#isi

If you make compelling television, they will come. ↗

— Henry Winkler

#compelling #make #television #will #you

The serious reader in the age of technology is a rebel by definition: a protester without a placard, a Luddite without hammer or bludgeon. She reads on planes to picket the antiseptic nature of modern travel, on commuter trains to insist on individualism in the midst of the herd, in hotel rooms to boycott the circumstances that separate her from her usual sources of comfort and stimulation, during office breaks to escape from the banal conversation of office mates, and at home to revolt against the pervasive and mind-deadening irrelevance of television. ↗

— Eric Burns

#reading #television #travel #age

It's indeed surprising that replacing the elementary particle with a string leads to such a big change in things. I'm tempted to say that it has to do with the fuzziness it introduces. ↗

— Edward Witten

#big change #change #elementary #fuzziness #i

The nation voted us to power to see unity and communal harmony, not for any division or communality. ↗

— Khaleda Zia

#communal #division #harmony #nation #power

I have no problem with television as a genre. ↗

— James Purefoy

#i #no problem #problem #television

You make decisions and you're not going to please everybody all the time. ↗

— Mike Quade

#everybody #going #make #please #time

Sometimes, making the wrong choice is better than making no choice. You have the courage to go forward, that is rare. A person who stands at the fork, unable to pick, will never get anywhere. ↗

— Terry Goodkind

#decision #goodkind #courage

I then wrought at my trade as a tailor; carefully attended meetings for worship and discipline; and found an enlargement of gospel love in my mind, and therein a concern to visit Friends in some of the back settlements of Pennsylvania and Virginia. ↗

— John Woolman

#back #carefully #concern #discipline #enlargement

Advertising is the genie which is transforming America into a place of comfort, luxury and ease for millions. ↗

— William Allen White

#america #comfort #ease #genie #into

Europe has a press that stresses opinions; America a press, radio, and television that emphasize news. ↗

— James Reston

#emphasize #europe #news #opinions #press