Ejnar Christiansen Quotes

#1. When it went on the air, the sales department hated it. It was the highest advertising pullout show in the history of NBC. At the early focus groups, people were saying, 'Who are these people? Why should we watch them?

Dick Wolf

#2. It was only when Shona, in sheer fury, turned the carnivorous sheep among them that they moved. They ran, some of them with charming little white sheep attached to their legs or backsides and the rest shouting about monsters.

Diana Wynne Jones

#3. Hate destroys EVERYTHING except itself. Everything. Including you.

Tanya Masse

#4. Nothing is as evanescent in history as the pansophic theories that flourish among the illuminati of all times under the bright sunlight of the latest scientific discoveries; and nothing can be more easily dismissed by later periods as mere speculation.

H. Richard Niebuhr

#5. Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line.

Warren Bennis

#6. I feel that our stories are cross culturally irrelevant, and I'm a member if a larger community of people who have no boundaries in terms of color or in terms of how I look at other people and their stories.

Giancarlo Esposito

#7. Baseball gives you every chance to be great. Then it puts every pressure on you to prove you haven't got what it takes.

Joe Garagiola

#8. You must not demand the failure of your peers, because the more good things that are around in film, in television, in theater - why the better it is for all of us.

Jerome Lawrence

#9. In 1986, The Economist assembled a list of English terms that had become more or less universal. They were: airport, passport, hotel, telephone, bar, soda, cigarette, sport, golf, tennis, stop, O.K., weekend, jeans, know-how, sex appeal, and no problem.

Bill Bryson

#10. In the Rodgers and Hammerstein generation, popular hits came out of shows and movies.

Stephen Sondheim