Charles Osgood Quotations

Being Politically Correct means always having to say you're sorry.

There are no exceptions to the rule that everybody likes to be an exception to the rule.

I think the Mormon Tabernacle Choir is as great as it is because it's become it's a labor of love. They love what they do.

It's really an optimistic show. I think most of the people in this country are optimistic, too.

While some of us may know than others about certain things, it is the thinnest slice of all that is, or could be known. In that sense, we are all profoundly ignorant.

Babies are always more trouble than you thought and more wonderful.

The dimensions of the radio are truly to be treasured.

It was while making newspaper deliveries, trying to miss the bushes and hit the porch, that I first learned the importance of accuracy in journalism.

Life is beautiful but people are crazy.

Scientists are like atomic nuclei. They are more easily split than fused....

We spend a good part of our lives trying desperately to convince ourselves as well as everybody else that we know more than we really do.

Compared to the spoken word, a picture is a pitiful thing, indeed.

That's a number that in broadcasting is unimaginable.

We accentuate the positive and don't try to shock. I think there's a growing appetite for that. We're surrounded by shock.