Gumbel Bryant Quotes & Sayings

I once read that the only way to enjoy life is to observe everything with a sense of detached amusement. I don't always do that, but it serves you well to keep it in mind. — Bryant Gumbel

If I'm in a room with 100 people, will I be able to find one person I'd like to have dinner with? Probably not. — Bryant Gumbel

I feel responsibility for a lot of things that I manage to touch. — Bryant Gumbel

Not all is silent in the halls of the dead and the rooms of ruin. Even now some of the stuff the Old Ones left behind still works. And that's really the horror of it, wouldn't you say? Yes. The exact horror of it. — Stephen King

But after all, to kind of like people, doc, puts you in a pretty privileged class for a start
so few citizens can afford to really kinda like people. — Doris Lessing

I still start to get panicky each morning before I go on television. I'll say, 'I'm in awful shape, something is wrong,' and if I start to look like I'm going off the deep end, Jimmy Straka, the stage manager, will say, 'You're all right. Calm down.' Then Bryant Gumbel will grab me by the leg or something. — Willard Scott

Bryant Gumbel's ego has applied for statehood. And if it's accepted, it will be the fifth-largest. — Willard Scott

I don't want to wait until something happens to see who my friends are. — Bryant Gumbel

Largely as a result of the policies and priorities of the Reagan administration, more people are becoming poor and staying poor in this country than at any time since World War II. — Bryant Gumbel

The bombing in Oklahoma City has focused renewed attention on the rhetoric that's been coming from the right and those who cater to angry white men. Right-wing talk show hosts like Rush Limbaugh, Bob Grant, Oliver North, G. Gordon Liddy, Michael Reagan and others take to the air every day with basically the same format: Detail a problem, blame the government or a group and invite invective from like-minded people. Never do most of the radio hosts encourage outright violence, but the extent to which their attitudes may embolden or encourage some extremists has clearly become an issue. — Bryant Gumbel

In the first two years this is a man [Clinton] who tried his best to balance the budget, to reform health care, to fight for gay rights, to support personal freedoms. Couldn't those be considered doing the right things, evidence of true character? — Bryant Gumbel

But perhaps that's why we take snaps ... to provide false evidence to underpin the false claim that we were happy. Because the thought that we weren't happy at least for some time during our lives is unbearable. Adults order children to smile in the photos, involve them in the lie, so we smile, we feign happiness. — Jo Nesbo

Chips with every damn thing. You breed babies and you eat chips with everything. — Arnold Wesker

Your emotions are exposed when you play golf: humility, pride, anger, it all comes out with each swing. You lay it all on the line. — Bryant Gumbel

People like Bryant Gumbel and Bob Costas are terrific broadcasters because they get challenged every day. — John Tesh

I'm still going to do television. I'm just not going to do morning television. I would like to do some things that satisfy interests, private interests. — Bryant Gumbel

I have been a sports fan my whole life. To be able to talk about sports in an intelligent, journalistic fashion and to do things of a serious nature is a dream job. — Bryant Gumbel

It's not that I dislike many people. It's just that I don't like many people. — Bryant Gumbel

The great secret of doctors, known only to their wives, but still hidden from the public, is that most things get better by themselves; most things, in fact, are better in the morning. — Lewis Thomas

My mom sees her sons as baby boys. Well, I stopped being her baby boy a long time ago. — Bryant Gumbel

The bottom line is more tax money is going to be needed. Just how much will be the primary issue on the agenda when Congressional leaders meet with the President later today, Wednesday, May the 9th, 1990. And good morning, welcome to Today. It's a Wednesday morning, a day when the budget picture, frankly, seems gloomier than ever. It now seems the time has come to pay the fiddler for our costly dance of the Reagan years. — Bryant Gumbel

Success takes the courage to know who you really are and be comfortable with that. — Bryant Gumbel

The British Empire passed quickly and with less humiliation than its French and Dutch counterparts, but decades later, the vicious politics of partition still seems to define India and Pakistan. — Pankaj Mishra

I hate to agree with Thorne," said Cinder, "I mean, I really hate to agree with him, but — Marissa Meyer

My golden rules for looking good are to moisturise to ridiculousness with a really rich moisturiser. And I always take my make-up off before going to bed. — Twiggy

Though part of me had always wanted to be a comedian, another part of me had always wanted to be Bryant Gumbel or Dan Rather. — Chris Rock

Live your life with a purpose beyond yourself,
and you'll find that the world is
as bold and broad as
the interests that
brought you here ... — Bryant Gumbel

The other sports are just sports. Baseball is a love. — Bryant Gumbel

How can you rank BYU No. 1? Who'd they play - Bo Diddley Tech? — Bryant Gumbel

Take off the dress. — Samantha Young

I feel young, but my body doesn't agree. — Bryant Gumbel

If I'm a young black man in South Central L.A., where poverty is rampant and unemployment is skyrocketing, I see that Washington's promises of a year ago have gone unfulfilled, I see that perhaps for a second time, the court's inability to mete out justice in a blind fashion, why shouldn't I vent my anger? — Bryant Gumbel

Bryant Gumbel is thrilled about his CBS deal and can't wait to start alienating the staff of an entirely new network. — Craig Kilborn

You'll never see me working five days a week again. — Bryant Gumbel

She wouldn't be helpless, not ever, not if she could see a way out. She wouldn't allow that to happen. She could see that being helpless in a situation like this was dangerously close to becoming just plain less — Blue Balliett

There is a lot to life, and a lot more than just television to life. — Bryant Gumbel

We are essentially in the business of telling stories. We would like to think that most of our stories are basically human stories with sports as a backdrop. — Bryant Gumbel

Putting styles on lock, and making beats by the bundle,
Scooping more props than Bryant Gumbel ... and staying humble. — Pete Rock