You may invite the entire 35th Division to your wedding if you want to. I guess it's going to be yours as well as mine. We might as well have the church full while we are at it. ~By Bess Truman ~
Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they're scraping the top of the barrel. ~By Gore Vidal ~
All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas! ~By T. E. Lawrence ~
An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision. ~By James Whistler ~
I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book. ~By Groucho Marx ~
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 ~
For me it's all about personal vision; is there something about a subject that uniquely speaks to me. ~By Leonard Nimoy ~
Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end. ~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
They meant abnormal. Divisions of the kind were fashionable at that time, and it was so easy to stifle one's need to help by deciding that help could neither be accepted nor understood. ~By Janet Frame ~
Humanity lives and always has lived on certain elemental provisions. ~By Charles Wagner ~
When I can't sleep, I'll start thinking about how many shows I've done, count up the number of television shows and movies. ~By Robert Wagner ~
Oh, I was never a businessman. I was a visionary, a dreamer. ~By Jim Bakker ~
I did a little theatre work after that and the following year I got another part in a television series. Then it was almost to the end of the year before I got more work. That was coming to terms with the reality of the vocation I had chosen. ~By Karl Urban ~
I did honest television. Real, live, honest television. That's what I did best. ~By Greg Garrison ~
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 ~
I think that I recall the nostalgic '50s: the start of early television and rock-and-roll, and I think everything seemed to get very generic. Not much has changed. ~By Rick Moranis ~
A film is a director's vision... there is, however, much input an actor or actress can have. ~By Natasha Richardson ~
In film and television we are oftentimes so pampered that the truths are withheld. ~By Charles Keating ~
One single vision fills all minds: that of our independence endangered. One single duty imposes itself upon our wills: the duty of stubborn resistance. ~By King Albert II ~
As mayor of San Francisco, I will provide the vision and work hard to make San Francisco a beautiful, well-planned city with excellent housing and transportation options. ~By Gavin Newsom ~
Anyone who has seen me spin that heavy, giant wheel on television knows that I'm not a steroid user. ~By Pat Sajak ~
The bosses of our mass media, press, radio, film and television, succeed in their aim of taking our minds off disaster. Thus, the distraction they offer demands the antidote of maximum concentration on disaster. ~By Ernst Fischer ~
A number of cases have been reported in which a dying individual has a vision of a person about whose death he or she did not know. ~By Stanislav Grof ~
In this age of globalization, instant real time media and television, everyone all over the world realizes that high energy usage equates with a high standard of living and wealth. ~By John Olver ~
I do it because I love acting, I love working, and whether it's radio, television, films, theater, I don't care as long as I can get out there and do it. ~By Joan Collins ~
I moved to LA and decided to do films and television, mainly because the theater in New York is totally dead. ~By Shirley Knight ~
The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent. ~By L. Neil Smith ~
I know nothing of God or the Devil. I have never seen a vision nor learned a secret that would damn or save my soul. ~By Anne Rice ~
To have my fan club. I am very proud of doing everything. I try to support my parents, friends and fans. I am also proud of my performing in the visual arts, and motion television. ~By Chris Burke ~
In the age of television, image becomes more important than substance. ~By S. I. Hayakawa ~
A campaign is about defining who you are - your vision and your opponent's vision. ~By Donna Brazile ~
A race is what zoologists term a variety or subdivision of a species. ~By J. Philippe Rushton ~
That is why I believe that art is so much more significant than either economics or philosophy. It is the direct measure of man's spiritual vision. ~By Herbert Read ~
True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision. ~By Edith Wharton ~
I've always wanted to be an actress, ever since I was a little girl. I always played the mom and I played my sister as the daughter. I wanted to be an actress on television and movies instead of just around the house. ~By Dakota Fanning ~
On average, Australians watch more than three hours of television a day, compared with 12 minutes a day spent by the average couple talking to each other. ~By Hugh Mackay ~
I'd like us to deliver a little message to all the men still out there who think it's the '50s, and coming home simply means watching television with a beer. ~By Patricia Richardson ~
In fact, the converse is true: At a time when the United States has been called on for a level of moral leadership, vision and inspiration not seen since World War II, we cannot afford to dissemble about crimes against humanity. ~By Adam Schiff ~
For me, this world of questions and the provisional, this chase after an answer that was always put off to the next day, all that was euphoric. I lived in the future. ~By Francois Jacob ~
Very often some of the religious miracle plays you see on television can be very corny, I find. And so simplistic. ~By Robert Duvall ~
Successful organizing is based on the recognition that people get organized because they, too, have a vision. ~By Paul Wellstone ~
The internet is a total inversion of television. It's the opposite. ~By Joel Hodgson ~
We need a new Latin American policy that is bold - different. We need to focus on building civil society, focus on the lack of infrastructure. We need look at ways to foster economic opportunity.There needs to be a more comprehensive economic vision in the region. ~By Mel Martinez ~
I had a vision how it should sound and I put all my knowledge into this product and it is a fantastic product. People still tell me that I have the best musical thing there. ~By Miroslav Vitous ~
I still think of myself as a stage actor. When I do film and television I try to implement what I was taught to do in theatre, to try to stretch into characters that are far from myself. ~By Tony Shalhoub ~
I doubt if the public thought of me as Christ when they next saw me as Temple Houston on television. ~By Jeffrey Hunter ~
Television wasn't prestigious. ~By Dorothy Malone ~
The relationships that people have - that are sexual, psychological, emotional - these relationships are not open to supervision by parents, schools, churches, or government. Nobody has any right to intervene at all in any kind of relationship like that. ~By Madalyn Murray O'Hair ~
With any child entering adolescence, one hunts for signs of health, is desperate for the smallest indication that the child's problems will never be important enough for a television movie. ~By Nora Ephron ~
In the works of man, everything is as poor as its author; vision is confined, means are limited, scope is restricted, movements are labored, and results are humdrum. ~By Joseph de Maistre ~
Personally, I don't think the film and television industries are run as well as they used to be. Oh sure, we've got great digital effects now but... where are the visionaries? ~By Bill Mumy ~
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 ~
When we did Top of the Pops for the third time, we decided to do it as a television program here called Come Dancing, which is not as rude as it sounds. ~By Neil Innes ~
Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society. ~By John Adams ~
America was established not to create wealth but to realize a vision, to realize an ideal - to discover and maintain liberty among men. ~By Woodrow Wilson ~
Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live! ~By Bob Marley ~
At the World Cup and even now at the Confederations Cup, our security provisions will ensure the greatest level of protection possible for all those participating - both inside and outside the stadiums. ~By Franz Beckenbauer ~
Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television. ~By Rita Mae Brown ~
To deny women directors, as I suspect is happening in the States, is to deny the feminine vision. ~By Jane Campion ~
The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this planet and our visions go rather further than that and our opportunities are unlimited. ~By Neil Armstrong ~
I am of opinion that it is highly requisite forthwith to pass a law, prohibiting upon great penalties all trade with our enemies, and more especially the supplying of them with arms, ammunition or provisions of any kind whatsoever. ~By William Shirley ~
I think television often has dismissed younger people. They figure, well, they're not really watching news, that's not our audience. ~By Kurt Loder ~
That was probably the stamp that went into my mind, because I worked in television for many years, doing that kind of music, so that really was my strong forte. ~By Skitch Henderson ~
After the tragedy, New Yorkers are more united than ever in their vision, as well as in appreciation what living in freedom means - and that if we stand together, we can accomplish anything. ~By George Pataki ~
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 ~
You know, many people have called me, friends from the nationalist camp, revisionists and so on, from around the world, have called me over the years - and now again because of what happened - and they are all very cynical about the police and the authorities. ~By Ernst Zundel ~
Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house. ~By Alfred Hitchcock ~
The network and local TV angle of broadcast television has received a black eye for not properly debating within the news issues that should be debated, instead of shuffling them of to television advertising. ~By Mark E. Hyman ~
What Washington needs is adult supervision. ~By Barack Obama ~
I think there has been a great deal of valuable revisionism in women's history. ~By Antonia Fraser ~
I was a very happy child, so to speak. But, since we didn't have video games or television, and very little radio, in terms of a form of entertainment, I used to read a lot and I would draw a lot, and those two things used to occupy my time. ~By Mako ~
Command that in no way there be in your household any who make strife, discord or divisions in the hostel, but all shall be of one accord, of one will as of one heart and one soul. ~By Robert Grosseteste ~
I got an early education from television. ~By Debra Wilson ~
But I think the image that's thrown out on television is a bad image. Because you see players who want to imitate hip-hop stars. And the NBA is taking advantage of the situation. ~By Oscar Robertson ~
Life is so fast these days, and we're exposed to so much information. Television makes us a witness to such misery. ~By Gates McFadden ~
You can't fool television viewers with dancing girls and flashing lights. ~By Bob Barker ~
Every weekend he'd have me come down to work on Dragnet, which by now was on television as well as radio. ~By Martin Milner ~
I got into television because I hated it so. I thought, there's some way of using this fabulous instrument to be of nurture to those who would watch and listen. ~By Jeff Greenfield ~
The writers led by Mike Scully are fantastic. And they're creating original stories that not only don't repeat what we've already done, they also don't repeat anything I've seen on television. ~By Matt Groening ~
Our coaches want to be a part of South Carolina football when they win it for the first time. When they win the division, when they win the SEC, win a major bowl game, etc. The opportunities to do it all for the first time here make it extra special. ~By Steve Spurrier ~
The Way is not a religion: Christianity is the end of religion. 'Religion' means here the division between sacred and secular concerns, other-worldliness, man's reaching toward God in a way which projects his own thoughts. ~By David Kirk ~
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 ~
Cherish your visions and your dreams, as they are the children of your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievements. ~By Napolean Hill ~
Let's use the energy of this historic year to propel us toward our shared vision of a greater Boston. ~By Thomas Menino ~
If I'm home with no chore at hand, and a package of books has come, the television set and the chess board and the unanswered mail will have to manage without me if one of the books is a detective story. ~By Rex Stout ~
At the University of Maryland, my first year I started off planning to major in art because I was interested in theatre design, stage design or television design. ~By Jim Henson ~
I have been blessed to see visions of eternity; and events in my future that have been important for me to foresee, have been revealed to me. ~By Clayton Christensen ~
Serial killers are everywhere! Well, perhaps not in our neighborhood, but on our television screens, at the movie theatres, and in rows and rows of books at our local Borders or Barnes and Noble Booksellers. ~By Pat Brown ~
If you have a vision, do something with it. ~By Anthony J. D'Angelo ~
You do show after show after show and get them done and on the air. Television devours material. We work a minimum of 12, 14 hours, and often 15, 18 hours a day. ~By Parker Stevenson ~
You get to that age where you're watching a lot of television, and who doesn't want to be on television? ~By Jason Marsden ~
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 ~
I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. 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 Pauline Kael ~
In addition to the clean coal provisions, the energy conference agreement contains provisions instrumental in helping increase conservation and lowering consumption. ~By Jerry Costello ~
The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labour in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour. ~By Frederic Raphael ~
Television is what made It's a Wonderful Life the classic it is today. ~By Leonard Maltin ~
I want to make smart television. ~By Michael Ironside ~
Vision looks inward and becomes duty. ~By Stephen Samuel Wise ~
Europe has a press that stresses opinions; America a press, radio, and television that emphasize news. ~By James Reston ~
Skepticism is an important historical tool. It is the starting point of all revision of hitherto accepted history. ~By Samuel E. Morison ~
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