Quotes About Cable

#1. But I really am very active in the choice of the line producer with the producer of record and the distributing company, because I've had some terrible, terrible experiences with some line producers, particularly in cable.

John Frankenheimer

#2. Ideally, in the future, you'll just pay your cable company for the stream, which you'll be able to watch and manipulate through whatever means on whatever devices you like.

Alex Pareene

#3. What about a hoverboard?"
"It's waiting on the roof, of course." Dr. Cable snorted. "What is it about you miscreants and those things?

Scott Westerfeld

#4. I don't have ADD, but I only like to pay attention to the things I like to pay attention to, and things like getting a TV and getting the cable working are beyond me, and so I let such things lapse, sometimes for years. This applies to keeping my apartment clean.

Jonathan Ames

#5. Look at the Chandra Levy case. It's become a Star Chamber. The major networks, the cable networks, they're being prosecutors. They're judges and jurors and executioners. Well, c'mon, that's ridiculous. But they're doing it.

Ray Bradbury

#6. I went out in my yard and saw a snake, so I got really scared, and I came back inside to get a shovel, and beat the hell out of that snake. Then I didn't have cable for a week.

Charlie Viracola

#7. There'll never be any revolution. Humanity has bartered it for Coca-Cola and cable television.

Liza Marklund

#8. by the FCC's own reckoning, the cable companies will soon enjoy an uncontested monopoly over broadband Internet in much of the United States beyond the East Coast, and they are also seeking control of more Hollywood studios and television networks.

Tim Wu

#9. Obviously, it's not cable, it's streaming, but it's the same format. It's the same 10 episodes. It feels like cable as opposed to network.

Christian Cooke

#10. A cobweb is as good as the mightiest cable when there is strain upon it.

Henry Ward Beecher

#11. Pixar has announced Larry the Cable Guy will be starring in Cars 3 thru 6. Howie Mandel will be playing his sidekick, Mopey the Moped.

Andy Kindler

#12. Cable's on fire. Traditional broadcast TV's hearing a death knell. I sample as much television as possible. I like 'Homeland,' 'Game of Thrones,' 'Veep.' Now reinvention's important.

Darren Star

#13. The longer you wait, the more the jump rope becomes a big steel cable.

Susan Messing

#14. I like the fact that a modern television and modern drama on cable has characters that are really intricate and deep and have multiple layers.

Matthew Lillard

#15. The stories about broadcast dying or it being overtaken by cable have stopped. Same goes for the stories about the Internet hurting our business.

Leslie Moonves

#16. I know I'm on a small cable reality show. I'm realistic where I stand in the scheme of things.

Jai Rodriguez

#17. Alienation and loneliness became a cable that stretched hundreds of miles long, pulled to the breaking point by a gigantic winch. And through that taut line, day and night, he received indecipherable messages.

Haruki Murakami

#18. I wanted to work on a cable show and with a writer/director because that's a much more fulfilling and freeing experience, as an actor.

Tom Ellis

#19. 'Baskets' isn't a CBS show. Nothing against that, but this is an off-kilter show on cable that the channel lets you do interesting things. Look, if it works, it works. And if it doesn't, it's just a miniseries.

Zach Galifianakis

#20. Cable television and the Internet have created an unending demand for information, and there simply isn't enough truth to go around.

Timothy Noah

#21. What do we think of sex on television? Frankly, I think it's a pain. For one thing, the cable box gets wedged into your back and gets real uncomfortable ...

Peter David

#22. Naturally, people - especially in America - live in the moment and, given the "crisis" orientation of cable news, think that [the 2000s are] the worst period the country has ever gone through. Not really.

Ivan Eland

#23. People don't have to go to cable news or network news. Live sports is the one of many things that's kind of community television. There are a lot of people who still tune in to "Sunday Night Football" or "Thursday Night Football" the way they did before.

Henry Blodget

#24. Terribly sad news about Stuart Cable, such a lovely, warm, funny, talented man.

Rob Brydon

#25. Obviously with the onset of cable and satellite, there are more opportunities for programming and original programming, so it creates more opportunities for actors and producers and directors and everything.

Anthony Michael Hall

#26. Nature was tough, it could be dangerous, but unlike Dr. Cable or shay, or peris-unlike people in general-it made sense. The problems it threw at you could be solved rationally.

Scott Westerfeld

#27. Cable companies aren't bad because they're parts of unwieldy media conglomerates. They're bad because they're monopolies (even where they are no longer legally exclusive) and because the government policies that made them monopolies rewarded lobbying over customer service.

Virginia Postrel

#28. People in the movie division hate the people in the cable group ... Ultimately, you work for NBCUniversal, not Bravo or Syfy.

Steve Burke

#29. In 1986, our commencement speaker was George Schultz, secretary of state, fourth in line to the president. You get me-basic cable's second most popular fake newsman. At this rate, the class of 2021 will be addressed by a zoo parrot in a mortar-board that has been trained to say congratulations.

Stephen Colbert

#30. ...if you can achieve total intimacy with a piece of cable that costs fifty-nine kopeks, what good is it? How can you say you have something special with a person, when you can get the same thing with anyone in Russia in fifteen minutes?

Raphael Carter

#31. I grew up on a farm, and we didn't have cable and only limited radio stations, so I wasn't inundated with culture the way people in other parts of the country were. But I was really interested in it.

Chuck Klosterman

#32. The way the recession has affected Hollywood, a lot of actors that had robust opportunities before in film no longer have such plum options, so cable has done a good job of becoming a happy medium for artists deemed film actors.

Omari Hardwick

#33. Listen, a cable series is a beautiful thing because there's such amazing writing happening on television, and it's a schedule that allows you to do a play or two. There's a reason everybody wants that job!

Lily Rabe

#34. The justices have constitutionally protected obscenity in libraries, filth over cable television, and now unlimited internet pornography.

Phyllis Schlafly

#35. Everyone loves the idea of internet fast enough that HD movies download in seconds, but if only the telecoms or their partners get to use the high speeds, it's not the internet: It's glorified cable.

Damian Kulash

#36. When you go to cable, there are no stations and no affiliates and they allow you to do your show.

George Lopez

#37. I think for business reasons, fiscal reasons, I think these cable networks can take greater risks and I think with a risk comes better programming. And I think USA has got an amazing identity to it now that is clearly defined with its 'Characters welcome' tag.

Tim DeKay

#38. Revolt is my new - cable music network. It's distributed through Time Warner and Comcast. And to put it simply, it is the ESPN of music.

Sean Combs

#39. The first transatlantic cable was not laid until 1956, and it could transmit only 36 calls at any one time. As late as 1966, only 138 simultaneous calls could take place between Europe and all of North America,

Michael Strong

#40. My parents were great parents, but for some bizarre reason they allowed me to watch whatever I wanted on TV, we had cable. And I constantly watched horror movies.

Christopher Bollen

#41. In 1984 nobody knew what cable was going to be. It was there, but you didn't know where it was going.

Curtis Armstrong

#42. My description of fun would be to sit on someone's couch and watch TV. Regular cable TV. When I'm in a hotel, on-demand is the same. I watch the TV in another language, trying to figure out what they're saying.

Curtis Jackson

#43. It wasn't depression, exactly; more a weird, restless pressure that made me wander the house late at night, opening the best bottles of wine in our cellar and drinking them alone while I channel-surfed along the forgotten byways of cable TV.

Jennifer Egan

#44. Look, we can definitively agree that cable is far superior to network. That isn't to say that there can't be a great network drama or comedy that makes 20-plus episodes a year. We know that there are, and there have been.

Damon Lindelof

#45. There's certain things that you can do on cable that you can't do here on network TV, so then you have to think outside the box a little bit.

Josh Charles

#46. Writing fiction is the 'job' I try to keep at the center of things. The movie stuff has been a wonderful accident, though not entirely bizarre, either, as I have done some work in film before, and even directed a ridiculous, cable-access feature back in my 20s.

Jonathan Raymond

#47. In general, when I watch cable news during the day, it's frustrating because it reminds me of a game show. If I want to watch 'The Price is Right,' I'll watch 'The Price is Right.'

Don Lemon

#48. A rule against paid fast lanes would encourage additional capacity; a rule permitting paid fast lanes would simply encourage cable companies to create congested slow lanes on the Internet so they could make money by selling fast lanes to big companies.

Marvin Ammori

#49. If we can't have a serious conversation without politicizing it on cable TV and making it a scoring point for one day, we're in trouble.

John F. Kerry

#50. I just personally feel like the best writing for actors exists in cable television.

Donal Logue

#51. Whenever I catch a chunk of an Adam Sandler comedy on cable, it looks as badly shot and goofily tossed off as a Jerry Lewis gag reel once he hit the late downslide with 'Hardly Working' and 'Cracking Up.'

James Wolcott

#52. The only reason I'm ever in character as 'Larry The Cable Guy' is because that's what I'm hired to do. In my movies, obviously they hired 'Larry The Cable Guy' to be 'Larry The Cable Guy.' When I do my shows, I'm 'Larry The Cable Guy.' When I do Jay Leno, it's: 'Please welcome 'Larry The Cable Guy.'

Larry The Cable Guy

#53. People are sophisticated viewers, as evidenced by the risks that are taken in cable television, and I think network has to do the same thing.

Todd Lieberman

#54. Each day more coalition MPs in seats outside the South East come out against George Osborne's regional pay cut plans, and Vince Cable now claims they are dead.

Frances O'Grady

#55. The FCC has made it clear it would punish a cable or phone company for deviating from providing 'neutral' access.

Marvin Ammori

#56. There was no way to focus on the movement of the cable. If I looked down at the cable there was water moving everywhere. And if I looked up there was heavy mist blowing in front of my face. So it was a very unique, a weird sensation.

Nik Wallenda

#57. Some people say Larry the Cable Guy's only successful because he's pandering to the lowest common denominator, blatantly and not ironically exploiting people's racist and homophobic tendencies. Don't listen to these people, Larry. They're just bitter and jealous and right.

Greg Giraldo

#58. Myron sipped his coffee. Gourmet coffee. A year ago he never drank coffee. Then he started stopping into one of the new coffee bars that kept cropping up like bad movies on cable.

Harlan Coben

#59. A lot of cable television is shot on a single camera. Our eyes are more trained to that. It takes the camera off the crane, away from observing the action, to becoming a character in the story along with everyone else. People are getting used to that.

A. J. Bowen

#60. I had all those cable networks reporting to me, I had a number of windows in my office and I had all the corporate perks you could possibly imagine, but that wasn't what I was about, so I left.

Geraldine Laybourne

#61. For a man who purports to have learned of media ethics only this month, Mr. Williams has spent an undue amount of time appearing as a media ethicist on both CNN and the cable news networks of NBC.

Frank Rich

#62. Conservatives, despite their increasingly powerful presence on cable TV and talk radio, feel excluded and disregarded by the longstanding preponderance of liberal voices on public television.

Michael Medved

#63. If you watch cooking shows on cable, they have lots of British people. Because when you think good cooking, you immediately think Britain.

Craig Ferguson

#64. Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it.

Horace Mann

#65. I think Ronald Reagan is what happened ... The age of Reagan brought conservatism into the mainstream ... It also brought us the beginning of the new media-talk radio, the internet, cable television.

Douglas Brinkley

#66. Everybody's slow right now, there's nothing happening musically, everybody's all on cable television and being manipulated by all the television right now, what's on cable telling people what to listen to and stuff.

Kool Keith

#67. You would rather pay $50 a month for a cable modem than a free voiceband modem because of the attractiveness of that broadband connection.

Henry Samueli

#68. Cable cars are fun - everyone gets on board and becomes a rhesus monkey.

Eddie Izzard

#69. If I could make a device where people could just intuit everything you are thinking - a little cable you plug into, like, a USB port, I would make a billion dollars.

Mindy Kaling

#70. I had a 2-week courtship with a fellow student in the fiction workshop in Iowa and a 5-minute wedding in a lawyer's office above the coffee shop where we'd been having lunch that day. And so I sent a cable to my father saying, 'By the time you get this, Daddy, I'll already be Mrs. Blaise!'

Bharati Mukherjee

#71. The five million people who watch cable news are the political nation, the people who really care.

David Frum

#72. Prior to 'The Shield,' basic cable was just a wasteland of reruns and NASCAR. When we came along, I think there was a collective, 'Hey, if they can do that, why can't we?' from the basic-cable networks of the world. We ended up being the cornerstone for a network, and a great one.

Michael Chiklis

#73. any individual can create a word class online store for less than the cost of their cable bill.

Brian Patrick

#74. Hollywood has known this for quite a while: Cable is the place to go because they truly have a supportive network and they want to do things that cannot be seen on broadcast. That stimulates the writer-producer. Cable is king.

Bryan Cranston

#75. Virtually every magazine, newspaper, TV station and cable channel is owned by a big corporation, and they've squashed stories that they don't want the public to know about.

Tom Scholz

#76. The TV season is a year-long thing now, and the networks are starting to look at it that way, thanks to cable, satellites, and competition.

Drew Carey

#77. You can cut the fat from your spending: Stop taking taxis, call your cable company and ask for the same deal new subscribers get, have dinner at home and then a drink out instead of a $100 meal with wine.

Jean Chatzky

#78. The spider's most attenuated thread Is cord, is cable, to man's tender tie On earthly bliss; it breaks at every breeze.

Edward Young

#79. The current FCC chairman, Tom Wheeler, is highly regarded, but some distrust him because he is the former head lobbyist of both the cable and wireless phone industries. He's also made some statements suggesting he doesn't understand or opposes network neutrality.

Marvin Ammori

#80. Not a lot of people watch cable news, they just don't.

Scott Pelley

#81. For me, I think there's a lot more room in cable television to tell broader stories. NBC and the networks, they're all very mainstream, and they're a little more conservative in how they approach storytelling.

Gabriel Macht

#82. I realized that even in a world of proliferating media venues, online and in print, and on TV and on countless cable channels, the idea that I could be considered an expert on chronic knee pain was I think troubling for society, but very exciting for me.

John Hodgman

#83. We now assume that when people turn on the evening news, they basically already know what the news is. They've heard it on the radio. They've seen it on the Internet. They've seen it on one of the cable companies. So that makes our job a bit different.

Bob Schieffer

#84. I still have sympathy for some of the people who've fallen from grace in Washington. The feeding frenzy can be so unforgiving, especially in this day of nonstop cable news.

Andrea Mitchell

#85. President Obama. He is the man. I've tried the rest, and he is the best. My dream is for him to appoint me to be the Secretary of Humor. My first act will be to make whatever Larry the Cable Guy is doing illegal.

Andy Kindler

#86. But instead they tell you they'll come to fix your cable between noon and five, and I say, okay, I'll pay my next bill between July and November, but they don't laugh.

Tim Dorsey

#87. You might be a redneck if your coffee table used to be a telephone cable spool.

Jeff Foxworthy

#88. I'm doing 5000 seat theaters and audiences are going nuts, it's fantastic and it makes me very happy. I'm dirty, but not like this; I just do comedy that I find funny. I'm working on a new tv show for cable and it's not set up yet.

Bob Saget

#89. His touch cable knits my veins, remaking and remolding who I am.

Poppet

#90. I think cable TV in the United States is amazing right now. It's reinvented television, really. What's going on in the States with some of these cable shows like 'Breaking Bad' and 'Mad Men' is amazing stuff.

Robert Taylor

#91. The worst thing you can do is end up with a network show on cable or end up with a cable show on network.

Shawn Ryan

#92. I have been very fortunate in that I'm not doing all network shows or all cable shows, television has really become a year-round process in the way that it's made.

Bear McCreary

#93. One way to get high speed to the home is over cable systems.

Jon Postel

#94. It's definitely the highest rated pre-school show on Cable. It's difficult to mix markets that way in terms of ratings. It's hard to tell, you know, where channel 12, or Public Television, is.

Steve Burns

#95. I didn't have cable when 'Breaking Bad' started, so I came to it late and kept waiting for a friend to watch it with, and could not find a single person who was not already into Season 3 and didn't refuse to start watching it from the beginning.

Rhea Seehorn

#96. Obviously there are different standards and practices that are allowed on cable versus network. You just have to embrace what your network is going to allow.

Shawn Ryan

#97. If God's Word is not absolutely and completely true, it is too weak a cable to fix our anchorage and guarantee our eternal peace.

A.B. Simpson

#98. Britains still commemorate the Battle of Cable Street in London. There are still pop songs in Britain that reference Sir Oswald Mosley and his black shirts.

Rachel Maddow

#99. But that's the beauty of American cable news, darling. It doesn't have to be credible. It just has to be entertaining.

Daniel Silva

#100. And so we picked up our bags, he the trunk with his one good arm and I the rest, and staggered to the cable-car stop; in a moment rolled down the hill with our legs dangling to the sidewalk from the jiggling shelf, two broken-down heroes of the Western night.

Jack Kerouac