“Television – a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.”
- Ernie Kovacs
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“In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.”
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
- Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931), (attributed)
“It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.”
- Pierre Beaumarchais (1732 - 1799)
“The one function TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were.”
- David Brinkley (1920 - 2003)
“Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.”
- J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904 - 1967), (speaking of Albert Einstein)
“The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.”
- Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967), (attributed)
“To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.”
- Gustave Flaubert (1821 - 1880)
“Those whom the Gods would destroy, they first call promising.”
- Cyril Connolly (1903 - 1974) (Enemies of Promise (1938))
“The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best.”
- Will Rogers (1879 - 1935), (Illiterate Digest (1924), "Breaking into the Writing Game")
Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.
- G. K. Chesterton (1874 – 1936)
“'Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.”
- Abraham Lincoln (attributed)
“Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.”
- H. L. Mencken
“The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.”
- Samuel Butler
English composer, novelist, & satiric author (1835 - 1902)
- Robert Sobel
“Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.”
- Robert Frost (The Black Cottage)