British Television

Famous quotes containing the words british and/or television:

    “Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over—except when they are different.”
    —Nancy Banks-Smith, British columnist. Quoted in Guardian (London, July 21, 1988)

    “It is marvelous indeed to watch on television the rings of Saturn close; and to speculate on what we may yet find at galaxy’s edge. But in the process, we have lost the human element; not to mention the high hope of those quaint days when flight would create “one world.” Instead of one world, we have “star wars,” and a future in which dumb dented human toys will drift mindlessly about the cosmos long after our small planet’s dead.”
    —Gore Vidal (b. 1925)