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- The prime purpose of eloquence is to keep other people from talking.
- Louis Vermeil
- Television news is like a lightning flash. It makes a loud noise, lights up everything around it, leaves everything else in darkness and then is suddenly gone.
- Hodding Carter
- Do you realize if it weren't for Edison we'd be watching TV by candlelight?
- Al Boliska
- CNN is one of the participants in the war. I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected president but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.
- Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - )
- My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
- Peter De Vries
- Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
- Fred Allen (1894 - 1956)
- Television is more interesting than people. If it were not, we would have people standing in the corners of our rooms.
- Alan Corenk
- The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
- Alfred Hitchcock (1899 - 1980), In Simon Rose, Classic Film Guide (1995)
- I only know two pieces; one is 'Clair de Lune' and the other one isn't.
- Victor Borge (1909 - 2000)
- Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.
- Philip Guedalla (1889 - 1944)
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