Morley Safer Quotes

You can never have enough garlic. With enough garlic, you can eat The New York Times.

The workplace has become a psychological battlefield and the millennials have the upper hand, because they are tech savvy, with every gadget imaginable almost becoming an extension of their bodies. They multitask, talk, walk, listen and type, and text. And their priorities are simple: they come first.

Kids' views are often just as valid as the teachers'. The best teachers are the ones that know that.

I would trust citizen journalism as much as I would trust citizen surgery.

The helicopter is a fine way to travel, but it induces a view of the world that only God and CEOs share on a regular basis.

We are on Sunday night because that is where they put us 30-odd years ago. I think we became a habit.

Arrogance and snobbism live in adjoining rooms and use a common currency.

What does it say about us that people who are considered defective are instinctively caring and compassionate?

Reality TV is sleazy, it is manipulative. It is as momentary as anything in popular culture.

I am not in this business as a calling. I don't do what I do to right any wrongs.

In his lifetime the great French impressionist painter Corot painted 2000 canvases. Of that number, 3000 are in the United States.

You can be a great president and be ridden with flaws. Of course we know that.

It is always disarming to treat with the enemy, so to speak.

The BBC is a perfect example of uncontrolled growth, [occupying] old churches and manor houses, the old Langham Hotel where Sherlock Holmes once met Moriarty and where this correspondent once shared an office with an 8-foot bathtub.

Who knows who will be on board? A couple of spies, for sure. At least one grand duke; a few beautiful woman, no doubt very rich and very troubled. Anything can happen and usually does on the Orient Express.

I really don't care what movie stars have to say about life.

What has reality shows got to do with reality? It is beyond unreality; there is nothing real about it.

Parents like the idea of kids, they just don't like their kids.

This [the movie Babe] is the way Americans want to think of pigs. Real-life 'Babes' see no sun in their limited lives, with no hay to lie on, no mud to roll in. The sows live in tiny cages, so narrow they can't even turn around. They live over metal grates, and their waste is pushed through slats beneath them and flushed into huge pits.

Some people, you have to grit your teeth in order to stay in the same room as them, but you get on and ask the questions you assume most of the people watching want to ask.

When I did that interview with Hepburn, the only ground rule was, you did not discuss Spencer Tracy. Spencer Tracy's widow is still alive, and she respected that.

Killing is the payoff of war.

After four or five different wars, I grew weary of that work, partly because in an open war, open to coverage, as Vietnam was, it's not that difficult, really.

[The] BBC was known as Auntie suggesting someone prudish and Victorian and that she still is on some days. On others she's a champagne-soaked floozie, her skirts in disarray, her mind in the gutter, and the mixture can be quite wonderful.

BBC Radio is a never-never land of broadcasting, a safe haven from commercial considerations, a honey pot for every scholar and every hare-brained nut to stick a finger into.