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Marriage is one long conversation checkered by disputes. - Robert Louis Stevenson Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em. - William Shakespeare My words fly up, my thoughts remain below; Words without thoughts never to heaven go. - William Shakespeare Home is the place, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. - Robert Frost I think and think for months, for years. Ninety-nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right. - Albert Einstein If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. - Mother Teresa

All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching?

- Nicholas Johnson

He who prides himself on giving what he thinks the public wants is often creating a fictitious demand for low standards which he will then satisfy.

- Lord Reith

Of all the dramatic media, radio is the most visual.

- John Reeves

Television? The word is half Latin and half Greek. No good can come of it.

- C. P. Scott

Television's compelling power is its immediacy . .. this immediacy feeds the politics of emotions, gut reactions and impressions rather than the politics of logic, facts and reason; it emphasizes personality rather than issues.

- Hedrick Smith

Television is the literature of the illiterate, the culture of the low-brow, the wealth of the poor, the privilege of the underprivileged, the exclusive club of the excluded masses.

- Lee Loevinger

I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.

- Barbara Walters

When television is good, nothing is better. But when television is bad, nothing is worse. I invite you to sit down in front of your TV set and keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off. I can assure you that you will observe a vast wasteland.

- Newton Minow

Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.

- Ann Landers

Television is a gold goose that lays scrambled eggs; and it is futile and probably fatal to beat it for not laying caviar.

- Lee Loevinger

Television is chewing gum for the eyes.

- Frank Lloyd Wright

In the age of television, image becomes more important than substance.

- S. J. Hayakawa

Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want.

- Clive Barnes

Television has a real problem. They have no page two.

- Art Buchwald

Good heavens, television is something you appear on, you don't watch.

- Noel Coward

Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home.

- David Frost

Why should people pay good money to go out and see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?

- Sam Goldwyn

The television commercial is the most efficient power-packed capsule of education that appears anywhere on TV.

- C. L. Gray

Television is not the truth. Television is a god-damned amusement park. Television is a circus, a carnival, a travelling troupe of acrobats, storytellers dancers, singers, jugglers, sideshow freaks, lion tamers and football players. We're in the boredom-killing business.

- Paddy Chayefsky

Dictum on television scripts: We don't want it good - we want it Tuesday.

- Dennis Norden

I've had several years in Hollywood and I still think the movie heroes are in the audience.

- Wilson Mizner