Charles Kuralt Quotes

For a while there, I was a stringer. The expression comes from the old habit of stringing together the column inches that you had written. They'd measure it and pay you 10 cents an inch for your printed copy.

Charles Kuralt

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: journalist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 10, 1934 - July 4, 1997

Topics

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But I'll tell you what, there was a lot of farmland between Falls Church and Washington.

Jim Fowler

ChurchYouWashingtonTellBetween

I told my mother-in-law that my house was her house, and she said, 'Get the hell off my property.'

Joan Rivers

HomeHellHouseMother-In-LawSaid

I'm one of those women who likes to chat and share knowledge and pass it around.

Jennie Garth

WomenKnowledgeSharePassWhoChat

The working class of England take their deracination completely for granted. Disenchantment is the happy code that informs every byway of the underclass: service jobs, celebrity dreams, Lotto wins, leisured poverty on pre-crunch credit cards, it's all there, part of the story of an English people whose grandparents never had it so good.

Andrew O'Hagan

GoodDreamsServiceHappyPeople

You have to surrender to a book. If you do, when something in it seems to be going askew, you are wounded. The more you have surrendered to a book, the more jarring its errors appear.

Robert Gottlieb

BookYouSurrenderMoreSeemsGoing

I think to be driven to want to kill must be such a terrible burden.

Ruth Rendell

ThinkBurdenWantDrivenTerrible

I'm an old-fashioned folk singer. I stand in front of an audience with a guitar and a barstool.

Mary Gauthier

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If you went for a job interview in a Glasgow law firm, they used to ask you what school you went to. And that was a way of finding out what religion you were.

Denise Mina

JobReligionSchoolLawFindingYou

It's a parent's dream come true to watch your sons play at the highest level of college basketball.

Dell Curry

CollegeBasketballParentDreamPlay

The sibilant s is the most difficult sound to correct.

Christine Baranski

SoundDifficultMostCorrect

Everybody's got family, or they don't have family, but they come from somewhere.

Chris Pine

FamilySomewhereGotComeEverybody

I collect hats, and I'm really big into Stetsons. Not particularly the Stetsons brand but that sort of fedora-type. I just think it's sharp.

Boyd Holbrook

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