Good Night And Good Luck Quotes

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.

We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.

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

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.

Default is not in our stars, but in ourselves.

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

Diligence is the mother of good luck.

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

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.’

Dream happy dreams. You are the only one who has ever touched my heart. It will always be yours. Sleep,my only love.

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

Do not go gentle into that good night.

Good night, and good luck.

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.

We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason.

We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty.

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.