Greg Dyke quote: "Now, if that's how she reacted to the arrival of a new television set and having to learn how to use a new remote control, how is she possibly going to cope with digital switchover? Who is going to convince her and thousands of old people like her that, in the interests of greater viewing choice (choice that she has made very clear to me she doesn't want), her viewing life will be totally disrupted?"

We could do with beating Sunderland and getting Manchester United away.
GREG DYKE

We would like to be away at Old Trafford, or at Chelsea if they beat Everton.
GREG DYKE

Probably not 'War and Peace,' but probably a lot of sports clips,
GREG DYKE

It's changing faster now than ever because of digital.
GREG DYKE

I'm not going to talk about Hutton now, but I will at some stage. And I don't necessarily accept the...
GREG DYKE

I expected her to be pleased and excited. Sadly, she was no such thing. When it arrived my mother bu...
GREG DYKE

I was number one in the Guardian's top 100 people in the media two years ago. Last year I was number...
GREG DYKE

If Iraq proved anything, it was that the BBC cannot afford to mix patriotism and journalism. This is...
GREG DYKE

Jefferson Forest took it to us in the first half. They came out very intense with a great effort.
WARNER DYKE

We're concerned with the long-term economic prosperity of Rowan County: jobs, jobs, jobs.
DYKE MESSINGER

I'm as excited about this as anything we've ever worked on. There's a lot that's right about the cou...
DYKE MESSINGER

We're not telling the story of Rowan County, and we need to do that.
DYKE MESSINGER

Just knowing you don't have the answers is a recipe for humility, openness, acceptance, forgiven...
DICK VAN DYKE

When I get some budding young comic who'll come up to me and say, 'What was it like to do it...
DICK VAN DYKE

Four things a man must learn to doIf he would make his record true:To think without confusion clearl...
HENRY VAN DYKE

Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to live and to work and to play and to look up at th...
HENRY VAN DYKE

I am standing upon the seashore. A ship at my side spreads her white sails to the morning breeze and...
HENRY VAN DYKE

A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war.
HENRY VAN DYKE

Many a treasure besides Ali Baba's is unlocked with a verbal key.
HENRY VAN DYKE

It is with rivers as it is with people: the greatest are not always the most agreeable nor the best ...
HENRY VAN DYKE

To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall reall...
HENRY VAN DYKE

There are two good rules which ought to be written on every heart - never to believe anything bad ab...
HENRY VAN DYKE

Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are...
HENRY VAN DYKE

In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of int...
HENRY VAN DYKE

Love is the best thing in the world, and the thing that lives the longest.
HENRY VAN DYKE

What we do belongs to what we are; and what we are is what becomes of us.
HENRY VAN DYKE

There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bra...
HENRY VAN DYKE

The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between th...
HENRY VAN DYKE

Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the sta...
HENRY VAN DYKE

As long as habit and routine dictate the pattern of living, new dimensions of the soul will not emer...
HENRY VAN DYKE

When I was a kid, I loved all the silent comedians - Buster Keaton, Laurel and Hardy, Chaplin. And I...
DICK VAN DYKE

Bob Hope, like Mark Twain, had a sense of humor that was uniquely American, and like Twain, we'l...
DICK VAN DYKE

'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang' was a movie that I repeatedly turned down. The movie's produce...
DICK VAN DYKE

For some reason, as time gets short in life, wasting time escaping through entertainment bothers me.
DICK VAN DYKE

Time is too slow for those who wait
too swift for those who fear
too long for those who grieve...
HENRY VAN DYKE

Success... it's what you do with what you've got.
LEROY VAN DYKE

Time is Too slow for those who wait, Too swift for those who fear, Too long for those who grieve, To...
HENRY VAN DYKE

Who can explain the secret pathos of Nature's loveliness? It is a touch of melancholy inherited from...
HENRY VAN DYKE

There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift man...
HENRY VAN DYKE

I thank God for the honesty and virility of Jesus religion which makes us face the facts and calls u...
HENRY VAN DYKE

Every house where love abides
And friendship is a guest,
Is surely home, and home, sweet home<...
HENRY VAN DYKE

Gratitude is a twofold love -- love coming to visit us, and love running out to greet a welcome gues...
HENRY VAN DYKE

Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express...
HENRY VAN DYKE

There are two good rules which ought to be written on every heart; never to believe anything bad abo...
HENRY VAN DYKE

There is no personal charm so great as the charm of a cheerful temperament.
HENRY VAN DYKE

The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between th...
HENRY VAN DYKE

Use what talent you possess-the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang b...
HENRY VAN DYKE

Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, to...
HENRY VAN DYKE

Time is too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice...
HENRY VAN DYKE

Commemoration of Douglas Downes, Founder of the Society of Saint Francis, 1957 Who seeks for he...
HENRY VAN DYKE

There is such a thing as taking ourselves and the world too seriously, or at any rate too anxiously....
HENRY VAN DYKE

Feast of Hildegard, Abbess of Bingen, Visionary, 1179 Thou wayfaring Jesus -- a pilgrim and strang...
HENRY VAN DYKE

Who seeks for heaven alone to save his soul, May keep the path, but will not reach the goal; While...
HENRY VAN DYKE

Love is not getting, but giving. Not a wild dream of pleasure and a madness of desire--oh, no--lo...
HENRY VAN DYKE

Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those t...
HENRY VAN DYKE

Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at th...
HENRY VAN DYKE

Tact is the unsaid part of what you think; it's opposite, the unthought part of which you say
HENRY VAN DYKE

Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang...
HENRY VAN DYKE

Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.
HENRY VAN DYKE

Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those tha...
HENRY VAN DYKE

I'm always announcing my retirement. I'm still not retired.
DICK VAN DYKE

I wanted to be a radio announcer.
DICK VAN DYKE

When I was a kid, I had ambitions for being a television announcer, which was before television took...
DICK VAN DYKE

I was the class clown, you know, that kind of thing, and I gathered around me a group of guys who al...
DICK VAN DYKE

Genius is talent set on fire by courage.
HENRY VAN DYKE

Women will never be as successful as men because they have no wives to advise them.
DICK VAN DYKE

When I auditioned for 'Bye Bye Birdie' on Broadway, Gower Champion said, 'You've got...
DICK VAN DYKE

What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But ...
HENRY VAN DYKE

Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.
HENRY VAN DYKE

A friend is what the heart needs all the time.
HENRY VAN DYKE

Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those tha...
HENRY VAN DYKE

Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why.
HENRY VAN DYKE

When you're a kid, you lay in the grass and watch the clouds going over, and you literally don&#...
DICK VAN DYKE

The Horny Toad in Cave Creek has great food. When I'm in Arizona, I have at least one meal there...
DICK VAN DYKE

The American people hit the streets and did something that the government wouldn't do: the Civil...
DICK VAN DYKE

I was 5 years old when the stock market crashed; I lost everything.
DICK VAN DYKE

I asked Fred Astaire once when he was about my age if he still danced, and he said 'Yes, but it ...
DICK VAN DYKE

I wanted to be Stan Laurel, then I wanted to be Fred Astaire and then Captain Kangaroo. I actually s...
DICK VAN DYKE

In my seventies, I exercised to stay ambulatory. In my eighties, I exercise to avoid assisted living...
DICK VAN DYKE

Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas t...
HENRY VAN DYKE

Self is the only prison that can bind the soul.
HENRY VAN DYKE

No, I did night clubs right here in Los Angeles. My partner, Phil Erickson, put me in the business, ...
DICK VAN DYKE

I pay attention to the news. I take the 'New York Times.' I do the Saturday crossword.
DICK VAN DYKE

Do you know that I was the anchor on the 'CBS Morning Show?' And my newsman was Walter Cronk...
DICK VAN DYKE

I'm crazy about Judi Dench.
DICK VAN DYKE

Television's going, as far as I'm concerned, downhill, and I'm an anachronism.
DICK VAN DYKE

Women will never be as successful as men because they have no wives to advise them.
DICK VAN DYKE

'The Dick Van Dyke Show' was the most fun I ever had and the most creative period of my life...
DICK VAN DYKE

All of us involved say 'The Dick Van Dyke Show' was the best five years of our lives. We wer...
DICK VAN DYKE

Somebody sent me a British magazine listing the 20 worst dialects ever done in movies. I was No. 2, ...
DICK VAN DYKE

I was a 'Laurel and Hardy' nut. I got to know Laurel at the end of his life, and it was a gr...
DICK VAN DYKE

I've had a lot of writers, in particular, who said they got into writing because of the 'Van...
DICK VAN DYKE

I think, the 'Van Dyke Show' and 'Mary Poppins' are two of the best periods of my li...
DICK VAN DYKE

I never had a lot of drive, but because I had family responsibilities, I had a lot of tenacity - the...
DICK VAN DYKE

I am standing upon the seashore.A ship at my side spreads her whitesails to the morning breeze and s...
HENRY VAN DYKE

You know, I'm almost out of the habit of watching episodic television now.
DICK VAN DYKE

Once you get the kids raised and the mortgage paid off and accomplish what you wanted to do in life,...
DICK VAN DYKE

I have four kids, seven grandkids, and four great-grandkids. Maybe I can become a great-great-grandf...
DICK VAN DYKE

I was the worst game show host that ever lived, and I knew it.
DICK VAN DYKE

Stan said he used to keep Hardy late, make him miss his golf game, and really get him mad.
DICK VAN DYKE

Probably one of the happiest moments, outside the birth of all of my kids, was the first time we won...
DICK VAN DYKE

In Bernie Sanders, I see a man saying that the emperor has no clothes while everyone around him insi...
DICK VAN DYKE

There's a lot of very funny people I'd love to work with that I've never met, of course....
DICK VAN DYKE

One day in '61, I was looking in the Santa Monica phone book for a number, and there it was: Sta...
DICK VAN DYKE

No, no, it was the relationships. That was that group. People believed that Rob and Laura were reall...
DICK VAN DYKE

My maternal grandfather owned a grocery store that also sold kosher meat. He did well.
DICK VAN DYKE

I've always thought if I could pick my interviewer, it'd be Charlie Rose, who I think is the...
DICK VAN DYKE

My life has been a magnificent indulgence.
DICK VAN DYKE

I love musicals, but I find it's just so deadening. You know, 30 takes, you do a little piece he...
DICK VAN DYKE

The first time I met Mary Tyler Moore, I thought she was just beautiful, but I thought she was a lit...
DICK VAN DYKE

I get little kids who recognize me from 'Mary Poppins,' and it just delights me because it&#...
DICK VAN DYKE

'Mary Poppins' was one of the best experiences of my life.
DICK VAN DYKE

Time is
Too Slow for those who Wait,
Too Swift for those who Fear,
Too Long for th...
HENRY VAN DYKE

Today, if you're not an alcoholic, you're nobody.
DICK VAN DYKE

I learned everything that I know about comedy and about show business and a lot about life from Carl...
DICK VAN DYKE

I love to harmonize.
DICK VAN DYKE

Here's the truth. Your teens and twenties are your Plan A. At 50, you're assessing whether P...
DICK VAN DYKE

Oh, London is a man's town, there's power in the air;
And Paris is a woman's town, with flowers...
HENRY VAN DYKE

Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why
HENRY VAN DYKE

There are two good rules which ought to be written on every heart - never to believe anything bad ab...
HENRY VAN DYKE

What we do belongs to what we are; and what we are is what becomes of us
HENRY VAN DYKE

It is with rivers as it is with people: the greatest are not always the most agreeable nor the best ...
HENRY VAN DYKE

But I wish they would make a musical of some kind. I miss musicals so much. You don't see them a...
DICK VAN DYKE

Gratitude is a twofold love / love coming to visit us, and love running out to greet a welcome guest...
HENRY VAN DYKE

Bob Hope, like Mark Twain, had a sense of humor that was uniquely American, and like Twain, we'll li...
DICK VAN DYKE

Genius is talent set on fire by courage
HENRY VAN DYKE

Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are
HENRY VAN DYKE

When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for t...
HENRY VAN DYKE

Many a treasure besides Ali Baba's is unlocked with a verbal key
HENRY VAN DYKE

Love is the best thing in the world, and the thing that lives the longest
HENRY VAN DYKE

Are you willing to believe that love is the strongest thing in the world - stronger than hate, stron...
HENRY VAN DYKE

Use the talents you possess, for the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except the best.
HENRY VAN DYKE

I've won several Emmys, a Tony and a Grammy, so maybe somebody will let me have an Oscar, and th...
DICK VAN DYKE

We had all week to rehearse. An audience would come in at the end of the week and we'd our littl...
DICK VAN DYKE

I like 'The Office.' I particularly like the British version with Ricky Gervais. Of course, ...
DICK VAN DYKE

Books are where words live. I read to discover if anybody’s home.
TOM VAN DYKE

Oh, London is a man's town, there's power in the air;
And Paris is a woman's town, with flowers...
HENRY VAN DYKE

So at 16 I got a job at the local radio station. And I was working after school and weekends. I did ...
DICK VAN DYKE

Put me on solid ground and I'll start tapping! At my age they say to keep moving.
DICK VAN DYKE

My son Barry, of course, has been on from the beginning. And his son Shane is playing now a med stud...
DICK VAN DYKE

Who seeks for heaven alone to save his soul,
May keep the path, but will not reach the goal; HENRY VAN DYKE

But this I know. Those who seek Him will do well to look among the poor and the lowly, the sorrowful...
HENRY VAN DYKE

Son of Krypton!
KIRSTIN VAN DYKE

Jon Stewart kills me. I love him. And Bill Maher. He does an hour on HBO. But entirely political. It...
DICK VAN DYKE

Oh, leave the gay and festive scenes, The halls of dazzling light.
HENRY JACKSON VAN DYKE

Heaven is blessed with perfect rest but the blessing of earth is toil.
HENRY JACKSON VAN DYKE

The lintel low enough to keep out pomp and pride; The threshold high enough to turn deceit aside; ...
HENRY JACKSON VAN DYKE

Time is Too Slow for those who Wait, Too Swift for those who Fear, Too Long for those wh...
HENRY JACKSON VAN DYKE

Being a consultant is like flying first-class. The food is terrific, the drinks are cold. But all yo...
GREG BRENNEMAN

I live in a beautiful village in the middle of the countryside, and being able to disappear off on m...
GREG RUTHERFORD

There is no standing still because time is moving forward.
GREG LAKE

I do think that you can dress yourself out of a problem. The way that a haircut and a new pair of pa...
GREG BEHRENDT

Don't forget, you are the hero of your own story.
GREG BOYLE

If you ain't got your black hat, there ain't no use in filling out an application.
GREG MOORE

I still think the best metal bands have a blues feel. The first Black Sabbath album is kind of a blu...
GREG GINN

I am pleased I went from fourth back into a medal position, but bronze is not good enough for me.
GREG RUTHERFORD

Unity! Duty! And destiny!
GREG FARSHTEY

During your career, you put yourself in peak physical condition, but then you bear the brunt of it f...
GREG RUTHERFORD

There was a brief moment, after Haiti's 2010 earthquake, when even Bill Clinton recognized what ...
GREG GRANDIN

2017 may have been that year when identity politics hit a brick wall - and slumped limply on the pav...
GREG GUTFELD

Obviously it's my second senior event, and I'm tired obviously coming back from the British ...
GREG NORMAN

Dreaming is wonderful, goal setting is crucial, but action is supreme. To make something great happe...
GREG WERNER

As the GAO report recognizes, the long-term health of our forests relies on additional fuel reductio...
GREG WALDEN

Since first hearing the story as a child, any mention of the 'Boston Tea Party' has elicited...
GREG FITZSIMMONS

All the sudden, I was part of the 'No Man's Land' thing, and there was a bundle of core ...
GREG RUCKA

Widespread caffeine use explains a lot about the twentieth century.
GREG EGAN

The Games are just a nice, positive way to build friendships, camaraderie and, of course, self-estee...
GREG LOUGANIS

Flying through a hurricane is the most fearsome shaking you will ever get. Everything has to be tied...
GREG MACGILLIVRAY

Burger King's business model was broken. But it was like sex in the '50s. Everyone knew it, ...
GREG BRENNEMAN

As first lady, Hillary Clinton spent the early months of her husband's administration drafting h...
GREG GRANDIN

I got more out of the farm than Harvard Business School.
GREG BRENNEMAN

Most songwriters who have been lucky enough to have their song on the radio or be heard widely don&#...
GREG GRAFFIN

Continuous excellent effort, not maximum strength or superior IQ, is thekey to unlocking your potent...
GREG WERNER

It took us two years to get our first real gig. That was a big dream. We ended up booking a lot of o...
GREG GINN

I've learned at the book signings that everyone has obstacles.
GREG LOUGANIS

Without U.S. input, the countries of South America joined forces in 2008 to shut down a coup attempt...
GREG GRANDIN

There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.
GREG LEMOND

When I was a young teenager, it was all about The Clash for me and that sort of English punk stuff. ...
GREG KURSTIN

The good and bad thing about online trolling: it's not on the street, and it's not on the st...
GREG GUTFELD

The modern progressive movement believes that dissenting language is objectionable, which then remov...
GREG GUTFELD

It took a couple races, but for the most part, this Pontiac GTO has been something special, ... This...
GREG ANDERSON

If the fans aren't enjoying this points race this year they're not paying attention. This is like a ...
GREG ANDERSON

Commodities currencies including the Canadian dollar are doing very well today as gold and oil price...
GREG ANDERSON

After about 35 laps, the tires and brakes started to go. We're lucky we lasted as long as we did.
GREG ANDERSON

When it's all said and done, this year may be even more gratifying than last year,
GREG ANDERSON

I haven't even rode that great this year. But I've been solid. I've stuck in the 40s and 50s in the ...
GREG ANDERSON

They were selling as soon as they hit the ground.
GREG ANDERSON

Changing our diet is something we choose to do, not something we are forced to do. Instead of dreadi...
GREG ANDERSON

The road to your championship will not be a smooth, wide and easily traveled freeway. No, great acco...
GREG WERNER

Happiness isn't a static thing; it's the quest for happiness that allows us to think we're happy, wh...
GREG WEBSTER

It's all about having a product that you're proud of and coming to work every day. Those bas...
GREG BRENNEMAN

Some read biographies of famous Christians to try to short-cut themselves into a deeper walk with th...
GREG GORDON

One did not need to believe in the Force to know right from wrong. Many who held no faith in the For...
GREG RUCKA

You start to feel panic, because you realise that human beings are possessed by the idea that they m...
GREG BAXTER

Busy' is another word for 'asshole'. 'Asshole' is another word for the guy you're dating.
GREG BEHRENDT

You picked a lemon, throw it away lemonade is overrated. Freaks should remain at the circus, not in ...
GREG BEHRENDT

Let’s start with this statistic: You are delicious. Be brave, my sweet. I know you can get lonely....
GREG BEHRENDT

Here's something else to think about: calling when you say you're going to is the very first brick i...
GREG BEHRENDT

I'm about to make a wild, extreme and severe relationship rule: the word busy is a load of crap and ...
GREG BEHRENDT

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