Good Night And Good Luck Quotes:

Good night, and good luck.

- Edward R. Murrow

topic: Good Night, Good Luck, Journalism, Night Time, Hunger In America

I cannot improve on those spoken for many years by a true legend who preceded me at CBS News. He would say, simply, 'good night, and good luck.'

- Mike Wallace

topic: Good Night, Good Luck, Years, Good Night And Good Luck

In the US, the 50s and 60s marked the documentary's golden age, especially at CBS, where pioneering televison journalist Edward R Murrow, immortalised in George Clooney's Good Night, and Good Luck, produced such landmark investigations as the CBS Reports programme Hunger in America.

- Naomi Wolf

source: "Smugglers of truth" by Naomi Wolf, www.theguardian.com. January 18, 2009.

topic: Good Night, Goodnight, Good Luck, Hunger In America, Edward R Murrow

We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it.

- Edward R. Murrow

source: YouTube Chanel "KD"/ "Edward R. Murrow: 'A Report on Senator Joseph R. McCarthy'", www.youtube.com. November 10, 2014.

topic: Peace, War, Teaching, Due Process, Disloyalty

We have currently a built-in allergy to unpleasant or disturbing information. Our mass media reflect this. But unless we get up off our fat surpluses and recognize that television in the main is being used to distract, delude, amuse, and insulate us, then television and those who finance it, those who look at it, and those who work at it, may see a totally different picture too late.

- Edward R. Murrow

source: Radio-Television News Directors Association Convention Address, delivered 15 October 1958, Chicago, Illinois

topic: Media, Different, Allergies, Disturbing, Good Night And Good Luck

Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Love, I Miss You, Good Night, Sorrow Love, Day And Night

We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason, if we dig deep in our history and our doctrine, and remember that we are not descended from fearful men ... We proclaim ourselves, as indeed we are, the defenders of freedom, wherever it continues to exist in the world, but we cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.

- Edward R. Murrow

source: Edward R. Murrow (1967). “In Search of Light: The Broadcasts of Edward R. Murrow, 1938-1961”

topic: Home, Men, Age, Due Process, Disloyalty

Night is longer than day for those who dream & day is longer than night for those who make their dreams comes true.

- Jack Kerouac

topic: Good Night, Goodnight, Dream, Day And Night, Inspirational Good Night

This instrument [radio] can teach. It can illuminate, yes, and it can even inspire. But it can do so only to the extent that humans are determined to use it to those ends. Otherwise it's nothing but wires and lights in a box.

- Edward R. Murrow

source: Edward R. Murrow (1967). “In Search of Light: The Broadcasts of Edward R. Murrow, 1938-1961”

topic: Education, Light, Inspire, Good Night And Good Luck

I am seized with an abiding fear regarding what these two instruments are doing to our society, our culture and our heritage. Our history will be what we make it. And if there are any historians about fifty or a hundred years from now, and there should be preserved the kinescopes for one week of all three networks, they will there find recorded in black and white, or color, evidence of decadence, escapism and insulation from the realities of the world in which we live,

- Edward R. Murrow

source: "Fictional character: Edward R. Murrow". "Good Night, and Good Luck", www.imdb.com. 2005.

topic: Black And White, Reality, Color, Escapism, Catching Up

The world is for those who make their dreams come true.

- Harold Gray

topic: Dream, Vision, World, Dreaming At Night, Sweet Dreams

Default is not in our stars, but in ourselves.

- Paul Krugman

topic: Stars, Good Luck, Astrology, Cassius, Ides Of March

I think the best way to get a good night sleep is to work hard throughout the day. If you work hard and, of course, work out.

- William H. McRaven

source: "The Man Who Led the Bin Laden Mission Teaches You How to Make Your Bed" by John Hendrickson, www.esquire.com. May 22, 2014.

topic: Good Night, Sleep, Hard Work, Day And Night, Inspirational Good Night

Music is love, love is music, music is life, and I love my life. Thank you and good night.

- A. J. McLean

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Love, Thanksgiving, Good Night, Music Is Life, Inspirational Good Night

Do not go gently into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light.

- Dylan Thomas

topic: Good Night, Light, Dying, Wonderful Night, Good Night And Good Luck

Diligence is the mother of good luck.

- Benjamin Franklin

topic: Motivational, Mother, Business, Stop Procrastination, Diligent

I sometimes think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

source: "Roosevelt and Howe" y Alfred B. Rollins, Jr., (p. 153), 1962.

topic: Military, Good Luck, Army, Early Bird, Good Night And Good Luck

Just once in a while, let us exalt the importance of ideas and information.

- Edward R. Murrow

topic: Ideas, Information, Importance, Good Night And Good Luck

We're not descended from fearful men - not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate, and to defend causes that were, for the moment, unpopular.

- Edward R. Murrow

source: "A Report on Senator Joseph R. McCarthy". "See It Now" on CBS, www.lib.berkeley.edu. March 09, 1954.

topic: Writing, Men, Due Process Of Law, Due Process, Good Night And Good Luck

Sometimes I'm so tired, I look down at what I'm wearing, and if it's comfortable enough to sleep in, I don't even make it into my pajamas. I'm looking down, and I'm like, 'T-shirt and stretchy pants? Yup, that's fine. It's pajama-y, good night.'

- Rebecca Romijn

topic: Good Night, Sleep, Tired, Good Night And Good Luck, Have A Good Night

With "Good Night, and Good Luck," I think it's kind of obvious what [Truman Capote]'s getting at there, and the importance of how it's playing out today, that is journalism doing, are the journalists doing their job, are they being the other checks and balances in our country that the way that obviously Edward R. Murrow was back then.

- Philip Seymour Hoffman

topic: Good Night, Country, Jobs, Truman, Edward R Murrow

It's hard these days to have a conversation, at least it is for me, about [Truman]Capote without "Good Night, and Good Luck" coming up in the same conversation.

- Tavis Smiley

topic: Good Night, Good Luck, Truman, Good Night And Good Luck

Capote, of course, addressed very similar themes to Good Night and Good Luck. Both films are about determined journalists defying obstacles in a relentless pursuit of the truth. Needless to say, both are period pieces.

- Jon Stewart

topic: Good Night, Good Luck, Pieces, Relentless Pursuit, Good Night And Good Luck

Dream happy dreams. You are the only one who has ever touched my heart. It will always be yours. Sleep,my only love.

- Stephenie Meyer

source: Stephenie Meyer (2008). “Eclipse”, Little Brown & Company

topic: Good Night, Goodnight, Dream, Good Night And Good Luck, Saying Goodnight

Do not go gentle into that good night.

- Dylan Thomas

source: "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night" l. 16 (1952)

topic: Good Night, Night, Gentle, Matched, Inspirational Tattoo

As a final crash of self-indulgent nonsense, when the incontrovertible truth of your panoramic and murderous deceit has even begun to cost your political party seemingly perpetual congressional seats....When somebody asks you, sir, about the cooked books and faked threats you foisted on a sincere and frightened nation; when somebody asks you, sir, about your gallant, noble, self-abnegating sacrifice of your golf game so as to soothe the families of the war dead; this advice, Mr. Bush: Shut the hell up! Good night and good luck.

- Keith Olbermann

topic: Good Night, War, Party, Gallant, Perpetual