"Television is the medium of the 20th century."

-- Hugh Downs

#Television Quotes #Century Quotes #Mediums Quotes

“You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.”
“When you're dealing with boycotts, you don't need everyone. You just need enough to be effective.”
“My life with Howard Hughes was and shall remain a matter on which I will have no comment.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“...What is the use of beauty? i have lived my life surrounded by painters, and still I do not know the answer. But i suspect, some days, that beauty helps protect the spirit of mankind, swaddle it and succor it, so that we might survive. Beauty is no end in itself, but if it makes or lives less miserable so that we might be more kind-well, then, lets have beauty, painted on our porcelain, hanging on our walls, ringing through our stories.”
“There is a 'sanctity' involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.”
“How to explain? How to describe? Even the omniscient viewpoint quails.”
“As soon as politicians start climbing up the ladder, they suddenly become kings. I don't know how it works, but what I do know is that republics came to the world to make sure that no one is more than anyone else. The pomp of office is like something left over from a feudal past: "You need a palace, red carpet, a lot of people behind you saying, 'Yes, sir.' I think all of that is awful."”
“As a filmmaker, you want your work seen by the widest audience possible.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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