Hoberman Lesser Quotes

#1. Television has its own award. It's called the Emmy. It's a good award. I like it. I have one. But you don't see movies like 'The King's Speech' win Oscars and then go to TV and qualify for Emmys. In documentaries, some networks have been able to game the system.

Michael Moore

#2. They seal the subway change-booth guy up inside this thing with bullet-proof glass, closed in on all sides, it's like some kind of Houdini torture tank of doom. How do you breathe in there? It looks like if you put your hand over the change slot, you could suffocate him in thirty seconds.

Jerry Seinfeld

#3. They're called in the Scripture the Beatitudes. You know why they're called the Beatitudes without being prestigious? Because they should be the attitudes of every believer. That's the normal Christian life, not the abnormal Christian life. The normal Christian life is holiness.

Leonard Ravenhill

#4. In these days of widespread illiteracy, functional illiteracy ... anything that keeps people stupid is a felony.

Harlan Ellison

#5. Hansel is certainly about comfort, while still sort of having a peacock principle of wanting to attract attention.

Owen Wilson

#6. If a man or a woman starts "expecting" sex, then it is no longer special, and a lover will likely start to feel used.

Cathy Burnham Martin

#7. I am concerned because even in the past two years that were the jubilee years, I have seen evident signs which show that the people are still in great difficulties, and there are things that still need to be remedied and looked after in many areas.

Bhumibol Adulyadej