Quotes by Kingman Brewster

I'm very curious to know what the hell they're saying on the phone, but I'd be more worried if they weren't talking.
– Kingman Brewster
If I take refuge in ambiguity, I assure you that it's quite conscious.
– Kingman Brewster
Incomprehensible jargon is the hallmark of a profession.
– Kingman Brewster
It is satisfying for the descendant of a dissident refugee from Elizabeth I to present his credentials to Elizabeth II.
– Kingman Brewster
It won't make for a quiet life but it will make for an interesting paper vastly more significant because it is doing something only a daily paper can do.
– Kingman Brewster
Judgment is more than skill. It sets forth on intellectual seas beyond the shores of hard indisputable factual information.
– Kingman Brewster
Maybe you are the cool generation If coolness means a capacity to stay calm and use your head in the service of ends passionately believed in, then it has my admiration.
– Kingman Brewster
The function of a briefing paper is to prevent the ambassador from saying something dreadfully indiscreet. I sometimes think its true object is to prevent the ambassador from saying anything at all.
– Kingman Brewster
The newspaper fits the reader's program while the listener must fit the broadcaster's program.
– Kingman Brewster
There is no greater challenge than to have someone relying upon you; no greater satisfaction than to vindicate his expectation.
– Kingman Brewster
Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of displeasure.
– Kingman Brewster
We all live in a televised goldfish bowl.
– Kingman Brewster
While the spoken word can travel faster, you can't take it home in your hand. Only the written word can be absorbed wholly at the convenience of the reader.
– Kingman Brewster