Anchors Quotes

The decision to use recognition as an on-the-spot bonus instead of merely pay increases is a fascinating one, because pay increases can create new mental anchors for how much the person feels happy earning, whereas the social recognition program is ongoing, unexpected, and harder to form a mental anchor around.

Andrew Carnegie loved libraries; he knew their importance to an educated society and as anchors to our communities. And so, just as some loyal baseball fans travel to attend games at all 30 major league stadiums, over the last decade or so, I have slowly, casually, visited Carnegie libraries whenever I am on the road.

Since most of ‘Mean Girls’ consists of the outsider Cady observing the tribal rites of her new setting and laying it all out in narration, this movie is just like home for the meticulous and ruthless deadpan that Ms. Fey has perfected for the satirical ‘S.N.L.’ newscast in which she and Jimmy Fallon are the anchors.

I’d watch the news with my dad, and he’d quietly mock the anchors. An anchorman might say, ‘Police are searching for…’ and my dad would say in the anchorman’s voice, ‘the man who gave me this haircut.’ This was in the real Ron Burgundy ’70s. And I would laugh and start doing it myself.

I do have six anchors put in my labrum; I tore it in half, so it was pretty major surgery.

My first shift in broadcasting was 2-11 A.M., doing lots of grunt work and running the TelePrompTer for the morning anchors. Luckily, I fell in love the minute I walked into the newsroom, and I’ve never gotten over that.

The countdown reached ten seconds and I could almost hear an invisible crescendo of stirring background music. ‘Anchors aweigh!’ Five, four, three, two, one… and we had ignition!

The TV weatherman has always been one of the best, most secure jobs. They change anchors, they change the set, producers come and go. But the weather person hangs on forever!

I may have a very visible job that allows more than a million viewers to invite me and my fellow anchors into their homes every morning, but that doesn’t make me famous, nor does my job entitle me to any kind of special privileges.

Language also encodes our past. We want to know who we are. To know who we are, we have to know who we used to be. Consequently, our literature, written in the past, anchors us in that past.

With all its being, the Labor Party supports Israel as a Jewish and democratic state. Labor built the state, and its leaders formulated the Declaration of Independence, the foundational document that anchors Israel as a Jewish state.

There are great news anchors; they’re probably very smart, but they’re not talking to the audience like real people. They’re just reading from a teleprompter.

Viewers don’t see more of anchors because we shoot only once a week and it’s aired across three months; so, you always feel that a certain person is only anchoring. I’ve been acting for fifteen years and hosting for seven years, but I haven’t done a soap, so a lot of people tend to think I’m not acting anymore.

Get into the habit of imagining an alternate scenario. By posing such ‘imagine if’ questions… we can distance ourselves from the frames, cues, anchors and rhetoric that might be affecting us.

The older generation grew up on blow-dried anchors, plastic politicians, and an ocean of pretense. Realness seems unvarnished and unpolished to them.

TV journalism is a much more collaborative, horizontal business than print reporting. It has to be, because of the logistics. Anchors are wholly dependent on producers to do all the hustling.

The anchors now made are contrived so as to sink into the ground as soon as they reach it, and to hold a great strain before they can be loosened or dislodged from their station.

My mother had sent my picture for a TV contest seeking anchors, and I won.

Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life.

I’ve worked with Ed Bradley, Dan Rather and lots of different local news anchors.

Anchors are those people in your life who remind you of who you are – your values, aspirations, and worth – even when you forget. Keep them close and always let them know how much they mean to you.

The anchors of the Arab consensus have long been Egypt and Saudi Arabia, and both are now weakened forces in Arab politics and diplomacy.

Working out anchors my day.

I might have been one of the first ‘SportsCenter’ anchors that complained that I wrote this great lead-in setting up a highlight, and that as I’m doing it, on camera, the final score is scrolling underneath my head.

I don’t want the news to be patriotic. I don’t want to see flags on the lapels of the anchors. I don’t want any of that.

The reality is that diversity as an overall subject has to continue to be addressed onscreen. That goes beyond having a gay superhero. There should be a black superhero, a Latino superhero and, while we’re at it, we still aren’t seeing nearly enough women behind the scenes and as the anchors of movies.

I tend to relate more to people on television who are just themselves, for good or for bad, than I do to someone who I believe is putting on some sort of persona. The anchorman on ‘The Simpsons’ is a reasonable facsimile of some anchors who have that problem.

I watched the Portuguese TV anchors talking about what was happening all over the world and I just thought they were so knowledgeable and the most interesting and incredible people in the world.

If anything, I believe, television anchors have become parodies of themselves, self-caricatures if such a thing is possible. And I’d dismiss it all with a scornful laugh if broadcast news were not so dangerous in fanning misogyny, communalism, fake news and divisiveness.

I don’t trust CNN anchors.

Do you know what White House correspondents call actors who pose as reporters? Anchors.

When Nirvana became popular, you could very easily slip and get lost during that storm. I fortunately had really heavy anchors – old friends, family.

A toned backside truly anchors your physique and can make the difference between jeans fitting and jeans really fitting.

Those who have the most power – whether famous TV anchors, rich Hollywood moguls, judges, Members of Congress, or the president of the United States – must decide how to exert that power: for corruption or for good.

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

Not a day goes by that I don’t look at myself in the mirror and ask God, ‘Why me? Why did you choose me, Ainsley Earhardt from Columbia, South Carolina, to be one of a handful of female national news anchors?’

I’m single, footloose and fancy free, I have no responsibilities, no anchors. Work, friendship and self-improvement, that’s me.

I’ve always maintained that RD Burman and Sanjeev Kumar were my two anchors.

I’ve never been in a focus-group meeting. I wonder how many anchors can say that.

Those who have a knowledge of One America would know that there were several models and actresses working there just as anchors. And they didn’t get their own political talk shows.