Nielsen Ratings Quotes

#1. At root, vulgar just means popular on a mass scale. It is the semantic opposite of pretentious or snobby. It is humility with a comb-over. It is Nielsen ratings and Barnum's axiom and the real bottom line. It is big, big business.

David Foster Wallace

#2. I feel like a lot of times when you get signed to an agent they just send you everywhere, so I still audition for a lot for voiceover stuff. I actually don't book a lot of it, and I love doing it so I get disappointed because I want to do more voice stuff.

Jonathan Lipnicki

#3. In a contagious world,we learn to keep our distance. If we get too close to those who are suffering, we might get infected by their pain. It may not be convenient or comfortable. But only when you get close enough to catch their hurt will they be close enough to catch your love.

John Ortberg

#4. Yes, I am influenced by everbody. But every time I put my hands in my pockets I find someone else's fingers there.

Willem De Kooning

#5. To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines.

Steve Jobs

#6. Chemistry's a funny thing. It can be instantaneous, but it helps when you know someone.

David Walton

#7. Detachment is what interests me, seeing how people couldn't have been any other way, how they were the product of forces that they had no control over.

Edward St. Aubyn

#8. Becoming famous and selling a lot of records doesn't change a thing.

Macy Gray

#9. Netflix did it right and focused on all the things that have replaced the dumb, raw numbers of the Nielsen world - they embraced targeted marketing and 'brand' as a virtue higher than ratings.

Kevin Spacey

#10. There was once a king's son. Nobody had so many or such beautiful books as he had. He could read about everything which had ever happened in the world, and see it all represented in the most beautiful pictures.

Hans Christian Andersen

#11. That is the power of the Eucharist. At the communion table you have rich and poor together in the early church and they were being challenged.

Shane Claiborne

#12. I like the trivial, vulgar and exalted.

J.V. Cunningham

#13. Being listened to and heard is one of the greatest desires of the human heart. And those who learn to listen are the most loved and respected.

Richard Carlson

#14. My mother was gone. The whole world should be black and cold. Nothing should look beautiful.

Rick Riordan