Bill Kurtis Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“My personal philosophy is I'm running a 100-yard dash, and I haven't reached the end.”

“People from small towns have to have their edges roughed up to get along in the world. But as a street reporter, you learn quickly.”

“Politics is still the No. 1 sport in town and the scoreboard shows the U.S. attorney's office leading.”

“That's the reason I left the networks. I wanted to write and report and coanchor.”

“There's room for a diversity of ages on television.”

“Choose something you like to do. I know it's a cliche, and you've heard it over and over. But the reason is, you're going to have to work long and hard to achieve any success. You better like it or life is going to be terrible.”

“Think of it: television producers joining with newspapers to tell stories. It's journalism of the future. Advertising will follow the crowd - the 'crowd' being viewers and readers, of course, which could bring revenue back into journalism.”

“First of all, I'm a Midwesterner, being from Kansas, and Chicago is basically a big Midwestern cow town. It was built from the stockyards, and everyone is very friendly, and it's at the edge of the tallgrass prairie. There's just a good feel to it.”

“We know Roger Ebert loved the 'Sun-Times' and his career as a newspaper columnist. But ironically, it was his illness and losing his voice that caused him to explore another venue.”

“You know, in the beginning when your first payroll comes up and you have to borrow money to meet the payroll, you lose sleep the night before, and you say to yourself real fast, 'Well, maybe I should keep working a couple more years. It's sobering.”