Famous Quotes & Sayings

Virginia Postrel

Americans hate their cable companies - for bumbling installers, on-again-off-again transmissions, peculiar channel selections, and indifferent customer service. The only thing cable subscribers hate more than the cable company is not being able to get what it delivers: multichannel selection and good reception.

Chris Carter

I've become very interested in the spectrum of political discourse as seen on the cable news channels that are conveniently right in a row on my cable provider's dial. I can flip from Fox to CNN to HLN to MSNBC, and I find myself at night flipping it back and forth through them, and it's something of an addiction.

The pilot is searched. The cabin crew is searched. The passengers are searched. Nine hundred thousand workers are not searched. And we are not dealing with that and TSA refuses to tell us why.

The rules have changed. True power is held by the person who possesses the largest bookshelf, not gun cabinet or wallet.

Natalie Portman

I was, like, a total cliched '80s child. I had Barbies, obviously, as well as My Little Ponies and Cabbage Patch Kids, but I used to destroy them. I used to draw all over their faces and cut off their hair.

Carrie Vaughn

I imagined calling in to my own radio show: Yeah hi, I'm a werewolf, and I'm stuck in a cabin in the woods with another werewolf and a werewolf hunter...

The arguments in favor of it have a clear political appeal. So cable is taking a la carte very seriously.

The antitrust division is looking at the possibility of anti-competitive practices in the international undersea cable industry.

The Anglo Leasing cases represent an excellent opportunity for the authorities to invoke the disciplinary provisions of the Code of Conduct signed by the new Cabinet weeks ago.

Richard LaGravenese

The territory has changed, and a lot of really good actors want to do cable series, but they don't necessarily want to do network TV and make the commitment of 22 episodes or whatever. They find that the liberties and the creative freedoms that you get in cable is more interesting to them than the censorship of a network show.

Dennis Rodman

We were getting cable TV on his watch.

Most of the big cable companies provide voice over Internet services that are equivalent to regular wire line phone service. The catch is they don't let customers be nomadic, you can't use a phone number from outside your regular service area.

Steve Ballmer

Microsoft's collaboration with Cable & Wireless and Compaq will mean great new integrated messaging and collaboration tools, ... By basing a range of new services on the Windows platform, Cable & Wireless, Compaq and Microsoft will enable more reliable and more efficient IT services for small and medium-sized businesses.

Winters are long and bleak. We lack sunshine and daylight. Cabin fever was a true disease then and it still gets you.

We continue to expand our audience, reaching them everywhere they consume media on cable and online.

We couldn't get a cab from the house we were renting. We had to hitch a ride. Then we started to panic. We started to notice people were gone and it seemed like it was going to be really bad.

Pete Domenici

I strongly recommend that we suggest to the administration that they quickly decide on some kind of an executive headquarters and chief recovery person so that all of this effort can be coordinated, ... We can have all the hearings and ideas we want, but we're going to be running in each other's way pretty soon, as are the Cabinet members.

I think it would be a great improvement for the community, ... The service is already there -- water, sewer, cable TV, natural gas . . . I had three calls about the property just today. That's how hot it is.

We are disappointed but not surprised that the committee voted to turn over the future of the Internet to the telephone and cable industry. Neither of those two sectors contributed to the creative development of the Internet, and neither is known for innovation. They are known for their desire to control what goes over their networks.

Nicola Sturgeon

I was very proud, on just my second day in office, to appoint a gender-balanced cabinet - one of only three in the developed world.

Jeffrey Bewkes

I think (if) the cable companies show up with continuing robustness (they) will get revalued.

We do want people to lobby their local cable operators. It's still a time-tested method of influencing them.

George Bodenheimer

We do not have the exclusive national cable rights here.

Ted Sarandos

We're closer to HBO than we are to the entire grid of cable on demand.

We don't think government should be dictating what kind of cable packages we should offer.

We don't have a cab company at all.

Those letters are going out to Cabinet members this week.

Unfortunately there aren't very many options in Boston, and since you can't take the T past a certain time, the only alternative to taking a cab is to walk home.

John Williamson

When you stack up what he's spending next to his cabinet colleagues, Mr. Volpe's spending is out of line and he should be reined in.

W. S. Gilbert

New York City is a bloodbath with cable competition.

One of the greatest complaints about the cable industry is that they use the fact that they control the pipe to control what gets on. There are a lot of people who feel that's unfair.

Basically, it's a cabin we have that we're trying to get some furniture into and get it ready to move into.

Sid Haig

I have actually directed over thirty plays and about one hundred commercials for cable TV, but have not yet had the opportunity to direct a feature film.