Programme Quotes

#1. Ruby Wax has basically ruined my career. You'll see when you watch the programme. I get more intimate with Ruby than I've ever been with another woman.

Carol Vorderman

#2. When you look at our programme for the next few weeks, you do not fancy a trip to the Oktoberfest.

Oliver Kahn

#3. The E.U.'s Eastern Partnership programme is designed to bind the so-called focus states tightly to itself, shutting down the possibility of co-operation with Russia.

Sergei Lavrov

#4. Programmes like the BES are what make the difference between a good university & one that is truly outstanding. I believe this programme will be invaluable for the future sustainability of Singapore and the region; perhaps even the world, if others follow our lead.

Geh Min

#5. With my recovery programme, I have to do a daily inventory of how my day has been. I am terribly dyslexic and have attention deficit disorder, so I have to carry a tape recorder everywhere I go.

Ozzy Osbourne

#6. The intelligence is clear: (Saddam) continues to believe his WMD programme is essential both for internal repression and for external aggression.

Tony Blair

#7. I have never watched property programmes. I watch Property Ladder, because I feel it's very rude for a director to work very hard on a programme and you can't be bothered to even watch it. So I do watch it, but I have to turn away when I'm on screen. It's quite unpleasant seeing myself up there.

Sarah Beeny

#8. Our regular fitness programme means that the race lasting longer than others should not be a problem, but something you have to prepare for in Singapore is ensuring you always keep well-hydrated, as the heat and humidity can easily dehydrate you.

Romain Grosjean

#9. Willpower is the fuel that runs human life; Like a driver in a computer application, Or Operating System in cyber programme, Willpower works life to performances; Life is deadwood; life, robust carrion, Without willpower in bright flame within.

Praveen Kumar

#10. The experimental poetry thing is not my thing. It's a programme of the avant-garde: basically a refusal of the kind of poetry I write.

Seamus Heaney

#11. The previous year it had taken England all their time to beat the full German team in an international and I had taken with me the programme from that match.

Dixie Dean

#12. The Apollo programme of the 1960s had some weight problems, too; in particular, the lunar lander needed some fairly drastic weight-reduction work.

Henry Spencer

#13. I've always hankered after going into space and walking on the moon and Mars. I did want to be an astronaut, and had there been a manned space flight programme in the U.K., I would have been knocking on the door.

David Mackay

#14. I would still ask the government not to drive the people of India to desperation, or else there is no other course left open to the people except to inaugurate the policy of non-cooperation, though not necessarily the programme of Mr. Gandhi.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

#15. The power of nonviolent resistance can only come from honest working of the constructive programme.

Mahatma Gandhi

#16. Climate change - for so long an abstract concern for an academic few - is no longer so abstract. Even the Bush administration's Climate Change Science Programme reports 'clear evidence of human influences on the climate system.'

Zac Goldsmith

#17. The Tories, every election, must have a bogy man. If you haven't got a programme, a bogy man will do.

Aneurin Bevan

#18. I'd like to see the government back a programme of research into the medical properties of cannabis and I do not object to its responsible use as a recreational relaxant.

Richard Branson

#19. Iran also has an extensive missile development programme. Iranian officials declare that the range of their modified Shahab-3 missiles is 2,000km, putting allied countries such as Turkey, Greece, Romania, and Bulgaria within reach.

Anders Fogh Rasmussen

#20. I started life washing cars in Canada before moving on to selling life insurance and vacuum cleaners. Later, I went through a programme by Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, which literally changed my life. It was the turning point.

Shiv Khera

#21. Many celebrations are set to take place in Swarnim Gujarat. However, if one asks me, "As the Chief Minister, which is your favourite programme?" Then friends, I would like to say that 'Vanche Gujarat' is the closest to my heart.

Narendra Modi

#22. If the people resolve and carry out this programme of boycott and Swadeshi, they would not have to wait for Swaraj even for a year.

Mahatma Gandhi

#23. The socially pernicious, racially wasteful, and soul-withering consequences of the working of mothers outside the home must cease. And this can only come to pass, either through the programme of institutional upbringing, or through the intimate renaissance of the home.

Ellen Key

#24. A good host is someone who really takes care of everyone, from the food to their daily programme. I can't.

Christian Louboutin

#25. Will they cower?' Kym asked.

'Tons of cowering! Plus your name in the summer programme. A custom-designed banner. A cabin at Camp Half-Blood. Two shrines. I'll even throw in a Kymopoleia action figure.'

'No!' Polybotes wailed. 'Not merchandising rights!

Rick Riordan

#26. Okay, well I think the programme is like being screamed at for an hour by a drunk with a strobe-light, but like I said

David Nicholls

#27. We're investing record sums on buses and trains. We have a huge programme to encourage people to walk and cycle, and everyone up to and including the PM has been looking closely at how we can promote electric vehicles, hybrids, and other technologies.

Geoff Hoon

#28. Claim your place in the sun and go forward into the light. The tools are there; the path is known; you simply have to turn your back on a culture that has gone sterile and dead, and get with the programme of a living world and a re-empowerment of the imagination.

Terence McKenna

#29. He'd imagined a dark, grim mining village, full of slack faced children, the product of a long term inbreeding programme.

Allan Watson

#30. Russia is opposed to the proliferation of mass destruction weapons, including nuclear weapons, and in this context we call upon our Iranian friends to abandon the uranium enrichment programme.

Vladimir Putin

#31. M.G.M. never really gave me a break. They loaned me out for leading roles but cast me in programme pictures.

Laraine Day

#32. When I was 17, I was at La Coupole brasserie, and Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir asked me to join them at their table. They were fascinated that I'd watched their programme on existentialism back home and wanted to understand nothingness and being.

Jerry Hall

#33. The NCI scientific programme leaders meet regularly to ensure that we are not ignoring highly original proposals and that we are not creating an unbalanced grant portfolio.

Harold E. Varmus

#34. In every area, we seem to have thrown everything away and embraced reality television. It's nauseating, programme after programme.

Ken Stott

#35. If the Irish programme did not insist on the Irish language I suppose I could call myself a nationalist. As it is, I am content torecognize myself an exile: and, prophetically, a repudiated one.

James Joyce

#36. To my mind, Swaraj based on nonviolence is the fulfillment of the constructive programme.

Mahatma Gandhi

#37. During my six years with them Dr Garnet Davey (subsequently Research Director) constantly supported me and, I have no doubt, fought many battles on my behalf to keep the initially controversial programme going.

James W. Black

#38. I've got two shirts still missing from the Bahamas. I'm sure they are part of a youth camping programme somewhere in Tanzania by now.

David Lange

#39. What you get out of an M.B.A. programme, no matter how much experience, is functional tools and understanding in disciplines: you'll understand economics, you'll understand marketing, finance, accounting. That, M.B.A. programmes do very well.

Henry Mintzberg

#40. Belief systems provide a programme which relieves the necessity of thought.

Bertrand Russell

#41. I never think of the time I have lost. I just carry out a programme because it's there. It's mapped out for me.

Nelson Mandela

#42. Execution of the constructive programme in its entirety means more than Swaraj. It means Ram Raj, Khudai Sultanat or the Divine Kingdom.

Mahatma Gandhi

#43. NCS - National Citizen Service is a fantastic programme. I want it to be available for every young person in the country.

David Cameron

#44. I've seen every single episode. I think it might be my favourite programme. I enjoy it enormously. I also think it's shit.

David Mitchell

#45. Kids used to come round to my house, and I'd force them to do a play in the bay windows of my house and get all the mums and dads to sit and watch. I'd write the programme, write the play and be the star.

James Norton

#46. 'Match of the Day' is a great programme to be on. It's a programme I used to be allowed to stay up and watch from the age of 10, so to think that one day I'd actually appear on it was great.

Mark Lawrenson

#47. I was invited for the first Woodstock. Actually, I started the programme.

Ravi Shankar

#48. We passionately set up a programme that we call the Indian gun programme. I challenged Colonel Bhatia, who heads our defence business, that let's build an Indian gun. There's a belief that Indian companies aren't capable of this, and we want to prove them wrong, as we did in components.

Baba Kalyani

#49. In America, there's a programme called 'The Swan.' They take 12 ugly people and call them 'ugly ducklings.' They spend six months and have everything done - plastic surgery, teeth, everything. And then they have this moment where their family is brought in, and they are revealed. It's scary.

Trinny Woodall

#50. The Olympic Games must not be an end in itself, they must be a means of creating a vast programme of physical education and sports competitions for all young people.

Avery Brundage

#51. Programme names have been changed, and we have Andrew Neil saying he won't be using long words.

Jonathan Dimbleby

#52. Marriage is like the witness protection programme: you get all new clothes, you live in the suburbs, and you're not allowed to see your friends anymore.

Jeremy Hardy

#53. I've booked a few sessions to make it look like a genuine getaway but now I look at my programme, I wonder how to fit in murdering my mother-in-law." Cressida Barker-Powell (Criss Cross)

Caron Allan

#54. And for those of you who watched the last programme, I hope all your doughnuts turn out like Fanny's.

David Coleman

#55. Our government declared that it is conducting some kind of great reforms. In reality, no real reforms were begun and no one at any point has declared a coherent programme.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#56. I love 'Call the Midwife'; it's an absolute gem of a programme. Filming the Christmas special and then the second series felt like going back to a boarding school that you really love and is full of friends.

Helen George

#57. Dickens never joined a political party nor put forward a political programme. He was a writer who rightly saw his power as coming through his fiction.

Claire Tomalin

#58. The more reality we face, the more we realise that unreality is the main programme of the day. The more real we become, the more abuse we take, so it does radicalise us in a way, like being put in a corner. But it would be better if there were more of us.

John Lennon

#59. I gave myself up to my thoughts - what else could I do! Of course, this was the very worst thing for my head, but I still do not see how I could have avoided it. This winter my programme will be to recover from myself, to rest myself away from my thoughts - for years I have not had this experience.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#60. The dream of socialists, the Maximum Programme, has always been to eliminate the private property, the family and the nation state. With the private property they have not succeeded, but they continue on the path of destruction of the family and the nation.

Vladimir Bukovsky

#61. Not since Jimmy Carr have I seen a cold computer programme on stage generate so much laughter.

Robin Ince

#62. Even if masses of people were to burn khadi publicly and say that it is an insane programme, I will declare that those people have gone mad.

Mahatma Gandhi

#63. We shouldn't blame the Panama programme for the World Cup bid failing

Graham Taylor

#64. The first time I was given money to shop for myself, I was 13 and staying with my godmother in New York. I went to Clinique and bought the three-step acne programme and felt so grown-up.

Trinny Woodall

#65. Our brains are like computers; it's our responsibility to programme them well, daily, and remove the viruses.

Sam Owen

#66. The investigation of this problem - How is spontaneous order possible? - is sometimes referred to as the 'Hayek programme'.

Jon Elster

#67. It would be hypocritical of me to use being female in some ways, and diss being female in other ways. It's part of the programme.

Danica Patrick

#68. Our space programme has overcome many hurdles. At the same time it is one of the most cost effective programmes. This should make us proud.

Narendra Modi

#69. This programme would only really make sense and work properly if it was also broadcast on France's international television channel TV5. So I ended up with a double production, on France 2 and TV5.

Bernard Pivot

#70. I'm part of a speech therapy programme called the McGuire Programme. It teaches you a new way to breathe, a new way to speak, a brand new way of tackling the mind-sets that come with having a speech impediment. Mainly, it teaches you how to slow things down, and that has really helped me.

Gareth Gates

#71. This document [the Reconstruction and Development Programme] was translated into a simpler manifesto called 'A Better Life for All', which in turn became the ANC's campaign slogan.

Nelson Mandela

#72. I was never jailed. The fact is that I was arrested, but I went into a diversion programme, and by that time I'd already begun working in what was called anger management. It was a painful and awful moment.

David Soul

#73. There is no "playing with truth" in the Charkha programme, for satyagraha is not predominantly civil disobedience but a quiet and irresistible pursuit of Truth.

Mahatma Gandhi

#74. Ours is a civil fight, and imprisonment as a civil prisoner has got to be earned by the strict observance of the programme.

Mahatma Gandhi

#75. (A unified) 'Europe' is the result of plans. It is, in fact, a classic utopian project, a monument to the vanity of intellectuals, a programme whose inevitable destiny is failure: only the scale of the final damage done is in doubt.

Margaret Thatcher

#76. With software there are only two possibilites: either the users control the programme or the programme controls the users. If the programme controls the users, and the developer controls the programme, then the programme is an instrument of unjust power.

Richard Stallman

#77. My favourite programme of all time is 'Weeds'; the first three or four series are perfection.

Miranda Raison

#78. Europe is ... a monument to the vanity of individuals, a programme whose inevitable destiny is failure.

Margaret Thatcher

#79. As a presenter, while I might suddenly want to start talking about something completely different, I have to stick to what we've agreed in order for all these other people to get their bits into the programme. So you have to be quite disciplined.

Jill Douglas

#80. I thought The Office was good, though I didn't think of it as a sitcom, just as a very good programme.

Dylan Moran

#81. Prosecution of the constructive programme means constructing the structure of Swaraj.

Mahatma Gandhi

#82. Each mini-programme - called a shader by OpenGL - is compiled, and the whole set are linked together to form the executable shader programme - called a program by OpenGL. Yes, that's the worst naming convention ever.

Anton Gerdelan

#83. Today, India's cooking gas subsidy is the world's largest Cash Transfer Programme.

Narendra Modi

#84. I think here in America the space programme was such an enticing thing to be going on, that the thought of a family being able to go into space and live up there was really kind of mind-bending at the time.

Angela Cartwright

#85. Faffing, of course, does not fit the programme. We are supposed to be busy, productive citizens.

Tom Hodgkinson

#86. I was for many years myself a journalist and it is not appropriate to say a programme should not be broadcast.

Christopher Monckton

#87. Israel's a small country but both the audience and programme-makers are very sophisticated.

Gideon Raff

#88. Since 2000, I've been based in Paris at the Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville, curating the programme there. Internationally, it's a very open situation that goes beyond national boundaries; directors and curators move from one country to another, which has opened up the museum landscape.

Hans Ulrich Obrist

#89. I try to enjoy a movie or a television programme just like anybody else. I'd love to be emerged into the story and watch it, but if you work a lot as an actor, in any aspect of the industry, things might arise in a programme that somebody might miss, whereas it might catch your attention.

Rory Cochrane

#90. I hope you have read the election programme of the Labour Party ... this is not socialism. It is Bolshevism run mad.

Edward Snowden

#91. Are they donating money to the programme?"
"No." I let that rattle around their heads for a minute. "Apparently I'm royalty." You could've heard a pin drop because I was pretty sure they had both stopped breathing. "Go figure, right?

Nichole Chase

#92. Relaxing is important; I would like to do more! Golf is a pretty good attempt, but good television, I find, is a great way to chill out and let it do the thinking for you. As long as the programme has got some substance and is well made, happy as a par round of 72!

Mark Hadlow

#93. We want a strong, vibrant economy for Britain so that we can set out a clear and affordable alternative programme for government.

Charles Kennedy

#94. Without a belief in my programme and without an acceptance of my condition, you will ruin me, ruin yourselves and ruin the cause.

Mahatma Gandhi

#95. The result was that, if it happened to clear off after a cloudy evening, I frequently arose from my bed at any hour of the night or morning and walked two miles to the observatory to make some observation included in the programme.

Simon Newcomb

#96. We hope that the plain people - the labourers and small farmers - will take this opportunity of coming together and working out the National programme.

Eamon De Valera

#97. But Iran has gone far beyond what is necessary for a purely civilian programme. It has concealed several nuclear facilities from the International Atomic Energy Agency, played hide-and-seek with the international community, and rejected all offers of co-operation from the U.S., the EU, and others.

Anders Fogh Rasmussen

#98. China's reform and opening-up programme and Europe's integration process have both contributed significantly to global peace, development, and prosperity. China firmly supports the integration of Europe and regards the E.U. as a strategic partner that deserves our confidence.

Li Keqiang

#99. I would like to initiate an initiative - the Broadway Annoying Audience Member Relocation Programme.

Daniel Radcliffe

#100. While you cannot deliver policies without principles, you cannot deliver principles without having power. You have quickly to move to a stage where, emphasising your principles, you build a programme, then call for popular support.

Gordon Brown