Anchor Quotes

See also Core English Vocabulary (A) Quotes

"I`ve worked with a lot of great glamorous girls in movies and the theater. And I`ll admit, I`ve often thought it would be wonderful to be a femme fatale. But then I`d always come back to thinking that if they only had what I`ve had - a family, real love, an anchor - they would have been so much happier during all the hours when the marquees and the floodlights are dark."

- Eve Arden

"You know what is good about these Dixie Chicks burnings or bashings? It`s a wonderful, wonderful way for really stupid people to hook up. They meet, they throw some things on the fire, they talk about Vin Diesel, they tell stories about who their favorite Fox anchor is, they exchange phone numbers and in some cases has led to marriages."

- Janeane Garofalo

CBS news anchor Dan Rather has interviewed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. When asked what it was like to talk to a crazy man, Saddam said, `It`s not so bad.`

- Conan O'Brien

Faith is a force, a powerful force. To me, it`s been like an anchor to windward - something that`s seen me through troubled times and some personal tragedies and also through the good times and success and the happy times.

- Gregory Peck

Being in an ensemble is a good experience, but I don`t feel like I need any more of those experiences. I love the principle, but I also feel like I want to take up more space. It`s hard because it can, when you`re not there every day or in every scene, be tricky to anchor down a character.

- Lili Taylor

It`s hard to see it now -- but keep in mind, we`re at the beginning of the process. Eventually, this will be the northern anchor of the river and a new entrance to the city.

- Stephen Bishop

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

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.

- Anderson Cooper

Professionally, I remember Cronkite as a kid growing up, and more so for me, the importance of Cronkite was not him sitting there at the anchor desk, but him out there doing things.

- Ed Bradley

Some people continue to pretend that anchor people are reporters.

- Peter Jennings

I`ve worked with a lot of great glamorous girls in movies and the theater. And I`ll admit, I`ve often thought it would be wonderful to be a femme fatale. But then I`d always come back to thinking that if they only had what I`ve had - a family, real love, an anchor - they would have been so much happier during all the hours when the marquees and the floodlights are dark.

- Eve Arden

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

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

We`ve got a lot of key reserves coming back, and a lot of young players waiting to move up. I feel like we`re going to be the anchor of the team.

- Michael Carter

A TV anchor has as much job security as a basketball coach.

- Terry Wood

We will do some `build it and they will come` in some of our markets, but for the most part, we are looking for anchor tenants like a cellular carrier or large enterprise customer in a particular market. Once we sign a deal with a big customer, then we can go in and begin to look at building out additional infrastructure.

- John Grady

Stood off and on during the night, determining not to come to anchor till morning, fearing to meet with shoals; continued our course in the morning; and as the island was found to be six or seven leagues distant, and the tide was against us, it was noon when we arrived there.

- Christopher Columbus

NBC anchor Brian Williams is a standup comic in disguise.

- Leonard Maltin

Cast all your cares on God; that anchor holds.

- A.J. Davis

It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled sea of thought.

- Adam Braidwood

To act is to anchor in the imminent future.

- Alderman Dana McLendon

Amidst the confusion of the times, the conflicts of conscience, and the turmoil of daily living, an abiding faith becomes an anchor to our lives.

- Andrew DiPasquale

So, I was in a sense like a news anchor while reporters were out there trying to gather the information. That`s what happened initially anyway.

- Andrew Rotherham

A faithful companion is a sure anchor.

- Anja Osthoff

(The second story concerned a cement anchor police found in Peterson`s warehouse. Rocha said Peterson explained that he) used to make cement anchors. ... He said, `Well, I used the rest as cement for my driveway.`

- Barbara Crass