Good Night And Good Luck Quotes

We will not be driven by fear … if we remember that we are not descended from fearful men.

Capote, of course, addressed very similar themes to Good Night and Good Luck. Both films are about determined journalists defying obstacles in a relentless pursuit of the truth. Needless to say, both are period pieces.

Diligence is the mother of good luck.

We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We must remember always that accusation is not proof and that conviction depends upon evidence and due process of law. We will not walk in fear, one of another.

Sometimes I’m so tired, I look down at what I’m wearing, and if it’s comfortable enough to sleep in, I don’t even make it into my pajamas. I’m looking down, and I’m like, ‘T-shirt and stretchy pants? Yup, that’s fine. It’s pajama-y, good night.’

T-shirt and stretchy pants? Yup, that’s fine. It’s pajama-y, good night.

This instrument [radio] can teach. It can illuminate, yes, and it can even inspire. But it can do so only to the extent that humans are determined to use it to those ends. Otherwise it’s nothing but wires and lights in a box.

I sometimes think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.

In the US, the 50s and 60s marked the documentary’s golden age, especially at CBS, where pioneering televison journalist Edward R Murrow, immortalised in George Clooney’s Good Night, and Good Luck, produced such landmark investigations as the CBS Reports programme Hunger in America.

Good night, and good luck.

It’s hard these days to have a conversation, at least it is for me, about [Truman]Capote without “Good Night, and Good Luck” coming up in the same conversation.

Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.

Do not go gently into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Do not go gentle into that good night.

We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.

The world is for those who make their dreams come true.

Just once in a while, let us exalt the importance of ideas and information.