people pretend. That's why pretending is fun. I used to think it wa...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

It was just a bang and then I heard sirens.
JOHN MORLEY

Words are a commodity in which there is never any slump.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit from Nature
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

Man, an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

BBC Radio is a never-never land of broadcasting, a safe haven from commercial considerations, a honey pot for every scholar and every hare-brained nut to stick a finger into.

Copied!

Morley Safer

BBC Radio is a never-never land of broadcasting, a safe haven from commercial considerations, a honey pot for every scholar and every hare-brained nut to stick a finger into.

Morley Safer

Share:

Related

More Morley Safer