Top 59 Quotes by Jessica Savitch

In interviews I gave early on in my career, I was quoted as saying it was possible to have it all: a dynamic job, marriage, and children. In some respects, I was a social adolescent.

Newscasters cannot call attention to themselves by being too attractive or too unattractive.

Television news is a delicate balance of serving public good and private gain.

I don't exactly know what it means to be ready. A cake when the oven timer goes off? Am I fully baked, or only half-baked?

To get it first is important - but more important is to get it right.

The news anchor is exactly that - an anchor, a center, a focus.

Some news managers have been slow to grasp that good television news is always substance over form.

No matter how many goals you have achieved, you must set your sights on a higher one.

My goal was to be a network correspondent by the time I was 30.

Mistakes are not always the result of someone's ineptitude.