| "All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching?" Nicholas Johnson |
| "Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they're scraping the top of the barrel." Gore Vidal |
| "Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back." Plato |
| "The only factor becoming scarce in a world of abundance is human attention." Kevin Kelly |
| "The secret of joy in work is contained in one word: excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it." Pearl Buck |
| "Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down." Oprah Winfrey |
| "We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents." Eric Hoffer |
| "Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of." Geri Weitzman |
| "A big idea is like a hill-town. It is a stronghold, a focal point, something that people can orientate themselves by, while the cities on the plain fight it out below. We're surrounded by blurred messages. Anything strong and pure will stand out." Robert Jones |
| "It's not whether you win or lose, it's how many people remember you when you die." Jonathan Ross, Project Fame contestant. |
| "With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy." Arthur Schopenhauer |
| "Men don't care what's on TV. They only care what else is on TV." Jerry Seinfeld |
| "Keep away from people who belittle your ambitions. Small-minded people always do that, but the ones who are really great make you feel that you too can be great." Maria Muashindange |
| "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 |
| "Seeing a murder on television... can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some." Alfred Hitchcock |
| "It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters in the end." Ursula Le Guin |
| "Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom." General George Patton |
| "When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad." E.B. White |
| "Each and every one of us is a show waiting to happen." Jerry Springer |
| "In day-to-day commerce, television is not so much interested in the business of communications as in the business of delivering audiences to advertisers. People are the merchandise, not the shows. The shows are merely the bait." Les Brown, Television: The Business Behind the Box, 1971. |
| "Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire." Mileah Davis |
| "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." Andy Warhol |
| "The secret of true genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm." Aldous Huxley |
| "Acting is pretending that you're not pretending when you're actually pretending." Ted Danson |
| "Good wine needs no bush, and perhaps products that people really want need no hard-sell or soft-sell TV push. Why not? Look at pot." Ogden Nash |
| "Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble." Benjamin Franklin |
| "The airwaves should belong to the people. If a TV signal comes trespassing onto my property, I should be free to do any damn thing I want with it, and it's none of the government's business." Anonymous, quoted by Charles Platt in 'Satellite Pirate', Wired magazine August 1994 |
| "Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television." Rita Mae Brown |
