Tiswas Quotes

#1. I think back to my time in children's television, back in the 1970s, and the amount of innovation that was going on then. Because the mass market wasn't focused on it, so you had a freedom to do amazing things, like 'Vision On,' and 'Tiswas.'

Sylvester McCoy

#2. Justice. That's what we're supposed to be learning.The law ... the law should be fair. Power should be used fairly.

Anne Osterlund

#3. My own strong feeling was that the gay liberation movement really got national attraction in the truest sense of the word later in the '70s, in the '80s, and especially in the '90s.

Tom Brokaw

#4. Your father is a piece of work," her mother said. "Every time, he breaks your hearts. And every time, he expects me to pick up the pieces." Pick up, sweep aside - same difference in her mom's world. Eleanor didn't argue.

Rainbow Rowell

#5. It was the old New York way ... the way people who dreaded scandal more than disease, who placed decency above courage, and who considered that nothing was more ill-bred than "scenes", except those who gave rise to them.

Edith Wharton

#6. Yes, there's a lot of sand here. Beebee-Ate? Okay. Hello, Beebee-Ate. My name is Rey. No, just Rey.

Alan Dean Foster

#7. When you get a jean for a larger girl, you have to have them tailored for you. Tailoring is indeed everything.

Jill Scott

#8. I realized that the job of a hero is not to save the galaxy, or rescue princesses, or slay all the dragons. That may be part of it, but in the end, a hero only has one job, and that's to make himself unnecessary.

Yahtzee Croshaw

#9. As long as there's light we're brave enough

William Golding

#10. Here's what my CV usually does not say: I was trained as a teacher. My first job lasted less than 60 days. I was an assistant professor at a good college at Delhi University, but I found it very political, very suffocating. At the age of 23, you're not very tolerant of those things.

Amit Bhatia

#11. Luther's point was that, according to Scripture, salvation is not a bake sale:

Sarah Vowell

#12. I invest in things for the long term and have a long horizon and the flexibility.

Jerry Yang

#13. I was hesitant to approach people. I'm socially awkward. But I was working on a number of memorials, and finally it dawned on me: These are memorials to people who wrote, so I should use their writing. That's how I started to quit.

Jenny Holzer

#14. Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism.

Twyla Tharp