20th-century Television Personality Quotes

If it's that difficult for a rich man to get into heaven think how terrible it must be for a poor man to get in. He doesn't even have a bribe for the gatekeeper.

My father died when I was nine and a half. We were on relief for two years. They call it welfare now, but it was relief then... I never forgot the generosity of New York.

We have also watched the Federal Government grow in power and scope. Our nation was designed to foster 50 hotbeds of innovation and experimentation. Sadly, the Federal Government attempts to micromanage everything from Washington D. C. For example, the Federal Departments of Agriculture and Transportation are currently attempting to require anyone operating farm equipment on their own property to have a Commercial Driver's License (CDL). This places an undue burden on family farms. For the first 220 years of the Federal Government's existence, our farming communities have managed to operate farm equipment without the government's interference. Laws that hurt Hoosier jobs must be nullified.

Stone-ground grits are wonderful, but because they take so long to cook, I usually go with quick cooking grits - which I also love. But I never make the instant kind - some things a Southerner just won't do!

Remember, the pain of rejection is nothing compared to the pain of regret.

One does not deceive oneself about the consequences of one's acts; one deceives oneself about the ease with which one can live with those consequences.

When you get to fifty-two food becomes more important than sex.

Apple is becoming the JC Penney of tech. I think that there is a sense that the company is in a tailspin, and it doesn't seem to matter what they do right now. … Whatever product that is coming out in September is a clear loser. We haven't seen it yet, but it is a loser.

Defeating the infidels requires a much greater effort. It requires the mobilization of the nation.

Muhammad Munajid

Remember, only what you give can God multiply back. If you give nothing, and even if God were to multiply it, it would still be nothing!

In spite of some bad experiences, I'm a firm believer in the trial and error method of learning.

For quite a while I did feel like my brain wasn't being used at all. Obviously, when you're just modelling, you do feel a bit almost brain-dead, where you need something to stimulate you mentally and you're not getting it.

Dogs do know how comfortable you are with yourself, how happy you are, how fearful you are, and what is missing inside of you.

I take my dog Tinkerbell seriously. I take my job seriously. But I don't take myself all that seriously.

England is the only civilised country in the world where it is etiquette to fall on the food like a wolf the moment it is served. Elsewhere it is comme il faut to wait until everybody has helped himself to everything and until everything on everybody's plate is stone cold.

Virginia Graham

I've actually trademarked the term 'Momager,' which is what I am.

I don't really like surprises. Not big ones anyway. Just having a pack of Revels holds enough of a surprise for me.

Karl Pilkington

Political pornography is not unlike the sexual kind: difficult to define, but you know it when you see it.

Nerd. Geek. Used to be if you self-identified that way, you'd get thrown into a locker and never have sex. Or worse, whatever that is. But to me and more and more people I know, being a nerd or a geek means having passion, power, intelligence. Being a nerd just means there is something in the world that you care deeply about—be it twelve-sided dice, a favorite sports team, your new laptop or Night Rider.

Journalists told me that a talk show wouldn't work. Some told me I was going to get canceled before my first season was up. Before I did one show, they were, like 'Why do you want to do this? Do you know that 90 percent of talk shows don't get a second season? You're a model. People just see you as a model.'

I'm curious about everything - even things that don't interest me.

Love...who needed love? As long as she had her books and her friends and an occasional hookup, she was perfectly content.

I find very often people like to confront rumors. It depends on how much they trust you. And you have to have a line between what is tasteful and what isn't.

Barbara Walters

Scientific whaling, and other lies will be exposed and become atrocities of the past.

Whenever I meet people for the first time, I assume that they have a great story to tell and that it's my job to find it.

Sarah, Duchess of York