80s Tv Quotes & Sayings

We have a tendency to assume people are a unity, and thus good people all good, etc. But the fact that Hitler was good to dogs and children isn't a paradox. — Richard Posner

As long as I live I shall always be My Self - and no other, Just me. — Walter De La Mare

Prayer is first and foremost an act of love — Brennan Manning

Getting socially outcast can be the best and most informative thing that can ever happen to you because you have to learn who you are separate from the pack. — Ezra Miller

When I was on TV in the '80s, I wasn't thinking, 'There's a 10-year-old kid watching this and in 15 years, he's gonna be doing stuff that was influenced by me.' I was trying to get my five minutes together. So now that those people are comedians and they're influenced by me - it's bizarre. — Steven Wright

It's funny because all through the '80s I didn't do TV and movies very much. I prided myself that I was making a living in the theater. — Charles Kimbrough

Sayeed was a quiet man - not awkward, as Arbeely could be, but possessed of a calm and steady nature that complemented his wife's heartfelt vivacity. — Helene Wecker

Among all his creatures in heaven or earth, God hath not made any like unto the sun in the firmament, the beams whereof are beautiful and pleasant, and do give comfort in all places to all things. — John Jewel

Libby was dead. Princess X disappeared.
May lost her best friend again, and again, and again. — Cherie Priest

The best parts about writing a show are [its] first, second and 10th anniversaries. Everything else is relative levels of hell. — Alan Menken

In the '80s, I was the only one who didn't watch the shows about teenagers. I had to go over to friends' houses to see them. I still don't have a TV! — Clemence Poesy

When I was growing up in L.A. in the late '70s and early '80s, Michael Jackson's was the first face on TV that looked like mine. — Shawn Amos

My dad was an actor, and my older sister is an actress, and so I very much remember thinking, "Well, of course I'll do that as well." But I never imagined myself as an actor who would be in films. I always only thought of myself being in a play or a musical and maybe the odd episode of [U.K. '80s TV drama] Casualty. My backup plan was to do something with children, to start a nursery school or work with underprivileged kids. And I still dream of maybe doing that in some way. I've always got children in my house, always. — Kate Winslet

My dream is that as the years go by and the world knows more and more of America, itwill turn to America for those moral inspirations that lie at the basis of all freedomthat America will come into the full light of the day when all shall know that she puts human rights above all other rights, and that her flag is the flag not only of America but of humanity. — Woodrow Wilson

'The Simpsons' from the very beginning was based on our memories of brash '60s sitcoms - you had a main title theme that was bombastic and grabbed your attention - and when you look at TV shows of the 1970s and '80s, things got very mild and toned down and ... obsequious. — Matt Groening

Sex on the brain is the wrong place to have it. — Malcolm Muggeridge

Back in the '80s, a lot of the images I used were from TV or from films on TV. — Raymond Pettibon

Everything about the behaviour of American society reveals that it's half Judaized, and the other half negrified. — Adolf Hitler

In the late-'80s, there was a big push to make American football big in Scotland. The Super Bowl was on TV, but it didn't really catch on. When I was a kid, though, I became a big Miami Dolphins fan. I don't really know why - I just liked the logo, I guess. I didn't really know what was going on. — Kevin McKidd

Kelsey flopped next to him, propping her elbow on the back of the couch so she was facing him. "Do you have something against happiness?"
"Yes. Don't tell anyone, but I moonlight as the Grinch. — Cindi Madsen

We're seeing TV series that are as good as movies were in the '70s and '80s - shows like 'The Wire,' 'The Sopranos' and 'Breaking Bad.' — Tahar Rahim

In the early '80s, my sound - especially that mysterious kind of synthesized sound that was used so much - every relatively cheap TV show eventually had it because it's not expensive. It's just one guy doing the whole soundtrack. So it was overdone. — Giorgio Moroder

What the day brings is one thing, what we ourselves contribute to the day is quite another — Jose Saramago

Typically I go in the studio and whatever I'm contemplating that day will wind up being a song. I don't come in with lyrics ... I just go in and let it happen. — Alanis Morissette