Up With Carl

Precision is not reality. - Henri Matisse

A TV licence is a licence to print money. - Roy Thomson

Reality is nothing but a collective hunch. - Jane Wagner

Television has raised writing to a new low. - Samuel Goldwyn

In television blood is thicker than talent. - Gerald F Lieberman

Imitation is the sincerest form of television. - Fred Allen

Ah, TV respects me. It laughs with me, not at me! - Homer Simpson

Love paid a price so hope could become a reality. - Susan Gaddis

Sometimes I only hope to make a good popcorn movie. - Lou D. Phillips

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. - Albert Einstein

The distance between your dreams and reality is called action. - Unknown

When your wife asks what's on TV, dust is not the right answer. - Unknown

The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense. - Tom Clancy

The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime television. - Dave Barry

Being an actor on a movie set is like going to the playground at recess. - Melissa Leo

So long as there's a jingle in your head, television isn't free. - Jason Love

It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit. - William Makepeace Thackeray

I am a genre lover - everything from spaghetti western to samurai movies. - Quentin Tarantino

The reality is you either step into the future, or you become a dinosaur. - M Shadows

Television: a medium. So called because it's neither rare nor well done. - Ernie Kovacs

Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it. - Lloyd Alexander

Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other. - Ann Landers

You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality. - Ayn Rand

Do you realize if it weren't for Edison we'd be watching TV by candlelight? - Al Boliska

I'm kinda disapointed that Canada isn't like the South Park movie said it was. - Joel Madden

If it weren't for the Japanese and Germans, we wouldn't have any good war movies. - Stanley Ross

For those of you watching who do not have television sets, live commentary is on Radio 2. - David Coleman

So many people are on television that don't know me, and they're like experts on me. - Donald Trump

When you expect good, it's available constantly, and it makes itself a reality in your life. - Alfre Woodard

Our fears are more numerous than our dangers, and we suffer more in our imagination than in reality. - Seneca

The past exists only in our memories,
The future only in our plans.
The present is our only reality. - Robert Pirsig

Some movie stars wear their sunglasses even in Church. They're afraid God might recognize them and ask for autographs. - Fred Allen

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant. - Max DePree

One supreme fact which I have discovered is that it is not willpower but imagination that creates. Imagination creates reality. - Richard Wagner

The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are. - Samuel Johnson

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. - Albert Einstein

He who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never be able to change reality, and will never, therefore, make any progress. - Anwar Sadat

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. - R Buckminster Fuller

You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it. - Malcolm X

I could never have imagined that firing 67 people on national television would actually make me more popular, especially with the younger generation. - Donald Trump