The British Broadcasting Corporation - Established in 1926, with a current Charter running until 2007. The national public broadcaster of the United Kingdom.
Broadcasting Standards Commission - Founded in 1997 as an independent watchdog on violence, sex, taste, decency unfair treatment and invasions of privacy. Covers television and radio productions.
Independent Television Commission - Replaced the Independent Broadcasting Authority in 1991. Licences and regulates commercial television in the United Kingdom.
The Radio Authority - Replaced the Independent Broadcasting Authority in 1991. Licences and regulates commercial radio in the United Kingdom.
Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Broadcasting In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom Broadcasting
Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken Broadcasting We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Broadcasting
I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Broadcasting Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Broadcasting
In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Broadcasting "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Broadcasting
You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain Broadcasting May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich Broadcasting
"Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball Broadcasting "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Broadcasting
In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Broadcasting To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous Broadcasting
Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Broadcasting "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Broadcasting
At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Man and wife make one fool. Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all Broadcasting A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Broadcasting
Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill Broadcasting The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Spinster: A bachelor's wife. To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau Broadcasting
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard Broadcasting To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau Broadcasting
