Got Rid Of My Tv Quotes & Sayings

A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times. — Randall Jarrell

Guilt is a relative term, as are fairness, justice, and punishment. — Brian Haig

The number one advice I give to my students is to be a culture creator, not a culture consumer," he continued. "You have to have time to create, and to create, you have to get rid of those things that steal your time. TV is the great time-stealer in American life. — Rod Dreher

They have an amazing proliferation of TV channels now: The all-cartoon channel, the 24-hour-science fiction channel. Of course, to make room for these they got rid of the Literacy Channel and the What's Left of Civilization Channel. — Dennis Miller

I am an actress first, a singer second. — Grace Jones

I am at a loss to figure out how to rid my e-mail of those bottom-feeders of the electronic world, the generators of spam ... If I were Emperor of the World, I would lock all the spammers in a room and force them to watch nothing but TV commercials for the rest of their miserable lives, and I would condemn the people who respond to spammers to do nothing but clean the toilets in this room. — Richard Turner

Adam's blue eyes flicked briefly over to mine as he directed me to turn onto a major street. Once he was satisfied that I could, in fact, turn without causing my car - or any car in the near vicinity - to explode, he allowed himself to actually converse. "You don't trust people?" "Not to hit my car, or not to screw up my life?" "Either." That seemed like more of an answer than a question, so I didn't reply. — Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Books can be passed around. They can be shared. A lot of people like seeing them in their houses. They are memories. People who don't understand books don't understand this. They learn from TV shows about organizing that you should get rid of the books that you aren't reading, but everyone who loves books believes the opposite. People who love books keep them around, like photos, to remind them of a great experience and so they can revisit and say, 'Wow, this is a really great book. — Daniel Goldin

Intelligence comes from meditation, intelligence comes from rebellion, intelligence does not come from memory — Osho

Asking a working writer what he feels about critics is like asking a lamppost what it feels about dogs. — John Osborne

TV programmes are so bad these days, even idiots are getting rid of their idiot boxes. — Steve Fowler

I remember when I was in my late teens just getting rid of lots of records, realizing I only ever listened to them when I was reading, or watching TV, or doing something else. — Jonny Greenwood

[ ... ] Depressive Episodes.
[I]Episodes.[/i] Like depression is a sitcom with a fun punch line each time. Or a TV box set loaded with cliffhangers. The only cliffhanger in my life is "Will I ever get rid of this s***?" And believe me, it gets pretty monotonous. — Sophie Kinsella

Gareth Bale has been levitated to the status of one of the best players in the world — Perry Groves

What did it mean? A stick sharpened at both ends. What was there in that? — William Golding

Her full name is Eva Morelli Stein Hathaway. She retains her surnames not because they define her, but because she defines them; that is, except for the first--Morelli. Ironically it is the one she's least familiar with... — Maryann D'Agincourt

I live by Edith Wharton's rule to get rid of anything neither useful nor beautiful. So I put the TV out on the street. — Melissa Bank