Mary Tyler Moore Show Quotes

#1. 'The Mary Tyler Moore Show' was the best television, the best cast, the best-written television show ever.

Bob Newhart

#2. When I was growing up my favorite show was 'The Mary Tyler Moore Show', and I loved all the stuff that Norman Lear did.

Ryan Murphy

#3. I think music is about our internal life. It's part of the way people touch each other. That's very precious to me. And astronomy is, in a sense, the very opposite thing. Instead of looking inwards, you are looking out, to things beyond our grasp.

Brian May

#4. It's often said you don't choose who you fall in love with, which I believe to be true. I also believe you don't choose what you fall in love with.

Daniel Bryan

#5. What, eBay isn't good enough for us?

James Patterson

#6. Mostly we don't get destroyed," John said. "Mostly we destroy ourselves." Another

Joseph Fink

#7. And that's what the audience was feeling too, as they watched the show and as they watch it now. And overriding all of that is the way it was written. It was written honestly. There was never any manufactured laugh. There was never compromising of character.

Mary Tyler Moore

#8. Consistency, say some, is the sign of a small mind, but it's a real virtue with high-power technology. Having lots of the same devices out in the field lets us compile a record of experience.

James R. Chiles

#9. If you show up without makeup or looking sloppy, no matter how impressive your ideas are, no one is going to pay attention to you. People take you more seriously if you look polished.

Sylvia Ann Hewlett

#10. Reruns are wonderful because it usually indicates that they had something going for them to begin with and that's why you're still looking at them. And in both my shows, The Dick Van Dyke Show and the last one, they were so well written and so good they hold up.

Mary Tyler Moore

#11. I live in New York simply because I don't know any better. I moved there when the show went off the air a couple of years after that.

Mary Tyler Moore

#12. Betty White's Sue Ann Nivens was classic ... She had done so much with that man-crazy character! Betty made every moment count. She still does. I've declared her an American treasure, because she is just that.

Gavin MacLeod

#13. I just want to change the colour of some pixels. How hard can it be?

Russell J. Brown

#14. Mary [Tyler Moore] was absolutely brilliant ... She is a fabulous actress. She can do anything.

Gavin MacLeod

#15. Man is not an end but a beginning. We are at the beginning of the second week. We are children of the eighth day.

Thornton Wilder

#16. I think when life gets heavy, people look for an escape. "The Love Boat" is an escape. We have happy endings. You don't see many of those around. I think it gave people a vicarious adventure.

Gavin MacLeod

#17. Jews must learn to say without excuse, without equivocation: despite our history and our powerlessness in the past, despite allthe injustices that we have endured
today, now, the Palestinians are the victims of oppression, and their oppressors are the Israelis.

Irena Klepfisz

#18. It's a cakewalk, when you know how.

Gerry Lopez

#19. The pleasure which we most rarely experience gives us greatest delight.

Epictetus

#20. One must travel, to learn.

Mark Twain

#21. There have been people I've warmed to over the years but, as the situation I'm in is so fleeting and transient, I've always known it's going to be over kind of real quick.

Robert Plant