Few things concentrate the mind more efficiently than the necessity of saying what you mean. It brings you face to face with what you are talking about, what you are actually proposing. It gets you away from the catch phrases… — Edwin Newman Copy Share Image
Language is in decline. Not only has eloquence departed but simple, direct speech as well, though pomposity and banality have not. — Edwin Newman Copy Share Image
Those for whom words have lost their value are likely to find that ideas have also lost their value. — Edwin Newman Copy Share Image
In a decade, America's mighty rivers will have reached the boiling point. — Edwin Newman Copy Share Image
Many Americans feel themselves inferior in the presence of anyone with an English accent, which is why an English accent has become fashionable in… — Edwin Newman Copy Share Image
To harness the power of television for the education of our nation's children, everyone must get involved - television programmers, government leaders, teachers, and… — Edwin Newman Copy Share Image
Few things concentrate the mind more efficiently than the necessity of saying what you mean. It brings you face to face with what you… — Edwin Newman Copy Share Image
We live in a big and marvelously varied world. Television ought to reflect that. — Edwin Newman Copy Share Image
Not communicating saves energy; it keeps people from worrying about things they cannot do anything about; and it eliminates an enormous amount of useless… — Edwin Newman Copy Share Image
William F. Buckley, Jr. does not speak so much as exhale, but he exhales polysyllabically, and the results are remarkable. — Edwin Newman Copy Share Image
William F. Buckley, Jr. does not so much speak as exhale, but he exhales polysyllabically, and the results are remarkable. — Edwin Newman Copy Share Image
Will America be the death of English? I'm glad I asked me that. My well-thought-out mature judgment is that it will. — Edwin Newman Copy Share Image
Abraham Lincoln was on the side of the social scientists when he said, "God must have loved the people of lower and middle socioeconomic… — Edwin Newman Copy Share Image
Vice-President Ford, possibly preparing for higher duties, assessed Kissinger's part in the Syrian-Israeli troop disengagement as "the great diplomatic triumph of this century or… — Edwin Newman Copy Share Image
In Washington, as we learned from the White House transcripts, a president may speak of kicking butts, call a problem a can of worms,… — Edwin Newman Copy Share Image
