"If you can't run, you crawl. If you can't crawl-- you find someone to carry you."
- Joss Whedon
"It's a beautiful day in this neighborhood,A beautiful day for a neighbor.Would you be mine?Could you be mine?...It's a neighborly day in this beauty wood,A neighborly day for a beauty.Would you be min..."
- Fred Rogers
"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book."
- Groucho Marx
"So please, oh please, we beg, we pray,Go throw your TV set away,And in its place you can installA lovely bookshelf on the wall.Then fill the shelves with lots of books."
- Roald Dahl
"Some stories have to be written because no one would believe the absurdity of it all."
- Shannon L. Alder
"Calvin:"It says here that 'religion is the opiate of the masses.'...what do you suppose that means?"Television: "...it means that Karl Marx hadn't seen anything yet"
- Bill Watterson
"If you were born with the ability to change someone’s perspective or emotions, never waste that gift. It is one of the most powerful gifts God can give—the ability to influence."
"Television's perfect. You turn a few knobs, a few of those mechanical adjustments at which the higher apes are so proficient, and lean back and drain your mind of all thought. And there you are watchi..."
- Raymond Chandler
"There are different ways people make this place. Sweat, exercise and pain is one way. You can see them in the gyms, in the well-ordered swimming pools. You can see them jogging in the small, worn park..."
- David Mitchell
"Personality begins where comparison leaves off. Be unique. Be memorable. Be confident. Be proud."