BBC Cymru/Wales - Official site of the public broadcaster for Wales.
S4C - Channel 4 Wales - Homepages for the national Welsh-language broadcaster in Wales. Shockwave an advantage.
HTV Wales - News and programme information from the national ITV station for Wales.
Harlech House of Graphics - The history of the onscreen identity of Independent television for Wales and the West. A Transdiffusion Network associate.
BBC Wales - Bay College - Bay College fictional site which complements the BBC Wales drama First Degree. Includes character profiles.
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper Television "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Television
If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, Television Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Television
"I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana Television The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde Television
Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna Television My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Television
Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Television Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Television
Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Television What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning Television
I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Television "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) Television
When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold Television "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Television
I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France Television In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde Television
To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Television The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Television
Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Television Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde Television
