It is commonly agreed that children spend more hours per year watching television than in the classroom, and far less in actual conversation with their parents.
~By Paul Weyrich ~
Television has brought back murder into the home - where it belongs.
~By Alfred Hitchcock ~
I don't know if it's a movement, but the only thing new that's happening is that I think music and art and video and fashion are all kind of thrown into one big ball that's on television, and people see that all the time - you see a fusion of all those things.
~By Stephen Sprouse ~
We film in front of a live audience, and I was a theater actor before I got into television, so I like that.
~By Jillian Bach ~
Bill Hanna and I owe an awful lot to television, but we both got our start and built the first phase of our partnership in the movies.
~By Joseph Barbera ~
So no one should rely on television either for their knowledge of music or for news. There's just more going on. It's an adjunct to the written word, which I think is still the most important thing.
~By Kurt Loder ~
Al Gore clearly has the vision... it's a much better vision than that of George W. Bush.
~By Bill Bradley ~
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
~By Napoleon Hill ~
In musical theater you have to be very big and very animated, while film and television are more toned down.
~By Kevin Richardson ~
There's not a whole lot of events out there on television, especially in the years between Olympic Games.
~By Shannon Miller ~
I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.
~By Orson Welles ~
It seems to limit you; when you're working in an office, you're a creature in a small cell under somebody's supervision and surveillance.
~By Jack Vance ~
We didn't have television in those days, and many people didn't even have radios. My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening.
~By Beverly Cleary ~
Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America - not on the battlefields of Vietnam.
~By Marshall McLuhan ~
I like to stay home and watch television. The Game Show channel, mostly.
~By Harry Dean Stanton ~
Television's Mr. Filth: that's me.
~By Dennis Potter ~
In television, everything is gone with the speed of light, literally. It is no field for anybody with intimations of immortality.
~By Charles Kuralt ~
I humbly apologise for reality Television.
~By Cilla Black ~
On the one hand, young theatre directors were coming to television theatre, because they wanted to get closer to the cinema, despite having studied and worked for the theatre.
~By Andrzej Wajda ~
Whoever envisions not one but two series in New York?
~By Christopher Meloni ~
Conversation like television set on honeymoon... unnecessary.
~By Peter Sellers ~
Television won't be able to hold on to any market it captures after the first six months. People will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night.
~By Darryl F. Zanuck ~
I go to my physical therapist to keep fighting it and one of them told me if you don't use it, you lose it, but I know we're on television so I won't say what I would often say.
~By Teri Garr ~
A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station.
~By Abbie Hoffman ~
The funny thing about television is that once you start to do it you never get time to watch it.
~By Kevin Sorbo ~
If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.
~By John F. Kennedy ~
I probably would be continuing to do voice-overs, continuing to do cartoon shows, and at the same time I'd probably be on a sitcom or a dramatic television show.
~By Casey Kasem ~
I have always fought for ideas - until I learned that it isn't ideas but grief, struggle, and flashes of vision which enlighten.
~By Margaret Anderson ~
The AEC scientists were so narrowly focused on arming the United States for nuclear war that they failed to perceive facts - even widely known ones - that were outside their limited field of vision.
~By Barry Commoner ~
Since it was too difficult to get into the Screen Actor's Guild in New York, I moved to Miami in 1982 and started a successful career as a television commercial actress, obtaining my SAG card there.
~By Donna Rice ~
And I grew up watching all the British ones so when you hear that from an early age, it makes it much easier than you guys who don't grow up with Australian television or British television.
~By Rachel Griffiths ~
I don't have anything from the television series. I treasure the videotapes from Columbia House.
~By Mark Goddard ~
Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they're scraping the top of the barrel.
~By Gore Vidal ~
While theoretically and technically television may be feasible, commercially and financially it is an impossibility.
~By Lee De Forest ~
Both of our wars in Iraq were, on American television, largely bloodless.
~By Bruce Jackson ~
Every major food company now has an organic division. There's more capital going into organic agriculture than ever before.
~By Michael Pollan ~
My whole goal was to be able to work in television and film and maintain a normal life, never be in a tabloid.
~By Pauley Perrette ~
Conservatives sense a link between television and drugs, but they do not grasp the nature of this connection.
~By Christopher Lasch ~
Television enables you to be entertained in your home by people you wouldn't have in your home.
~By David Frost ~
There are moments when television systems are young and haven't formed properly, and there's room for lots of original stuff. Then things become more and more top-heavy with executives who are trying to guarantee the success of things.
~By Terry Gilliam ~
I want to do theater and I am looking forward to doing more Television and Movies. I also want to direct some plays in theater workshops for people with disabilities.
~By Chris Burke ~
All your losses will be made up to you in the resurrection, provided you continue faithful. By the vision of the Almighty I have seen it.
~By Joseph Smith, Jr. ~
That is a big danger, losing your inspiration. When I work in film and television I try to do each take a little differently. I never want to do the same thing twice, because then you're not being spontaneous, you're just recreating something.
~By Karl Urban ~
When you're doing that you lose your focus on the discipline of the business, and how you train people at Hamburger University, and everybody gets on a bigger, different vision, and they're not on the same page.
~By Jim Cantalupo ~
The main concept is that of an international solidarity expressed in practice through worldwide division of labor: free trade is the principal point in the program of internationalism.
~By Christian Lous Lange ~
This constitution recognises the need for social dialogue involving labour and management; it involves trade unions in the decision-making process; it has a social vision founded on social dialogue.
~By Jean-Pierre Raffarin ~
What is the harm of doing the right thing? What is the harm of doing our job as legislators and making sure we do not stick the entire bankruptcy community with these provisions that do not make any sense?
~By Russ Feingold ~
I can see now a vision emerging how Canada is going to profit in the future from our Arctic resources without destroying the environment on which it is all based.
~By Brian Mulroney ~
I think it's impossible for any of us not to find television, and the political process at its best on television, compelling.
~By Peter Jennings ~
A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing.
~By Charles M. Schwab ~
Leaders of the future will have to be visionary and be able to bring people in - real communicators. These are things that women bring to leadership and executive positions, and it's going to be incredibly valuable and incredibly in demand.
~By Anita Borg ~
Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.
~By Salvador Dali ~
Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other; it is something which goes much further than that to provide a glimpse of our vision of the world.
~By Tahar Ben Jelloun ~
Kennedy did not have to run the risk of having his ideas and his words shortened and adulterated by a correspondent. This was the television era, not only in campaigning, but in holding the presidency.
~By Hugh Sidey ~
The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.
~By Helen Keller ~
Everything we talk about is about beating the Packers, the Bears and the Vikings. Obviously there are other teams in the league, but if you can dominate and be on top of your division you are always in the playoff hunt. It's time for us to win that thing.
~By Steve Mariucci ~
I personally don't have a problem with naked bodies on television.
~By Lesley-Anne Down ~
You cannot escape the results of your thoughts. Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain or rise with your thoughts, your vision, your ideal. You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration.
~By James Lane Allen ~
Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
~By Martha Graham ~
With the supermarket as our temple and the singing commercial as our litany, are we likely to fire the world with an irresistible vision of America's exalted purpose and inspiring way of life?
~By Adlai Stevenson ~
Television is a golden goose that lays scrambled eggs; and it is futile and probably fatal to beat it for not laying caviar. Anyway, more people like scrambled eggs than caviar.
~By Lee Loevinger ~
There is no way you can get people to believe you on screen if they know who you really are through television.
~By Jack Nicholson ~
Redd Foxx was the same gruff old codger you saw on television.
~By Charley Pride ~
Or the other process that is important is that I compress longer sections of composed music, either found or made by myself, to such an extent that the rhythm becomes a timbre, and formal subdivisions become rhythm.
~By Karlheinz Stockhausen ~
I've got about 27 gigs right now. I've got radio, I've got television, I've got The Washington Post.
~By Tony Kornheiser ~
The latest wrinkle is on wrinkles. There is a widespread belief that women can't grow old in television news.
~By Jessica Savitch ~
I stand before you today because this vision of government as the engine of opportunity is what I believe in.
~By Eliot Spitzer ~
Bleak House is just the most astounding piece of work. There's huge, visionary poetry in it.
~By Simon Callow ~
Everything has been homogenized. Over time, with television and jet travel, everybody has blended together. Some of our wonderful charm has been lost.
~By Bruce Paltrow ~
But I think it's also hard to get into soccer here. I think purely on a time level on television as well because of the ad breaks. It's something to do with that as well. You can't show a complete soccer match here. Which I kind of find a bit of an odd thing.
~By Parminder Nagra ~
We are drawn to our television sets each April the way we are drawn to the scene of an accident.
~By Vincent Canby ~
I would not be opposed to devising a new system of pensions, in which one part was based on collective provision, but which also gave incentives for people to take out an additional, personal plan.
~By Jacques Delors ~
The downside of videos is that it will put my vision in front of other people, so they might not get the chance to create their own.
~By Carole King ~
I can only speak for myself, and hope people hear my words and see me on television speaking for myself. And, hopefully, they'll be able to make their own judgment. And at the end of the day, I just want my work to speak for itself.
~By Jennifer Lopez ~
Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
~By Alfred Hitchcock ~
The vision that you glorify in your mind, the ideal that you enthrone in your heart - this you will build your life by, and this you will become.
~By James Lane Allen ~
To pass to the deluge, and beyond it, and to come to close quarters with our proper division, the origin of Romance itself is a very debatable subject, or rather it is a subject which the wiser mind will hardly care to debate much.
~By George Saintsbury ~
The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.
~By Alice Walker ~
So the system we have in radio and television today is the direct result of government policies that have been made in our name, in the name of the people, on our behalf, but without our informed consent.
~By Robert McChesney ~
Those worship songs on the Christmas project will air on PBS television. That's highly unusual.
~By John Tesh ~
I have these visions of myself being thirty, thirty-five, forty having a family.
~By Nastassja Kinski ~
We owe a lot to Thomas Edison - if it wasn't for him, we'd be watching television by candlelight.
~By Milton Berle ~
Television sounded really different than the Ramones sounded really different than us sounded really different than Blondie sounded really different than the Sex Pistols.
~By David Byrne ~
Before I was shot, I always thought that I was more half-there than all-there - I always suspected that I was watching TV instead of living life. Right when I was being shot and ever since, I knew that I was watching television.
~By Andy Warhol ~
If we limit our vision to the real world, we will forever be fighting on the minus side of things, working only too make our photographs equal to what we see out there, but no better.
~By Galen Rowell ~
Successful organizing is based on the recognition that people get organized because they, too, have a vision.
~By Paul Wellstone ~
I liked television, and television liked me.
~By Joel Siegel ~
Internet mailing lists are like Fox television shows. They have really cool previews, and they get you all excited about them, but they just don't live up to their promises.
~By John Dobbin ~
Lost In Space is played on television somewhere in the world every day. It's been a cult show.
~By Mark Goddard ~
I never really wanted to be an actor. And that was the beginning of it, I began to write things down and eventually became a writer on a television show.
~By Barry Levinson ~
We are all one - or at least we should be - and it is our job, our duty, and our great challenge to fight the voices of division and seek the salve of reconciliation.
~By Roy Barnes ~
Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.
~By Jimmy Carter ~
Speech is the twin of my vision, it is unequal to measure itself, it provokes me forever, it says sarcastically, Walt you contain enough, why don't you let it out then?
~By Walt Whitman ~
The genius of America is that we are still a land of undiscovered shores, and we are at our best when we open our hearts and allow the night winds to bring renewed visions of great deeds.
~By Phil Bredesen ~
The Times has much less power than you think. I believe we attribute power to the media generally that it simply doesn't have. It's very convenient to blame the media, the same way we blame television for everything that's going wrong in society.
~By Michael Pollan ~
My parents found what I was interested in and encouraged me. They didn't put me in front of a television and buy lots of toys, the way some American parents do.
~By Nastassja Kinski ~
In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.
~By Richard M. Nixon ~
My command, less than ten thousand, had found the battle on the Plank road in retreat, little less than a panic. In a few hours we changed defeat to victory, the broken divisions of the Third Corps rallying in their rear.
~By James Longstreet ~
When the divine vision is attained, all appear equal; and there remains no distinction of good and bad, or of high and low.
~By Ramakrishna ~
Television broadcasts have, in the main, been more suggestive, less specific, more distant in their images than the print press: often you knew that lump was a dead body only because a chattering reporter told you it was.
~By Bruce Jackson ~
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