Eyewitness Quotes

...history can carry on no successful competition with news, in the matter of sharp interest. When an eye-witness sets down in narrative form some extraordinary occurrence which he has witnessed, that is news -- that is the news form, and its interest is absolutely indestructible; time can have no deteriorating effect upon that episode.

Men trust their ears less than their eyes.

My role is to bear witness and to bring back what people see and tell you.

We are entering an age where people can claim to know more about what really happened than the people who were there. Where people will dismiss eyewitness accounts, on the basis of their gut feelings; where they will refute scientific discoveries because the scientist just doesn't look trustworthy.

I write as a witness to what I have seen.

I do not think that reports should be subpoenaed anything close to routinely.

The eyes are more exact witnesses than the ears.

Whenever one assumes the role of historian, friendship and enmities have to be forgotten. Often one has to bestow on adversaries the highest praise…. I hope to satisfy … by appealing to the evidence of actual events and of eyewitnesses.

I was not inside the bank. But I am still not the only witness.

Discovering witnesses is just as important as catching criminals.

Many a man who is willing to be shot for his belief in a miracle would have doubted, had he been present at the miracle itself.

Different men often see the same subject in different lights

I appeal to your own eyes as my witness and judge.

My son tells me, 'Do you realize you are the last one? The last person who was an eyewitness to the golden age?' Young people, even in Hollywood, ask me, 'Were you really married to Humphrey Bogart?' 'Well, yes, I think I was,' I reply. You realize yourself when you start reflecting - because I don't live in the past, although your past is so much a part of what you are - that you can't ignore it. But I don't look at scrapbooks. I could show you some, but I'd have to climb ladders, and I can't climb

This is the year 1492. I am eighty-two years of age. The things I am going to tell you are things which I saw myself as a child and as a youth.

When you listen to a witness, you become a witness.

Testimony should be a philosophical problem and not limited to legal or historical contexts where it refers to the account of a witness who reports what he has seen.

One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.

I'm interested in such things as the difference between how we perceive the world and what the world turns out to be. The difference is between the stories we tell others and the stories we tell ourselves. There is a wonderful Russian saying, which I use as the epigraph of one of my novels, which goes, He lies like an eyewitness. Which is very sly, clever and true.

I know what you're thinking 'Did he fire six shots or only five?

I had been an eyewitness to a truly historic moment in American pop culture.