Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
That was the overwhelming thing to me, the joy of carrying my portable typewriter to an event and trying to describe it.
Charles Kuralt
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Charles Kuralt
Age: 62 †
Born: 1934
Born: September 10
Died: 1997
Died: July 4
Correspondent
Journalist
News Presenter
New York City
New York
Charles Bishop Kuralt
Joy
Portable
Thing
Typewriter
Trying
Typewriters
Carrying
Overwhelming
Describe
Event
Events
More quotes by Charles Kuralt
I think I'd have done better if I had been a little more relaxed-if I had not pressed quite so hard, if I'd not lost quite so much sleep.
Charles Kuralt
You know, most reporters can't go back to the towns they wrote stories about. I never wrote that kind of story.
Charles Kuralt
I don't think one should ever come to my stage of life and have to look back and say, Gosh. I wish I hadn't spent all those years doing that job I was never really interested in.
Charles Kuralt
Just by luck, I picked good heroes to worship.
Charles Kuralt
I can't say that I've changed anybody's life, ever, and that's the real work of the world, if you want a better society.
Charles Kuralt
It takes an earthquake to remind us that we walk on the crust of an unfinished planet.
Charles Kuralt
I gained a great appreciation for what I would call the collective achievement of the country. I began thinking of America as a much more just and humane place than I would have thought if I'd been covering the civil rights struggle.
Charles Kuralt
I had a tight stomach all the time. I actually developed ulcers. I've learned better than to put all that internal pressure on myself.
Charles Kuralt
Since my retirement, I've spent a lot of time trying to help the School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina. A society like this just can't afford an uneducated underclass of citizens.
Charles Kuralt
The first books I was interested in were all about baseball. But I can't think of one single book that changed my life in any way.
Charles Kuralt
I think the feature reporter often walks a very thin line between a truly human story and one that slops over into mushiness or sentimentality.
Charles Kuralt
I used to think that driving, sleepless, ambitious labor was what you needed to succeed.
Charles Kuralt
The reality of any place is what its people remember of it.
Charles Kuralt
In television, everything is gone with the speed of light, literally. It is no field for anybody with intimations of immortality.
Charles Kuralt
It's that enthusiasm, that passion for what you're doing, that is most important.
Charles Kuralt
I believe that writing is derivative. I think good writing comes from good reading.
Charles Kuralt
I wasn't a very discriminating reader. I read just about everything that came along.
Charles Kuralt
I much preferred the peaceful life on the road, where I didn't have to ask embarrassing questions and do all the things real reporters have to do.
Charles Kuralt
Kids are always asked, What are you going to be when you grow up? I needed an answer. So instead of saying, a fireman, or a policeman, I said, a reporter.
Charles Kuralt
A true Southerner will never say in 2-3 words what can better be said in 10-12.
Charles Kuralt
