Mark Colvin famous quotes

I want my reputation to be judged on how I tackle the problem of ice if I'm elected as the member for Canning.
-- Mark Colvin

#Ice #Want #Reputation

The people who are showing up [on the Republican National Convention ], either they are ones who actually believe in Donald Trump, or they think there's enough they care about, sort of keeping the party afloat and avoiding a sweeping loss in the centre of the house, they're going to show up and give him some kind of base.
-- Mark Colvin

#Party #Believe #Loss

As so often, a political event involving Donald Trump looks like swinging wildly between melodrama and farce. The Republican National Convention in Cleveland has begun with accusations of plagiarism after Mr Trump's wife Melania gave a speech dotted with sentences that appeared to have been lifted from a speech that Michelle Obama gave in 2008.
-- Mark Colvin

#Wife #Political #Speech

I think certainly everybody is aware of the potential for just the very inflamed political mood in America .
-- Mark Colvin

#Thinking #America #Political

Donald Trump is going to be onstage introducing his wife, Melania, so I think this is the first time a presidential nominee has been onstage twice during one convention, and it probably is only the first of many firsts we will record for The Donald during these next few days.
-- Mark Colvin

#Thinking #Wife #Presidential

The proportion of [Donald's Trump] own direct family members who are speaking [on the Republican National Convention] is high to an unprecedented degree and a proportion of sort of figures of policy substance is unprecedentedly low. But the word unprecedentedly can be applied to simply everything that's happening this year.
-- Mark Colvin

#Years #Degrees #Substance

Think the very fact that somebody like Mike Pence is seen as useful to the [Donald] Trump campaign would be analytically a sign of difficulty for him because, you know, the Republican Party over the last two decades has needed to include his support among women, among Latinos, among blacks, among young people, and among highly educated people.
-- Mark Colvin

#Party #Thinking #Two

Mike Pence is simply shoring up the people the Republicans thought they already had. So he is a way for people who thought [Donald] Trump was not really conservative to say, well, okay, here's a conservative guy.
-- Mark Colvin

#People #Guy #Way

Meanwhile, the Ice Storm was still in development, And that was something I really wanted to do, and frankly I don't think I was ready to do a big production like this

OK, the rule is, you can [make love to] an elephant if you want to, but if you do you can't cover the circus.

One can't have it both ways and both ways is the only way I want it.

People should pay more attention. Everyone wants attention, but no one wants to give attention.

Today I am in control because I want to be. I have my fingers on the switch, but have lived a lifetime ignoring the control I have over my own world. Today is different.

What shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own?

Reputation is like fine china: Once broken it's very hard to repair.

Henri IV's feet and armpits enjoyed an international reputation.

I think my reputation will look after itself," Holmes said. "If they hang me, Watson, I shall leave it to you to persuade your readers that the whole thing was a misunderstanding.

Not necessarily reputation, rank, societal position or status,but the happiness and enjoyment that a person pretends or fakes to derive with his possessed money or wealth or both make largely others jealous and envious of him.