Survivor Show Sayings

#1. Why more reality-based TV? You'd think that after the first 'Survivor' it would have gone away, but it hasn't. The public demands it because they get all caught up in the personal stories and want to see more and more. Every new 'Survivor' is going to show you more.

Montel Williams

#2. Fer in our dreams we find ourselves. Who we were. Who we are. Who we can become. Sleep. Dream.

Moira Young

#3. Sometimes you've got to go to the wrong place just to show that you're not afraid to go there.

Leonardo DiCaprio

#4. Typically, only about 2 percent of the American populace tunes in to PBS's 'Nova' series - the most successful science show on the tube. 'Survivor' and 'X Factor' get twice the ratings.

Seth Shostak

#5. If he's just watching, then we're all unwilling participants in the universe's biggest reality show - the original Survivor.

Erwin Raphael McManus

#6. Outwit, outlast, outplay. It's the tagline for the television show Survivor and it's damn near what presidenting is like, too.

George W. Bush

#7. I don't want to be thought of as a survivor because you have to continue getting involved in difficult situations to show off that particular gift, and I'm not interested in doing that anymore.

Carrie Fisher

#8. Shina is the Japanese appellation for China most commonly used during the first half of the twentieth century. After World War II the name for China reverted to chugoku (Middle Kingdom), a common name from before the Meiji Restoration (1868).4

Stefan Tanaka

#9. If a man is tongue-tied, don't laugh at him, but, rather, feel pity for him, as you would for a man with broken legs.

Abraham Cahan

#10. By opening the door to my life, it is my hope and mission to shed light on the hidden wounds of abuse, to end the stigma and shame associated with abuse, and to show survivors true courage, strength, inspiration, and determination.

Erin Merryn

#11. To blow and to swallow at the same time is not easy; I cannot at the same time be here and also there.
[Lat., Simul flare sorbereque haud facile
Est: ego hic esse et illic simul, haud potui.]

Plautus

#12. More American young people can tell you where an island that the 'Survivor' TV series came from is located than can identify Afghanistan or Iraq. Ironically a TV show seems more real or at least more meaningful interesting or relevant than reality.

John Fahey

#13. What blinds us, or what makes historical progress very difficult, is our lack of awareness of our ignorance.

Terence McKenna

#14. I don't have much interest in writing if there are not opportunities to crack open the inherited forms. The writing I love to read most does this as well. I'm a form junkie.

Lidia Yuknavitch

#15. You know the bad thing about being a survivor ... You keep having to get into difficult situations in order to show off your gift.

Carrie Fisher

#16. Let's be honest: we all watch the show at home and play 'armchair' 'Survivor,' inserting our opinions, comments and yelling at the TV screen.

Jenna Morasca

#17. Every show on television has a downward trend because there are so many more things to watch. You can only deal with what is the benchmark of a hit series and 'Survivor' clearly remains a hit series.

Mark Burnett

#18. Societies where there are worthy men and women of God, not necessarily preachers or religious men, but men that know the ways of God, they stand up against the collapse of equity in their land

Sunday Adelaja

#19. I think the last reality show I watched was the first 'Survivor'. That was a long time ago.

David Henrie

#20. You, your grandmother, the chairman----YOU'RE ALL ABUNCH OF FRIGGIN' IDIOTS!!!"

~Haruhi

Bisco Hatori

#21. Sometimes I feel like I'm a contestant in a reality show that probably would be called The Apprentice Survivor Millionaire.

Bob Iger

#22. We have stay-in date nights where we make a plan to watch certain TV shows together. 'Survivor,' for example, is our favorite show. And I make a healthy dinner and we sit down and it's our date. I love it.

Alison Sweeney

#23. wealth in the rich countries is currently divided into two approximately equal (or comparable) parts: real estate and financial assets.

Thomas Piketty

#24. The number-one show in America on Sundays will be Celebrity Apprentice. Monday nights, The Voice will be number one. Wednesday nights, Survivor will be number one. And Friday nights, Shark Tank will be number one. It just takes some time management for me to focus.

Scott Raab

#25. 'Castaways' was a play on what if a reality show like 'Survivor' was unknowingly set on an island inhabited by a sub-human race of creatures? Readers have often asked me to consider turning the short story into a full-length novel. So I did.

Brian Keene

#26. Without harming anyone, how can I make this world more peaceful? How can I help others to fulfill their desires? How can I enhance and enrich the beauty and happiness for humanity?

Debasish Mridha

#27. This is a job and Survivor is a game show. So, this is something to take seriously and work really hard at.

Colleen Haskell

#28. I'd still like to see 'Survivor' minus the planned show-biz parts. That would be the purest form of show business - I want to see someone so hungry that they eat somebody else's foot.

Albert Brooks

#29. What could possibly go wrong with faking love with a stranger on national TV?

Zoe Forward

#30. Never forget: Death was Satan's greatest victory.

Billy Graham

#31. It wasn't the first reality show, but 'Survivor' was the first big network hit, and I'm proud to have played a part in that history as the winner of season six, 'Survivor: Amazon.'

Jenna Morasca

#32. Oh, he's not like that," said Favonius.
Jason flinched. "You can read my mind?"
"I don't need to." Favonius tossed his bronze hoop in the air. "Everyone has the wrong impression of Cupid ... until they meet him.

Rick Riordan

#33. Secrets are truths that show what we've been through - what we've survived.

Dannika Dark

#34. On a political sickbed a people is usually rejuvenated and rediscovers its spirit, after having gradually lost it in seeking and preserving power. Culture owes its peaks to politically weak ages.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#35. As the show's executive producer, I envisioned something akin to "Gilligan's Island" meets Lord of the Flies meets Ten Little Indians mets "The Real World." "Survivor" marks a return to a core element of adventure: staying alive.

Mark Burnett

#36. Size, perspective- large objects, when you make them too 3D, you dimensionalize them too much, they appear tiny, so you have to be careful about things like that.

Bryan Singer