Quotes About Canceled

#1. To move to a new place
that's the greatest excitement. For a while you believe you carry nothing with you
all is canceled from before, or cauterized, and you begin again and nothing will go wrong this time.

Margaret Laurence

#2. As soon as you become complacent your show gets canceled.

Dick Wolf

#3. Our nation will have 50 percent less ability to do whatever our bidding is because the joint strike fighter program was canceled. There is nothing that is going to be a replacement besides the Joint Strike Fighter.

James F. Amos

#4. People come up to me and say, 'It's too bad the space program got canceled.' This is not the case, and yet that is what most of the public thinks has happened.

Buzz Aldrin

#5. I remember being unbelievable bummed when 'Freaks and Geeks' was canceled.

Bill Hader

#6. When my children were very young, I was slated to go on a business trip. When it was nearly canceled, I decided I wouldn't tell anyone and go off for a week's vacation anyway. In the end, the trip went off as planned. But I was intrigued by the idea of an illicit holiday.

Sophie Hannah

#7. This is how it goes when Homeland Security's been canceled due to lack of sanity.

Stephen King

#8. Think you have lost it all? You haven't. "God's gifts and God's call are under full warranty
never canceled, never rescinded" (Rom. 11:29 MSG).

Max Lucado

#9. It was as if real life had been canceled for the day.

Jennifer Weiner

#10. Will you stay with me " she asked. Her voice was the thinnest whisper almost canceled out by a low groan of thunder ... Forever " he whispered back. The sweet sound of his voice filled her up.

Lauren Kate

#11. Yesterday is a canceled check: Forget it.
Tomorrow is a promissory note: Don't count on it.
Today is ready cash: Use it!

Edwin C. Bliss

#12. To make sure that votes are never canceled out by illegal votes, we instituted a photo ID requirement. And don't you think it's fair to apply at least the same standard required to get a library card or to board an airpane?

Rick Perry

#13. Canceled checks will be to future historians and cultural anthropologists what the Dead Sea Scrolls and hieroglyphics are to us.

Brent Staples

#14. I think there's really no rhyme or reason as to what keeps a show on air. Surely it's a numbers game, but some of the best shows get canceled, and some shows where you don't totally understand why they're on the air stay on for 15 or 20 years.

Jordana Spiro

#15. If I could peer into a crystal ball, I imagine I would see an ever-growing list of canceled tours, concerts, and appearances in her future, for fear of leaving her husband home alone.

Brandi Glanville

#16. Another misconception is that an order is canceled when you hit 'cancel' on your computer. But, the fact is it's canceled only when the market gets the cancellation.

Arthur Levitt

#17. He had the sex tape, the canceled tour dates and now the record label's sword of Damocles hanging over his head to prove it.

Pepper Winters

#18. When my syndicated show got canceled, the next day I still knew how to write jokes. That was a huge revelation. Because at first you think, "I won't have any shelter! What am I gonna do? The sun is hot. Very thirsty."

Jon Stewart

#19. CNN canceled all the shows I was on. They're going in a different direction, but that's their privilege. They own the business.

Robert Novak

#20. I canceled a show once to be with someone that I loved.

Ricky Martin

#21. You kissed, Wheeler, as in the guy who just canceled his wedding to a raging she-beast?" Her

Jay Crownover

#22. I am contracting continually a debt of gratitude which time will never see canceled. There is a treasury from which it will be repaid, but I do not dispense its stores.

Dorothea Dix

#23. For a long time, my shows were about people walking out or about getting my gigs canceled or having the presenter not wanting to pay me.

Eric Bogosian

#24. I've never canceled a subscription to a newspaper because of bad cartoons or editorials. If that were the case, I wouldn't have any newspapers or magazines to read.

Richard M. Nixon

#25. Why things get canceled or not is so unbelievably out of actors' hands that it's one of those things where you've just got to ride with it.

Peter Jacobson

#26. The only thing worse than the Pastor Terry Jones scheduled Koran burning is the fact that he canceled the proposed event.

Henry Rollins

#27. What is Obamacare doing? It's destroying the only kind of plans people without insurance ever get. And nobody seems to be noticing except the people who are being canceled and then can't find a replacement because it's too expensive.

Rush Limbaugh

#28. 'Privileged,' without a doubt, was one of the best work experiences of my life. Every crew member cried when we got canceled. But I was then given the opportunity to be in New York and on 'Gossip Girl' and spend the summer in a city that I've absolutely fallen in love with.

Joanna Garcia

#29. She moaned in playful disappointment. "You shouldn't have canceled. It would be fund to take a picture. You'll be laughing at this years from now.

Stacey O'Neale

#30. I feel terrible for directors of TV because all the episodes have to look the same. They make a great series for five or six years, and then when it's canceled, they can't break out on their own.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

#31. Genetically, I have tons of musical background in my life. My mother's father was a famous Weimar-era composer, Ernst Toch. My father's mother was the head of the Vienna Conservatory's piano department. It all canceled out in my case. I'm completely hopeless in music.

Lawrence Weschler

#32. This was heaven. "Hey, baby," Hugh said. Heaven just got canceled.

Ilona Andrews

#33. Journalists told me that a talk show wouldn't work. Some told me I was going to get canceled before my first season was up.

Tyra Banks

#34. Mainstream Islamic jurisprudence continues to hold that the sword verses (9:5 and also 9:29) have "abrogated, canceled, and replaced" those verses that call for "tolerance, compassion, and peace."32

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#35. The number of vacations me and my husband have canceled ... if you really want a job, book a non-refundable vacation. But obviously we're blessed too.

Melissa Rosenberg

#36. That was par for the course but I also found that commissions were being canceled and in fact I considered this directly libelous - I write biographies for a living as well as being a journalist - for a non fiction book to be called fiction from beginning to end.

Anthony Holden

#37. I told myself a while back, 'Love what you do, but don't fall in love with what you do.' That way you won't be brokenhearted if ever it gets canceled five episodes in - which has happened to me.

Nathan Fillion

#38. Through a tree we were made debtors to God; so through a tree we have our debt canceled.

Irenaeus Of Lyons

#39. When is the last time government admitted it might have made a mistake and canceled a program?

Thomas Bray

#40. A wedding is earth and water and a species of irreducible light and the flat belly of a harbor and a mango about to ripen and fall into gravity's caress and the waves subsiding and resuming their concerto in a minor key and the rush hour canceled by the stun of auspicious beginnings.

Mark McMorris

#41. With three of its fourteen episodes still unaired and two of them still in production, Firefly was canceled.

Amy Pascale

#42. When someone bestows something on you, no matter how true it is, when someone says, 'Sexiest Man Alive,' I'm honestly going, 'Thank you. Right on.' For me, it's never canceled out anything, it's never made me go, 'Does this make me less talented of an actor?'

Matthew McConaughey

#43. Well, you're expelling us aren't you?" said Ron. "Not today, Mr. Weasley." Snape looked as though Christmas had been canceled.

J.K. Rowling

#44. When 'Hung' got canceled, I was available for pilot season, and 'Arrow' was the first thing I auditioned for. It wasn't the first script that came to me, but it was my first audition.

Stephen Amell

#45. I got canceled in the middle of making the pilot.

Harvey Korman

#46. I have to say, I loved working on 'Men of a Certain Age.' It was a real shame when that show got canceled.

Sarah Clarke

#47. My progress reminded me of the horses in The Whip. They raced at the limit of their speed directly toward the audience. But they raced on a treadmill which canceled out their progress.

Tallulah Bankhead

#48. I was 15 years old, taken out into a parking lot on the set of 'Donny & Marie,' and at the time I was 5-foot-5 and 103 pounds - like, nothing. I was told I was an embarrassment to my family and the show would be canceled if I didn't lose 10 pounds.

Marie Osmond

#49. Each novel presents an opposition, which is never canceled out dialectically, of many consciousnesses, and they do not merge in the unity of an evolving spirit, just as souls and spirits do not merge in the formally polyphonic world of Dante.

Mikhail Bakhtin

#50. Confession breaks the power of canceled sin. It also heals the broken heart.

Mark Batterson

#51. I always know I'm going to lose my job. It's either going to be canceled next week or next year or nine years from now, but I always know my job is going to go.

Patricia Heaton

#52. There's a creative freedom with being under the radar. But I guess if you're too under the radar, you get canceled?

Casey Wilson

#53. I wasn't allowed to play in some universities in the United States and out of twenty-five concerts, twenty-three were canceled unless I would substitute my black bass player for my old white bass player, which I wouldn't do.

Dave Brubeck

#54. The months and years of struggle were suddenly canceled by three weeks of exercise and some visualization and focus.

Karan Mahajan

#55. Sometimes I feel like I'm being watched, but then I remember that my show was canceled three years ago.

Demetri Martin

#56. Why did a demon who possessed the savage strength of a werewolf also need such compelling beauty?
It was one of those philosophical questions that had no answer.
Like why Firefly had been canceled after just one season.

Alexandra Ivy

#57. Sound has spoiled the most ancient of the world's arts, the art of pantomime, and has canceled out the great beauty that is silence.

Charlie Chaplin

#58. I've shot a lot of pilots that have never seen the light of day, jobs that have fallen apart or gotten canceled, so I'm really weary about what contracts I sign and where I swear my loyalty to.

D.J. Cotrona

#59. Whoever uses force without Right ... puts himself into a state of War with those, against whom he uses it, and in that state all former Ties are canceled, all other Rights cease, and every one has a Right to defend himself, and to resist the Aggressor.

John Locke

#60. Friends are hard to come by in L.A., especially in the entertainment industry. I've known a lot of people who hang out with someone because they're working on a show, and as soon as that show gets canceled, they find someone new.

Sarah Hyland

#61. In the era of networks only, I cannot tell you the number of shows that we don't know about that did not survive. They got canceled. But there are a few that survived by accident, because they didn't have anything else to do, and they stayed with it.

Henry Blodget

#62. The problem is, you have to look at Afghanistan also in a global context where we've canceled basically our missile defense system undercutting the Czech Republic in Poland. We've I think not dealt with Iran with the kind of resolve that would show that we understand the nature of that threat.

Rahm Emanuel

#63. I would love to be on 'Curb Your Enthusiasm.' I'd love to be on that. A lot of my favorite shows get canceled really early on. I liked 'Twin Peaks.' If I had a time machine I'd be in that.

Matthew Gray Gubler

#64. Every youth movement presents itself as a loan to the future, and tries to call in its lien in advance, but when there is no future all loans are canceled.

Greil Marcus

#65. I don't know why it was canceled, but 'Mancuso, FBI,' it should have had a good long run, but it wasn't picked up. Maybe there was a problem with me. I have no idea.

Robert Loggia

#66. I've had it where things didn't go well for me with movies or something that got canceled.

David Spade

#67. Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error.

Benjamin Disraeli

#68. Fate can save you and it can kill you. Either way, fate binds us through an invisible web of circumstances. Change one undesirable fate and another desirable fate is canceled out.

Cassia Leo

#69. Sony has canceled the big Seth Rogen movie, 'The Interview.' North Koreans hacked their email so Sony said, 'Now we can't show anybody the movie.' I'm disappointed. I think this is the wrong thing to do. And I hear in the film Meryl Streep is great as Kim Jong Un.

Conan O'Brien

#70. This was great fun and a nice paycheck and then, as these things happen, the show was canceled.

Michael Storm

#71. Sex always has consequences. When Hitler's mother spread her legs that night, she effectively canceled out the spreading of fifteen to twenty million other pairs of legs.

George Carlin

#72. As you know, when Star Trek was canceled after the second season, it was the activism of the fans that revived it for a third season.

George Takei

#73. When I look back at The Judy Garland Show, I have such mixed feelings. It broke my mother's heart when they canceled it.

Lorna Luft

#74. The thing about TV is it's a meritocracy. I love that aspect of it - and I've had shows that have gone on the air and been canceled. I've seen the good and the bad of it.

Doug Liman

#75. That technology has canceled geography contains just enough merit to be called a plausible fallacy,

Robert D. Kaplan

#76. You do a job; your show gets canceled. You get used to it.

Kaley Cuoco

#77. Science gives man ever greater powers but less significance. It gives him better tools with less purposes. It is silent on origins, values, and ultimate aims. It gives life and history no meaning or worth that is not canceled by time and death.

Will Durant

#78. Avocados are one of my weaknesses. Creamy but firm, even plain, they call margaritas, chips, and good times to mind. Fortunately, they are so nutritious that the fat content is pretty much canceled out.

Beth Harbison

#79. Having a show get canceled is like, 'Oh, you have caviar between your teeth,' you know what I mean? Because you had a show in the first place.

Jonathan Ames

#80. I've got a lot of shows under my belt that are ancient history solely because they were on the air before this video revolution came along and ensured that canceled shows could continue to have a bit of a presence.

Jim Beaver

#81. If I had taken time to think, it would have gotten away again, but conscious thinking had been canceled by pain, surprise, and the horror I suppose almost any man feels when he sees blood pouring from a part of his body that was whole only seconds before.

Stephen King

#82. EASTER HAS BEEN CANCELED - THEY FOUND THE BODY

Jim Butcher

#83. We remain in the Romantic cycle initiated by Rousseau: liberal idealism canceled by violence, barbarism, disillusionment and cynicism.

Camille Paglia

#84. I honestly think I could sit down and write a show tonight that the critics would love, and I know it would be canceled within four weeks. I know what the critics love. We write and produce for people, not for critics.

Sherwood Schwartz

#85. The only two people who can give you real feedback about your product are people who just purchased it and people who have just canceled.

Jason Fried

#86. There may be a Nurse Ratched-like listing of things that must be done right this moment: foods that must come out of the freezer, appointments that must be canceled or made, hairs that must be tweezed. But you hold an imaginary gun to your head and make yourself stay at the desk.

Anne Lamott

#87. I would be terribly disappointed if anything would get in the way of my being cast in something, or if performances were canceled. It was a fix that I obviously needed.

Trevor Nunn

#88. Let us throw ourselves into the ocean of His goodness, where every failing will be canceled and anxiety turned into love.

Paul Of The Cross

#89. I don't know what it's like to be an actor, where if your show gets canceled, really you're just a bum.

Louis C.K.

#90. The only people who have never had a problem with me speaking in their venues are independent bookstores and libraries. Universities and humanities councils have canceled me, but never an independent bookstore.

Bill Ayers

#91. Within a few months in 2008, household finances were crushed as asset values fell, millions of jobs were lost, countless credit cards were canceled, and thousands of homes were foreclosed on.

Roger Altman

#92. Being nice merely to be liked in return nullifies the point.

Criss Jami