Quotes About Current

journalism is the first draft of history

Michael Faraday demonstrated that if you push a magnet through a coil of wire, an electric current flows. Conversely, if you pass an electric current through a wire it can deflect a nearby magnetic compass. From this, Faraday deduced that electric currents create magnetic fields, and moving magnetic fields create electric currents. Thus was electromagnetism discovered, unifying electricity and magnetism.

I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.

There is in each of us a stream of tendency, whether you choose to call it philosophy or not, which gives coherence and direction to thought and action. Judges cannot escape that current any more than other mortals.

Because of the increase in life longevity, America can now assume that at any given time three, and perhaps four, former presidents will still be alive, even when the current president is occupying the White House.

I've got so much going on in my day job. And I've been around politics enough to know all the swirl that's fit to print, and so I focus on the reality of the here and now.

As a senator, I will prioritize overturning the current system and restoring openness and integrity to our government to return power to the people.

I think people enjoyed LA Law so much, because it was the first show that delved into current events through the prism of the law.

I'm fascinated by current events and the privilege of trying to share it with other people and tell a story.

You can't be in a bubble being a producer. You have to keep up on what's happening at all times.

Politics isn't something that really interested me; I, of course, care about what's going on in the world, but so much of political discourse now is not necessarily about doing what's right.

I especially love right-now sci-fi: stuff that happens in current time but incorporates a scientific breakthrough that is currently being explored.

I can't say I follow politics extremely closely, but I'm definitely aware of what's going on in the world.

The big story of the day is always going to be driven by what's happened and by the facts and the events.

I'm happy to pay my fair share - which is whatever the tax is right now.

I read Google News and use NetNewsWire to keep up with general and tech news.

One of the biggest problems that software developers face is that technology changes rapidly. It is very hard to stay current.

The whole idea of television news or any kind of news is to inform people about things they need to know about.

A sensible way to begin a discussion of that greater good is to focus on the current conditions within the human family and on the state of the larger living world.

Orthodoxy is a dam that is built by persons who think they have reached the ultimate in human thought, and that there will never be anything as good. They are finding that it is easier to become interested in the dam than in the great current that it is holding back. These

The obscurest epoch is today.

Evil is everywhere and nowhere at the same time these days. You only have to read the papers to know there's no escaping it.

but a powerful current of anger was also directed toward the West, which they saw as an enabling force behind the repressive regime.