Top 254 Programmes Quotes & Sayings

In degenerating programmes, however, theories are fabricated only in order to accommodate known facts

I've always have loved reality programmes. 'Big Brother,' 'I'm A Celebrity,' they're my guilty pleasure.

I love cookery programmes.

Nah, I don't watch TV either, apart from a few sports programmes. I just don't have the time.

I shall continue to invent new anti-slavery programmes around the world.

I see my work plagiarized in gardening programmes and decorating programmes and car adverts, and I suppose I have to accept that's just the way art gets assimilated into culture.

We have to diversify our economy. We have to create jobs. We have to focus on education, more training programmes.

When we look at the full-on mass surveillance watching everyone in the country, in the United States, it doesn't work. It didn't stop the attacks in Boston. The marathon bombings. Where again, we knew who these individuals were. It didn't stop the Underwear Bomber, whose father walked into an embassy and warned us about this individual before he walked onto an airplane. And it's not going to stop the next attacks either. Because again, they're not public safety programmes. They're spying programmes. They are valuable for spying.

I was broadcast-struck from an early age; I had saved up for a tape recorder and started making programmes.

When I was the NIH director, I often expressed envy of institute directors: they had the money and ran the scientific programmes.

The exceptional feature of education programmes in Punjab is that students of all federating units have their due share in them.

RTE was set up by legislation as an instrument of public policy, and, as such is responsible to the government. The government have overall responsibility for its conduct, and especially the obligation to ensure that its programmes do not offend against the public interest or conflict with national policy as defined in legislation. To this extent the government rejected the view that RTE should be, either generally or in regard to its current affairs programmes, completely independent of government supervision.

Building the machine for 'Speed' was fun, as was working on the 'Spitfire' programme. They are programmes I enjoyed being on, but they are not my job.

Colleges would compete by adding professors, enhancing programmes or building nicer facilities. So they competed by making institutions better.

I'm not certain that the BBC can claim to be making a wide enough range of distinctive programmes to make the case convincingly.

My mum has recorded all my programmes and not watched one. My dad says he finds it embarrassing.

I do feel that over the years from watching programmes that tell people 'you're not good enough,' I just don't like it.

Occasionally, there are programmes - like 'The Office' or 'Gavin and Stacey,' perhaps - where you get the feeling everybody's seen it.

You can only get really unpopular decisions through if the electorate is convinced of the value of the environment. That's what natural history programmes should be for.

Strictly is the master of all dance programmes. It's so big!

The foundations of a strong economy don't rest alone on the decisions of Chancellors or the spending programmes of government.

To lead a country, you must periodically hold a national consultation in which people representing different programmes can make a bid for power.

I think when YouTube first came out, everyone was thinking people were just going to watch five-minute shows from now on and that people didn't have the patience anymore to watch longer programmes. But instead, everyone is binge watching and consuming ten-hour programmes and box sets of shows, so it is really interesting.

We want to reach free energy markets, but with subsidy programmes for those with low income, and not to have the subsidy in the form of lowering the energy prices, but through other programmes.

The relatively unpredictable flow of funds to humanitarian organizations, and the bureaucratic strings often attached to them, can have a highly negative impact on an organization's ability to plan and execute programmes effectively. We need to be able to rely on predictable income flows to plan sustainable programmes.

We need specific work on race equality programmes and programmes targeted at helping those who are yet to fulfil their potential.

All nuclear material in weapons programmes must be subject one day to binding international verification.

As chief minister, I have worked towards implementing programmes strongly.

They're taking away the arts programmes in the schools, and that's a terrible thing.

The civil rights movement is something I've looked into a lot. When I was about 23, I started reading up on it all and watching TV programmes.

There are only a handful of really good TV programmes, and I'm blessed to be in one of them.

Never underestimate the intelligence of the audience; make good programmes, and they will come.

Our new programmes have always just been different vehicles for the same sort of comedy.

I hate Gordon Ramsay's programmes: I don't know if he's been told it makes good television.

When I was a kid, I watched mainly films on TV and pop programmes like 'Top of the Pops.'

That was the trouble with so many reality programmes on television - everyone wanted fame these days without necessarily working at anything to achieve it.

I've chosen not to go to Sky or ITV because the programmes I've made at the BBC, I want to carry on making.

I've been making arts programmes for almost 50 years, and every day, I can't believe my luck.

I won't do 'Strictly' or any of those ghastly reality programmes. 'I'm a Celebrity' would be the end. It makes me shudder.

I am away so much, so I rarely see live TV, but I use iPlayer to catch programmes.

I haven't got tinted windows. I get the odd 'Oi, Ains' and 'What's he like,' or 'I do enjoy your programmes,' depending on where you are. That's quite nice.

I like cookery programmes: Anthony Bourdain going around the world eating stuff; Rick Stein - he's another favourite.

A number of immunisation programmes are funded and announced by the government and international bodies, but little thought goes into the injecting or delivery mechanism.

In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes, I didn't use them as vehicles for my own opinion. They were factual programmes.

I don't like celebrity programmes - but I do like programmes about how ideas are formed and evolve.

We are reviewing our experience to enable us to respond to the cultural challenge: to help countries, communities and individuals interpret universal principles, translate them into culturally sensitive terms and design programmes based on them, programmes that people can really feel are their own.

TV programmes are so bad these days, even idiots are getting rid of their idiot boxes.

Macroeconomic adjustment programmes are tailor-made to the situation of the country concerned and no models or templates are used.

The golden recipe for creating jobs is learning what kinds of people companies need and feeding them with training programmes.

I've always been engaged in social protection programmes.

I don't really watch TV; YouTube is far more entertaining. But I have tuned in to 'X Factor' - I like trash and nature programmes.

I have been in this business for over 30 years. I've seen a lot of development programmes. They don't all run smoothly.

Have I ever presented a programme I don't watch? Well, I've done loads of programmes that no one else watched!

I have been determined for the past couple of years to move away from all those Holiday programmes.

Given the right set of circumstances any one of us could become dangerous - so why not show that in our programmes?

Do we really require so many gardening programmes, makeover programmes or celebrity chefs?

I don't like going on TV programmes.

'Bake Off' is one of my favourite programmes, so I was genuinely a little bit shocked and very excited when I was asked to take part.

I have absolutely no doubt at all that we will find evidence of weapons of mass destruction programmes.

Creative writing programmes are not very necessary. They just exist so that people like us can make a living.