Quotes for All
If we were to do the Second Coming of Christ in color for a full hour, there would be a considerable number of stations which would decline to carry it on the grounds that a Western or a quiz show would be more profitable. Edward R. Murrow
What was wrong with train toilet doors that just locked, instead of this multiple choice system? If anything goes wrong, you’ll be sitting there while the whole toilet wall slowly slides away, unveiling you like a prize on a quiz show. For 500 points, a shitting woman! Frankie Boyle
This was years ago, I think during the early [Ronald] Reagan years. I came up with a plan that everybody just pay $8.95 in taxes. Cheating would be allowed. But the incentive to cheat wouldn’t be nearly as great if you only had to pay the $8.95. There were a few people who would have … Read more
My idea of relaxation is not lying down by a beach. I have to move around, do stuff. Though I’m a massive quiz show person. Daniel Radcliffe
I have deceived my friends, and I had millions of them. Charles Van Doren
I have learned a lot about good and evil – they are not always what they appear to be. Charles Van Doren
Early on, America took one path and went down the advertising road, and in the UK they founded the BBC and developed a different kind of public broadcasting. There was a point where TV was so beholden to commercial interest that people – civil society – actually rose up and said, “This is ridiculous: we … Read more