"If you want to use television to teach somebody, you must first teach them how to use television."

-- Umberto Eco

#Television Quotes #Want Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“Nana used to say whenever you start feeling like the world is taking a bite out of you, bite back by counting your blessings.”
“But not all of them are decorated to the same level of taste.”
“Plainly, she is quite besotted by him,... a girl, a young girl, and she is falling in love for the first time in her life. ...little Kitty Howard at a loss, stumbling in her speech, blushing like a rose, thinking of someone else and not herself is to see a girl become a woman.”
“My songwriting is so influenced by orchestrated music, dramatic, super glam rock-y stuff. Two of my biggest influences in songwriting were Elton John and Freddie Mercury.”
“A man must first despise himself, and then others will despise him.”
“The magic of property turns sand to gold.”

Source : Arthur Young (1792). “Travels During the Years 1787, 1788, and 1789: Undertaken More Particularly with a View of Ascertaining the Cultivation, Wealth, Resources, and National Prosperity of the Kingdom of France”, p.74
“Every now and again I need to get away from everything. I'm quite a hidey-hole kind of a guy.”
“The fund of sensible discourse is limited; that of jest and badinerie is infinite.”

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