Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wallace Stevens

So, too, if, to our surprise, we should meet one of these morons whose remarks are so conspicuous a part of the folklore of the world of the radio--remarks made without using either the tongue or the brain, spouted much like the spoutings of small whales--we should recognize him as below the level of nature but not as below the level of the imagination.

Warren Farrell

The problem is that Americans care more about saving whales than saving males.

Wavy Gravy

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.

George Gaylord Simpson

I don't know where to put whales. I'm sticking them here, but I don't have any reason for it.

Lupe Fiasco

The rewards we get by being those weird guys going against the grain to me are way more massive than selling a million billion records. I like climbing mountains or going on undersea dives for whales and stuff like that.

P. T. Barnum

Never attempt to catch a whale with a minnow.

Oliver Goldsmith

If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.

Paul Watson

All of the great whales are endangered.

Paul Watson

I have been honored to serve the whales, dolphins, seals - and all the other creatures on this Earth. Their beauty, intelligence, strength, and spirit have inspired me. These beings have spoken to me, touched me, and I have been rewarded by friendship with many members of different species. If the whales survive and flourish, if the seals continue to live and give birth, and if I can contribute to ensuring their future prosperity, I will be forever happy.

Rick Baker

I think you've been on television plenty, Ed,

Annabella Sciorra

I don't have a television, so I don't know what they do,

William S. Paley

Television, I would say, isn't an advertising medium. It's a selling medium.

William Gibson

I can see television much more easily than I can see features, because the economy and politics of making big, big features seems to me to be narrowing even from what it was.

Will Estes

I don't really get a chance to watch much television.

Rebecca Eaton

I love mysteries on television - the more psychologically complex, the better.

Robert Carlyle

I've really enjoyed my work in television, but the problem for me is the turnover of directors every week.

Tucker Carlson

The best thing about television news is, it's immediate. Everything at a news network happens quickly.

Robin Day

Television thrives on unreason, and unreason thrives on television. It strikes at the emotions rather than the intellect.

Robert Conquest

You made a point about proof. In this sort of history we do nt have proof... Yet... the incontrovertibility of the evidence can be plain even when it is not documentary or complete.

Robin Tunney

After I read all the medical journals and watched all the documentaries, I still didn't understand the physical sensation of ticking and where it comes from and what it feels like

Werner Herzog

For me, the distinction between documentaries and feature films is not so clear - my "documentaries" were largely scripted, rehearsed, and repeated, and have a lot of fantasy and concoction in them.

Robert Zemeckis

I'm addicted to documentaries. That's all I watch on television.

Eric Rohmer

A good film is also a documentary

Terry Zwigoff

Saying that all documentaries are the same is like saying all foreign films are the same.

Lauren Greenfield

I've been a documentary photographer for much longer than I have been a filmmaker.

Jonathan Demme

I love doing fiction. I love doing performance films and I love doing documentaries that don't have music. I love to shoot and I love to shoot things I'm enthusiastic about.

Ed Cunningham

You can always go back and reconstruct stuff in a documentary, but it's so much cooler when you're there as it happens.