85 Cables Quotes
Following is our list of cables quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about cable.
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Famous Cables Quotes
Just as a factory pumping out pollutants degrades that air for everyone, so a TV blasting cable news into an airport lounge degrades the attentional capacities of everyone nearby. — Oliver Burkeman
On cable TV they have a weather channel - 24 hours of weather. We had something like that where I grew up. We called it a window — Dan Spencer
No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread. — Robert Burton
If God's Word is not absolutely and completely true, it is too weak a cable to fix our anchorage and guarantee our eternal peace. — A. B. Simpson
Habits are cobwebs at first; cables at last. — Chinese Proverbs
Each day more coalition MPs in seats outside the South East come out against George Osborne's regional pay cut plans, and Vince Cable now claims they are dead. — Frances O'Grady
Friends aren't jumper cables. You don't throw them into the trunk and pull them out for emergencies. — Charlie Krueger
Habit is a cable; we weave a thread each day, and at last we cannot break it. — Horace Mann
I just think there's more paparazzi, there's more cable TV, there's millions of networks now, there's more paparazzi. People liked gossip then, and they like gossip now. — Debbie Reynolds
Why live outside the US? Do you want health care or safe food products or democracy or something? They're all overrated. Stay for the excellent cable TV. — Ian Mckellen
Short Cables Quotes
- Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it. — Horace Mann
- Habits are first cobwebs, then cables. — Napoleon Hill
- We love our business. We have never been more enthusiastic about cable and its future. — Brian Roberts
- A cobweb is as good as the mightiest cable when there is strain upon it. — Henry Ward Beecher
- The longer you wait, the more the jump rope becomes a big steel cable. — Susan Messing
- You might be a redneck if your coffee table used to be a telephone cable spool. — Jeff Foxworthy
- In ways and thoughts of weakness and of wrong, Threads turn to cords, and cords to cables strong. — Isaac Williams
- On cable TV, they have a weather channel — Dan Spencer
- By diligence and patience, the mouse bit in two the cable. — Benjamin Franklin
- The whole cable-TV original programming just changed the nature of television. — Anson Mount
Cable News Quotes
But by showing us live coverage of every bad thing happening everywhere in the world, cable news makes life seem like it's just an endless string of disasters - when, for most people in most places today, life is fairly good. — Gregg Easterbrook
Our go-to source is no longer dictated by a small group of cable news outlets. We have to expand our view. Sometimes, a story is made and breaks on Twitter. We have to find a way to react to that, to consume and also disseminate the information from Twitter, which is not an easy thing to do. — Trevor Noah
The Fox News cable channel is doing very well because there is a market for what Fox News has to offer. — Paul Weyrich
I worked in cable news for a long time, but I'm not a pundit. I'm just not. I'm grateful to people that are, but I was really miserable trying to do that. I just wanted to be myself. — Meghan McCain
The cable news channels have cleverly seized on the creed of objectivity and redefined it in populist terms. They attack news based on verifiable fact for its liberal bias, for, in essence, failing to be objective, and promise a return to genuine objectivity. — Chris Hedges
I watch sports and cable news. I’m a political junkie, so that’s my interest. — Jerry Springer
I like explaining things, and I believe that you can do very high-level explanation on basic cable news provided you are willing to work hard enough to be a good storyteller. — Rachel Maddow
Sometimes I look around cable news and it's like you wonder whether you're looking at anchors or authors. — Megyn Kelly
The goal of cable news executives is not to make me an informed citizen of Earth. Their mission is to tickle the dark reptilian depths of my brain and hook me so they can then barter with my soul for advertising revenue. — Guy P. Harrison
I don't watch cable news at night. So I can honestly tell you that I am not in a funk, I am not depressed, I'm not suicidal, I'm not thinking it's over. — Rush Limbaugh
Cable Quotes
An image is a bridge between evoked emotion and conscious knowledge; words are the cables that hold up the bridge. Images are more direct, more immediate than words, and closer to the unconscious. Picture language precedes thinking in words; the metaphorical mind precedes analytical consciousness. — Gloria E. Anzaldúa
Back in pre-Revolutionary America cruel and unusual punishment meant the rack and burning at the stake... in more recent rulings it has been taken to mean the absence of cable television and denial of sex-change operations, or just overcrowding in the prisons. — Tom Clancy
This generation is so dead. You ask a kid, 'What are you doing this Saturday?' and they'll be playing video games or watching cable, instead of building model cars or airplanes or doing something creative. Kids today never say, 'Man, I'm really into remote-controlled steamboats.' — Jack White
If there really is a God who created the entire universe with all of its glories, and He decides to deliver a message to humanity, He will not use, as His messenger, a person on cable TV with a bad hairstyle. — Dave Barry
The beginning of a habit is like an invisible thread, but every time we repeat the act we strengthen the strand, add to it another filament, until it becomes a great cable and binds us irrevocably thought and act. — Orison Swett Marden
It's very difficult to break into motion pictures, but it's oddly easier for directors today because of independent films and cable, who have inherited for the most part those films of substance that the studios are reluctant to finance. — Mark Rydell
The perfect date for me would be staying at home, making a big picnic in bed, eating Wotsits and cookies while watching cable TV. — Kim Kardashian
The justices have constitutionally protected obscenity in libraries, filth over cable television, and now unlimited internet pornography. — Phyllis Schlafly
I moved recently and I moved my cable and Internet and phone service which was all provided by Time Warner Cable. And you know, I made a plan with them where they'd come sometime between summer solstice and winter solstice and I would wait. — Eugene Mirman
If we can't have a serious conversation without politicizing it on cable TV and making it a scoring point for one day, we're in trouble. — John F. Kerry
People Writing About Cables
| Name | Quotes | Likes |
|---|---|---|
 Horace Mann |
183 | 1105 |
 Oliver Burkeman |
103 | 67 |
 Robert Burton |
25 | 127 |
 A. B. Simpson |
77 | 1846 |
 Chinese Proverbs |
119 | 7413 |
 Frances O'Grady |
25 | 28 |
More Cables Quotes
You wouldn't think such a place as San Francisco could exist. The wonderful sunlight there, the hills, the great bridges, the Pacific at your shoes. Beautiful Chinatown. Every race in the world. The sardine fleets sailing out. The little cable-cars whizzing down The City hills. And all the people are open and friendly. — Dylan Thomas
Far out in the ocean, where the water is as blue as the prettiest cornflower, and as clear as crystal, it is very, very deep; so deep, indeed, that no cable could fathom it: many church steeples, piled one upon another, would not reach from the ground beneath to the surface of the water above. There dwell the Sea King and his subjects. — Hans Christian Andersen
I think probably one of the coolest things was when I went to play basketball at Rucker Park in Harlem. First of all, who would think that Larry the Cable Guy would go to Harlem to play basketball? And I was received like a rock star. It was amazing! There were people everywhere. There were guys walking by yelling, Git r done! — Larry the Cable Guy
I left my heart in San Francisco, high on a hill, it calls to me. To be where little cable cars climb halfway to the stars, the morning fog may chill the air, I don't care. My love waits there in San Francisco, above the blue and windy sea, when I come home to you, San Francisco , your golden sun will shine for me. — Tony Bennett
I'm doing 5000 seat theaters and audiences are going nuts, it's fantastic and it makes me very happy. I'm dirty, but not like this; I just do comedy that I find funny. I'm working on a new tv show for cable and it's not set up yet. — Bob Saget
It doesn't matter whether it comes in by cable, telephone lines, computor, or satellite. Everyone's going to have to deal with Disney. — Michael Eisner
I had a 2-week courtship with a fellow student in the fiction workshop in Iowa and a 5-minute wedding in a lawyer's office above the coffee shop where we'd been having lunch that day. And so I sent a cable to my father saying, 'By the time you get this, Daddy, I'll already be Mrs. Blaise!' — Bharati Mukherjee
[M]y love for you is deathless, it seems to bind me to you with mighty cables that nothing but Omnipotence could break. — Sullivan Ballou
We try to make the name longer and longer every year. First, it was 'Larry the Cable Guy's Christmas Spectacular.' Then it was 'It's a Very Larry Christmas.' Now it's 'Larry the Cable Guy's Hula-palooza Christmas Luau.' I'll tell you what it is: It's funny. That's what it is. Who cares what the name of it is? It is a funny special. — Sayings
Habits begin as offhanded remarks, ideas and images. And then, layer upon layer, through practice, they grow from cobwebs into cables that shackle or strengthen our lives. — Denis Waitley
Mogami cable is durable and flexible enough to practically build a suspension bridge with but I'll settle for using it for my guitars and amps! — Dave Mustaine
A father and two sons run Adelphia. It's a cable company. And they took from that company a billion dollars. A billion. Three people - three people took a billion dollars. What were they gonna do, start their own space program? 'Let's send the monkey to Mars, Dad!' — Lewis Black
Obviously with the onset of cable and satellite, there are more opportunities for programming and original programming, so it creates more opportunities for actors and producers and directors and everything. — Anthony Michael Hall
And I have been able to give freedom and life which was acknowledged in the ecstasy of walking hand in hand across the most beautiful bridge of the world, the cables enclosing us and pulling us upward in such a dance as I have never walked and never can walk with another. — Hart Crane
The cable operators are paying to show content. The most important content you have is the broadcast stations. They take the position that over the air is free to people, so it should be free to them. — Bill Vaughan
Contrary to popular cable TV-induced opinion, aerobics have nothing to do with squeezing our body into hideous shiny Spandex, grinning like a deranged orangutan, and doing cretinous steps to debauched disco music. — Cynthia Heimel
Because it's uncensored cable, I think we'll be able to do the kind of sketch comedy that really hasn't been seen before. We can actually finish jokes. — Aries Spears
Some people say Larry the Cable Guy's only successful because he's pandering to the lowest common denominator, blatantly and not ironically exploiting people's racist and homophobic tendencies. Don't listen to these people, Larry. They're just bitter and jealous and right. — Greg Giraldo
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