"Any good broadcast, not just an Olympic broadcast, should have texture to it. It should have information, should have some history, should have something that's offbeat, quirky, humorous, and where called for it, should have journalism, and judiciously it should also have commentary. That's my ideal."

-- Bob Costas

#Humorous Quotes #Quirky Quotes #Texture Quotes

“Though the man-apes often fought and wrestled one another, their disputes very seldom resulted in serious injuries. Having no claws or fighting canine teeth, and being well protected by hair, they could not inflict much harm on one another. In any event, they had little surplus energy for such unproductive behavior; snarling and threatening was a much more efficient way of asserting their points of view.”
“I've never had a very quiet voice. I tried in choir to make it smaller, and it just didn't work out. And I listened to a lot of soul music when I was growing up on my own accord. But I was mostly into Mama Cass and Gladys Knight, and they all had big voices too; just different than mine.”
“I donâ€™t want there to be things you â€œlove about meâ€, I want you to love â€œall of meâ€.”
“A man in the right, with God on his side, is in the majority, though he be alone, for God is multitudinous above all populations of the earth.”
“We're 5-3, that's what we are. We're 5-3 with three games left. Maybe it doesn't feel like it, but we've got to face reality. We're 5-3, and 8-3 looks a lot better than 5-6 or 6-5. We can make something of our season.”
“I think people have common sense and can tell what's real, what's right or what's wrong and work it out.”

Source : "Piper dreams" by Barbara Ellen, www.theguardian.com. September 7, 2008.
“I've worked with the Los Angeles Zoo for 45 years, and we have this magnificent photographer, Tad Motoyama. He takes these wonderful, wonderful animal pictures. All through the years he's given me copies of these pictures. Well, I have all these gorgeous ones, so I said, 'Tad, I want to do a book with your picture on one side.'”
“Moderation, honey, in all things but love and chocolate. That's my motto.”

Source : Barbara Bretton (2001). “A Soft Place to Fall”, Berkley

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