Anchors Quotes

• Once the anchor of reason has been cut, ones craft may go anywhere. One may become a St Francis or equally a Hitler.

  Brand Blanshard

  Cutting, Crafts, May

  Brand Blanshard (2014). “Reason and Analysis”, p.47, Routledge

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• Being an anchor is not just a matter of sitting in front of a camera and looking pretty.

  David Brinkley

  Matter, Cameras, Sitting

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• Hope gives the heart wings; the
  soul, an anchor.

  Janet Todd

  Heart, Wings, Giving

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• Up anchor! Up anchor!
  Set sail and away!
  The ventures of dreamland
  Are thine for a day.

  Silas Weir Mitchell

  Dream, Venture, Sail

  Silas Weir Mitchell (1914). “The Complete Poems of S. Weir Mitchell”, Library of Alexandria

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• I recognize the Republican Party as the sheet anchor of the colored man's political hopes and the ark of his safety.

  Frederick Douglass

  Party, Men, Safety

  Frederick Douglass' letter to men from Petersburg, Virginia (in the Frederick Douglass Papers at the Library of Congress), August 15, 1888.

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• The anchor holds in spite of the storm

  Ray Boltz

  Storm, Spite

  Song: The Anchor Holds, Album: Allegiance

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• Trust means you anchor your heart in the reality of God's awareness of your situation.

  James MacDonald

  Trust, God, Mean

  James MacDonald (2010). “10 Choices: A Proven Plan to Change Your Life Forever”, p.158, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The world reacts very strangely to people they see on TV, and I can begin to understand how anchor monsters are made. If you're not careful, you can become used to being treated as though you're special and begin to expect it. For a reporter, that's the kiss of death.

  Anderson Cooper

  Kissing, Power, People

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• I have my ethics and morals. I have my anchor point of what is right and wrong in real life, but I'm not afraid to entertain any and every aspect of personality in relationship to creating a character.

  Corin Nemec

  Relationship, Real, Character

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• So this anchoring in some way, in some important way in the past without repeating the past, but on the basis of the past building something new: that is what is important.

  Gunther Schuller

  Past, Important, Way

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• Amnesty is the magnet. Other magnets that you mentioned are anchor babies who get benefits in this country and employer deductions for employees, even if they are here illegally, which Mr. King is addressing.

  Virgil Goode

  Country, Baby, Kings

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• We have this morning dropped anchor, just off Williamstown.

  William John Wills

  Morning

  William John Wills (1863). “A Successful Exploration Through the Interior of Australia: From Melbourne to the Gulf of Carpentaria”, p.16, London : R. Bentley

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• NBC anchor Brian Williams is a standup comic in disguise.

  Leonard Maltin

  Nbc, Comic, Brian

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• The current wisdom now is that if the three networks are covering the news the same way the difference is the anchor people. I think that won't be true in the future.

  Roone Arledge

  Thinking, Differences, People

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• A lot of these angles are really about trying to mimic broadcast sports angles in order to anchor the scene, to sort of normalize it before it becomes abstracted.

  Matthew Barney

  Sports, Order, Trying

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• When I first anchored in 1970, I had never seen a woman anchor a news show.

  Jessica Savitch

  News, Literature, Firsts

  Jessica Savitch (1983). “Anchorwoman”, Berkley

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• It is our hope that the AP program can serve as an anchor for increasing rigor in our schools. Rigor can be maintained while increasing student participation.

  Gaston Caperton

  School, Students, Program

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• Alone! Alone! No beacon, far or near! No chart, no compass, and no anchor stay!

  Ada Cambridge

  Compass, Beacons

  Ada Cambridge (2015). “The Manor House: The Hand in the Dark and Other Poems”, p.192, Library of Alexandria

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• Some people may have noticed the new computer shelf at the anchor desk. Rather than phone calls, we want to take real time e-mails, and we'll be starting that very soon.

  Catherine Crier

  Real, Phones, People

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• Some people continue to pretend that anchor people are reporters.

  Peter Jennings

  People, Reporters

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• Your Constitution is all sail and no anchor.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Inspirational, Funny, Sailing

  Letter to H.S. Randall, May 23, 1857.

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• I think I'd like to stay anchoring because, number one, I'm learning a lot, and I love it when I'm learning. And number two, I also have the luxury of a stable life.

  Linda Vester

  Thinking, Luxury, Numbers

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• Mystery writers' conventions are usually good, and this one has been excellent and extremely well prepared and thought out in advance. A lot of people have given their time and their skill, and a good deal of wit, and Anchorage has made us extraordinarily welcome.

  Anne Perry

  Skills, People, Welcome

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• To win respect, the networks seem to feel they have to keep absurdly overstating their anchors' reporting cred

  Tina Brown

  Winning, Feels, Seems

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• Me, my literary reputation is mostly abroad, but I am anchored here in New York. I can't think of any other place I'd rather die than here.

  Harold Brodkey

  New York, Thinking, Reputation

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