You sound like a man with a vision. Care to pass that bong over this way?
~By Paul Vixie ~
Television is so dictated by time constraints that you have to make quick decisions and go with them.
~By Ted Shackelford ~
Even the distribution of rations leaves much to be desired; the fatigue party, well-intentioned and sympathetic though it be, often finds itself short of provisions.
~By Patrick MacGill ~
It is one of the blessings of this world that few people see visions and dream dreams.
~By Zora Neale Hurston ~
I have also been attacked by my opponents as someone seeking to purge university faculties of leftist professors. This is false. The first provision of the Academic Bill of Rights is that no professor should be hired or fired because of his or her political views. I have never myself called for the firing of any professor for his or her political views, nor would I.
~By David Horowitz ~
Moderates shouldn't be nervous about Newt because he has a vision, he's laid it forward. He's fundamentally leading us in the way that middle class Americans want to go.
~By Pete du Pont ~
In television, everything is gone with the speed of light, literally. It is no field for anybody with intimations of immortality.
~By Charles Kuralt ~
People that complete other people's vision are understated.
~By Bjork ~
I was at a luncheon; and some cameras were trained on us. I dont' know whether they were for television or not. You know how little I know about cameras.
~By June Allyson ~
Interestingly that some of the characters did not turn out the way Jim and Allen had envisioned them.
~By Mary Tyler Moore ~
Networks decide who will have a chance to do shows, but it is the viewers who make the final decision of who stays and who goes. I am very fortunate, in that the television viewers of our country have decided that Bob Barker can stay.
~By Bob Barker ~
After I've sent my revised draft to my agent and editor, they suggest more improvement sand again, this revision phase can take anywhere from a few hours to a few months.
~By Margaret Haddix ~
Laura Bush went on national television during the week of my father's funeral and spoke out against embryonic stem cell research, pointing out that where Alzheimer's is concerned, we don't have proof that stem-cell treatment would be effective.
~By Patti Davis ~
I remember growing up with television, from the time it was just a test pattern, with maybe a little bit of programming once in a while.
~By Francis Ford Coppola ~
They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.
~By Khalil Gibran ~
That crossover of whether it's entertainment or news is the biggest crock of b.s. in television today, because it's all entertainment.
~By Vince McMahon ~
Television saved the movies. The Internet is going to save the news business.
~By Matt Drudge ~
Television has made dictatorship impossible but democracy unbearable.
~By Shimon Peres ~
My vision is to have an independent Kosovo, democratic, with a politically tolerant society and with a solid economy, integrated into the EU, the NATO and to continue with our good relations with the USA.
~By Ibrahim Rugova ~
I was in the tennis bubble. I wasn't thinking about the big picture. I didn't notice what they said on television, I wasn't reading any papers. I had a coach and a manager, and they kept me in the bubble.
~By Boris Becker ~
Mike Nichols asked if I would do The Birdcage. Mike and I are dear friends but he had never offered me a feature role in a movie. My television career opened other doors for me.
~By Christine Baranski ~
The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine.
~By Plato ~
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'm never at my best on television. There's a row of cameras between you and the audience, and it's very weird, very confusing.
~By Shania Twain ~
I'm actually about as famous as a fourth division footballer from the 70s.
~By Dylan Moran ~
A lot of the television industry is so cookie-cutter. In general, there are so many shows that are easy and bland to watch. You can tune in at any time and know exactly where you are in the story arc because it's pretty much the same every week.
~By Adam Baldwin ~
Their spirits and their visions are embodied in their craft. And so is mine. It's not Jane Saw Puff. But the clarity of Jane Saw Puff is precious to me.
~By Sharon Olds ~
I don't want to promote my own image either. I don't like going on television or mixing in literary circles.
~By Antonio Tabucchi ~
It's important to me that I look good on television because, let's face it, I'm single, and you want somebody to watch the show and fall in love with you.
~By Camryn Manheim ~
Carol Burnett was particularly funny. She swore for the first time on television on Larry Sanders.
~By Garry Shandling ~
When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what happened.'
~By Joe Biden ~
You know, when we were kids, we had to go to a theater to see a movie. And then television came in and you had to wait until midnight to see the one you wanted to see. Now, all you've got to do is go to a store and buy it and you can watch it whenever you want!
~By John Zorn ~
I'm just kind of taking a break now and enjoying the freedom of making my own choices. When you're on a television show for six years, they run your schedule.
~By Andrew Shue ~
Television has a real problem. They have no page two.
~By Art Buchwald ~
More than forty years of Communist rule in Central and Eastern Europe resulted in an unhappy and artificial division of Europe. It is this dark chapter of European history that we now have the opportunity to close.
~By Anders Fogh Rasmussen ~
In this country, you have movie actors and theatre actors and television actors.
~By Max von Sydow ~
By confronting us with irreducible mysteries that stretch our daily vision to include infinity, nature opens an inviting and guiding path toward a spiritual life.
~By Thomas More ~
I pretended I was living with a television family and there was no yelling at home and no one hit me.
~By Arthur Bremer ~
Instant telecommunication allows better and updated information, lessons learnt and problems encountered to be exchanged and debated, it alerts us more quickly to problems and brings to many households around the world visions and information which hopefully spur us to action.
~By Carol Bellamy ~
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 ~
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'm most proud of the blessings that God has bestowed upon me, in my life. He's given me the vision to truly see that you can fall down, but you can still get back up. Hopefully I'll learn from my mistakes and have the opportunity to strengthen and improve the next thing I do.
~By Martin Lawrence ~
There was a little afternoon show that was called Afternoon. Back in those days in television, most local stations had a midday show for housewives that had a series of things. It was like a variety show for midday.
~By Jim Henson ~
Whoever envisions not one but two series in New York?
~By Christopher Meloni ~
The individual whose vision encompasses the whole world often feels nowhere so hedged in and out of touch with his surroundings as in his native land.
~By Emma Goldman ~
I am very excited to be supporting one of the world's most visionary efforts to seek basic answers to some of the fundamental question about our universe and what other civilisations may exist elsewhere.
~By Paul Allen ~
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. ~
And I believe that good journalism, good television, can make our world a better place.
~By Christiane Amanpour ~
At the moment I'm enjoying a new challenge at the Royal Opera House, but I'm also keen to pursue my interest in television and particularly in science.
~By Deborah Bull ~
I was very sad to hear of the death of Ronnie Barker, who was such a warm, friendly and encouraging presence to have when I started in television. He was also a great comic actor to learn from.
~By John Cleese ~
Much of what passes for quality on British television is no more than a reflection of the narrow elite which controls it and has always thought that its tastes were synonymous with quality.
~By Rupert Murdoch ~
It's difficult for me to meet women because my crowd is much older. I know that for some of the young women I do meet, a relationship with me can be envisioned as a benefit to their career.
~By Michael Douglas ~
In 1960, when I came out of prison as an ex-convict, I had more freedom under parolee supervision than there's available... in America right now.
~By Merle Haggard ~
I grew up in the West, grew up on the land, was educated as a geologist. And I came here with a vision of what it is we ought to be doing.
~By Bruce Babbitt ~
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 ~
The vast majority of Americans agree with us. We're doing everything that we can. We're advertising, right now we're on television with an advertisement running in the Washington area. We've got newspaper ads.
~By Michael D. Barnes ~
It is about this very abstract sense of displacement that he feels the moment he turns off the television.
~By Atom Egoyan ~
I have no television - I hate it.
~By Patricia Highsmith ~
At thirteen I began modeling, doing my first television commercial in ninth grade for Pizza Hut.
~By Donna Rice ~
I might have had trouble saving France in 1946 - I didn't have television then.
~By Charles de Gaulle ~
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 ~
The news media's silence, particularly television news, is reprehensible. If we knew as much about Darfur as we do about Michael Jackson, we might be able to stop these things from continuing.
~By Nicholas D. Kristof ~
I suppose that the media and their portrayal of Islam and the almost tribal separations and divisions of the Muslims are the greatest issues confronting Muslims in the United Kingdom.
~By Cat Stevens ~
Enhance and intensify one's vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality.
~By Ovid ~
I moved to LA and decided to do films and television, mainly because the theater in New York is totally dead.
~By Shirley Knight ~
CBS's halftime show during the 2004 Super Bowl was a new low for television.
~By Mike Rogers ~
One of the gaps in our international development efforts is the provision of global public goods - that is, goods or conditions we need that no individual or country can secure on their own, such as halting global warming, financial stability and peace and security.
~By Anna Lindh ~
I voted for the Deficit Reduction Package with significant heartburn over the student aid provisions.
~By Bob Inglis ~
Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.
~By Arthur Schopenhauer ~
I was fired from my television job, simple as that. Well, downsized, really, a classic 1990s situation.
~By Lee Child ~
For my part, I make this pledge to all of you: The politics of division, of pitting east against west, urban versus rural, region against region, and people against people will have no place in my Administration.
~By Edward G. Rendell ~
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 ~
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 ~
It's funny, like 15 years ago when I was a kid doing all the John Hughes movies, I remember Bruce Willis was the only guy who was transitioning from television into film.
~By Anthony Michael Hall ~
No matter what vision one has of South Africa, the first thing that must be done is to destroy racism.
~By Joe Slovo ~
I've always tried to not let movie, television or theatre be all that my life is about. I've always tried to get involved in the community or my family now I have kids.
~By David Morse ~
Eighty percent of what everyone's talking about never happens. I don't mean in terms of product development that's happening right now, I'm talking about the far-flung visions of the future.
~By Jay Chiat ~
We all know that television is better for women as they get into their 40s. You could be more three-dimensional, not just the wife or the mother.
~By Dana Delany ~
We are not cured of alcoholism. What we have is a daily reprieve contingent on the maintenance of our spiritual condition. Every day is a day when we must carry the vision of God's will into all of our daily activities.
~By William Griffith Wilson ~
Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.
~By Marshall McLuhan ~
An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a point so remote that it appears like a vision.
~By Sholem Asch ~
I had daydreams and fantasies when I was growing up. I always wanted to live in a log cabin at the foot of a mountain. I would ride my horse to town and pick up provisions. Then return to the cabin, with a big open fire, a record player and peace.
~By Linda McCartney ~
Mistakes can be corrected by those who pay attention to facts but dogmatism will not be corrected by those who are wedded to a vision.
~By Thomas Sowell ~
It gets so boring at home. After all, how many reruns of Abbott and Costello movies can a guy watch on television?
~By Bud Abbott ~
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 ~
After the Great Depression and after public urging, a nationwide public competition was held to determine a design for a memorial that would honor President Thomas Jefferson's bold vision for westward expansion for America.
~By Russ Carnahan ~
Movies and television shows based on comic books constitute the worst single genre in the history of filmed entertainment (with the exception of porn).
~By John Podhoretz ~
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 ~
Wouldn't it be great if you could only get AIDS by giving money to television preachers?
~By Elayne Boosler ~
Violence and smut are of course everywhere on the airwaves. You cannot turn on your television without seeing them, although sometimes you have to hunt around.
~By Dave Barry ~
My feeling about him is that the America that we have today, the freedoms we enjoy and the privileges we have, are really the reflection of Abe Lincoln's convictions, his vision, and his toughness.
~By Gregory Peck ~
Vision looks upward and becomes faith.
~By Stephen Samuel Wise ~
Television really does offer still great parts for women, cable in particular.
~By Christine Lahti ~
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 ~
There is something supremely reassuring about television; the worst is always yet to come.
~By Jack Gould ~
He seems to want confrontation not only with the legislature and with the other elected officials, but he wants constant confrontation in order to be center stage on the television screen.
~By Bill Scott ~
I doubt if the public thought of me as Christ when they next saw me as Temple Houston on television.
~By Jeffrey Hunter ~
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 ~
I took acting classes in college, and once I graduated, I decided to give acting a shot when I couldn't really think of anything else to do. It took me a couple of years to get an agent, and my first big break was The Fanelli Boys, which was a sitcom on NBC. Then I did a few television movies.
~By Christopher Meloni ~
And the Institute sent me a little film footage of Kinsey himself preparing to do an interview for television to talk about his work, so that was quite valuable for me.
~By Liam Neeson ~
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