#tele

In the World War nothing was more dreadful to witness than a chain of men starting with a battalion commander and ending with an army commander sitting in telephone boxes, improvised or actual, talking, talking, talking, in place of leading, leading, leading. ↗

— J. F. C. Fuller

#army #battalion #boxes #chain #commander

Today's audience knows more about what's on television than what's in life. ↗

— Larry Gelbart

#audience #knows #life #more #television

I was sued by a woman who claimed that she became pregnant because she watched me on television and I bent her contraceptive coil. ↗

— Uri Geller

#because #bent #claimed #contraceptive #her

So I'd be quite happy to have a three-hour Lincoln-Douglas-style debate with Barack Obama. I'd let him use a teleprompter. I'll just rely on knowledge. We'll do fine. ↗

— Newt Gingrich

#barack obama #debate #fine #happy #him

It's about the power of design and the power of the human spirit. It's above paying anybody to do something stupid for money like reality television does - like ambushing people. ↗

— Genevieve Gorder

#above #anybody #design #does #human

For a long time, we've worked on detecting planets with whatever was at hand, making use of existing small telescopes or even amateur telescopes. It's time to move on to the next stage. ↗

— Andrew Gould

#detecting #even #existing #hand #long

There is something supremely reassuring about television; the worst is always yet to come. ↗

— Jack Gould

#always #come #reassuring #something #supremely

Commercials on television are similar to sex and taxes; the more talk there is about them, the less likely they are to be curbed. ↗

— Jack Gould

#commercials #less #likely #more #sex

I think what my hope is is that the only downside of having a steady job on television is, I think for all actors, there's a piece, there's some adrenaline, and part of the love of the job is not knowing what's coming next, and the variety. ↗

— Lauren Graham

#coming #downside #having #hope #i

Well, this week for example, I was just in Los Angeles making a documentary for German television on whales. They had tried to get me in England where they missed me. ↗

— Wavy Gravy

#documentary #england #example #for example #german