Linda Ellerbee Quotes

If men can run the world, why can't they stop wearing neckties? How intelligent is it to start the day by tying a little noose around your neck?

If you believe in your heart that you are right, you must fight with all your might to do it your way. Only dead fish swim with the stream all the time.

The new national campfire - radio.

A good time to laugh is any time you can.

What I like most about change is that it's a synonym for 'hope'. If you're taking a risk, what you are really saying is, 'I believe in tomorrow and I will be the part of it.

When the anchorman is wearing a colonel's uniform, it tells you something.

I want to know why, if men rule the world, they don't stop wearing neckties.

In the coldest February, as in every other month in every other year, the best thing to hold on to in this world is each other.

People are pretty much alike. It's only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities.

Like Nietzsche, I believe that without music, life would be a mistake. Nothing but silence says it better.

Only dead fish swim with the stream all of the time.

There are two types of change: the change we choose and the change that chooses us.

The best time to laugh is anytime you can.

I think laughter may be a form of courage. As humans we sometimes stand tall and look into the sun and laugh, and I think we are never more brave than when we do that.

I believe in tomorrow and I will be part of it.

in television the product is not the program; the product is the audience and the consumer of that product is the advertiser. The advertiser does not 'buy' a news program. He buys an audience.

I think laughter may be a form of courage.

I've heard it said that the first law of journalism is to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.

Styles, like everything else, change. Style doesn't.

It's not brain surgery. It's not nuclear physics. It's television. It's only television.

I am not for abortion; nobody is for abortion. I am for your right to make your own hard choices in this world.

if you don't want to get old, don't mellow.

Always remember to set a place at the table of life for the unexpected guest.

Co-dependence...taking someone else's temperature to see how you feel.

Just because it's a rat race doesn't mean it's okay to be a rat.

I was raised by and have raised people who regard telling one story when two would do as a sign someone is not really trying.

Time doesn't go. Time stays. We go.

Putting people in a room and strapping wires to their wrist to find out if I make them tingle when I'm telling them about Beirut is a long way from Edward R. Murrow.

Dreck is dreck and no amount of fancy polish is going to make it anything else.

How is it that so often . . . I get the feeling I've worked hard to learn something I already know, or knew, once.

Presumably a movement is more polite than a revolution, and a lot slower.

Change, like youth, is purely wasted on the young.

The whole town looks as if it had been left out in the rain too long and by mistake.

Pitching was about fooling people, manipulating them, making them believe in something that ultimately wasn't there. Great pitching was great lying.

If you believe in your heart that you are right, then you must fight with all your might to do it your way. Only dead fish swim with the stream all the time.

I think laughter may be a form of courage.... As humans we sometimes stand tall and look into the sun and laugh and I think we are never more brave than when we do that.

In the coldest February as in every other month in every other year the best thing to hold on to in this world is each other.

Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels.

I want to know why if men rule the world they don't stop wearing neckties.