Quotes on the topic: Sources


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Ian McKellen is brilliant with research. I paid really close attention to the sources he goes to. He's a very, very intelligent man.


Well, a lot of people don't want to be quoted. But keep in mind that Bob Woodward did all of his Watergate reporting with anonymous sources, and we know how that turned out.


The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.


For nearly 2,000 years, most people assumed that the only sources of tradition about Jesus and his disciples were the four gospels in the New Testament.


The most important thing I think teachers can do for young people is to make them inquiring, is to ensure that they know how to gather information, that they check information and they take their information from a multiplicity of sources.


People don't know the past, even though we live in literate societies, because they don't trust the sources of the past.


Some of the best ideas that we've invested in have made no sense to conventional sources.


We need to reduce our dependence on foreign sources of energy.


It simply is not cost affective to cover stories from independent sources.


Sure, some journalists use anonymous sources just because they're lazy and I think editors ought to insist on more precise identification even if they remain anonymous.


We live in an age of universal investigation, and of exploration of the sources of all movements.


And we've become very doubtful of our information sources, because they're all controlled by these huge multilateral corporations.


Using these unnamed sources, if done properly, carefully and fairly, provides more accountability in government.


I deal with first-hand sources. And give the people, even John Sununu, the opportunity to respond to what I've been told by first-hand sources.


Citizens in a democracy need diverse sources of news and information.


We met our partners in Europe, and they are signaling to us that supplies from traditional European gas production sources is falling, and falling substantially. Without new volumes of Russian gas, they simply cannot cope.


We need to manage holistically, embracing all of our science and traditional knowledge - all sources of knowledge. We can do that from the household to government to international relations.


Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.


The difficulty with the present state of affairs is that there is no legislation on the sources of funding for the Polish film industry. There is no legislation concerning filmmaking. And, there is no legislation on television that would be beneficial to filmmaking.


I'm a grown woman. I can come up with plenty of things that I've done and said or didn't say or failed to do that remain with me as sources of embarrassment.