Quotes and Sayings about Spelling
"Being a working actor, you're going to do a Spelling show. It's hard not to."
- Casper Van Dien
(Related: Actor, Being, Spelling)
"Aaron Spelling went further than anyone has ever gone for television."
- Linda Evans
(Related: Spelling, Television)
"I got a series with the WB next year. We start shooting in July. It's going to be called Safe Harbor, and it's an hour show. It's a Spelling show and will follow 7th Heaven."
- Gregory Harrison
(Related: Heaven, July, Spelling, Will)
"Truth is the torch that gleams through the fog without dispelling it."
- Claude Adrien Helvetius
(Related: Truth)
"But no, I don't generally have trouble with spelling mistakes."
- Bill Joy
(Related: Mistakes, Spelling, Trouble)
"The piano is the X factor. People have a tough time following the structures when there's no piano there, spelling it out. It makes it more easily understood, particularly to people who don't know as much about music."
- Branford Marsalis
(Related: Music, Time, People, Spelling)
"Spelling is very easy to practice yourself whereas signing is not. So I would sit on the subway riding around New York and I would spell whatever I would see. When I watched a movie I would spell words as they came up."
- Richard Masur
(Related: Practice, Spelling, Words)
"My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places."
- A. A. Milne
(Related: Letters, Spelling, Wrong)
"I think a badly crafted, great idea for a new film with a ton of spelling mistakes is just 100 times better than a well-crafted stale script."
- Alexander Payne
(Related: Idea, Film, Mistakes, Spelling)
"When our spelling is perfect, it's invisible. But when it's flawed, it prompts strong negative associations."
- Marilyn vos Savant
(Related: Negative, Spelling)
"I love the feeling of creating pictures in someone's mind just by spelling out the right lyrical combination."
- Billy Sherwood
(Related: Love, Feeling, Mind, Right, Spelling)
"Nowadays, people always say, how come he's doing such young shows? But they never mention The Mod Squad. I was very proud of that show. It's the first time an African-American guy kissed a white girl."
- Aaron Spelling
(Related: Time, People, African, First)
"You know what shows today are missing? Stars."
- Aaron Spelling
(Related: Stars, Today)
"You can't predict a show, that is the damndest thing, you can't predict if a show is going to work or not until it's on the air."
- Aaron Spelling
(Related: Work)
"When we did Dynasty, it was the clothes. I think the clothes affected every woman around the world. I got so many letters, I think we made the designer a millionaire!"
- Aaron Spelling
(Related: Clothes, Letters, Woman, World)
"We do 32 episodes a season and will have shot 267 episodes by the end of the ninth season... It's impossible to sell that many episodes in the foreign market."
- Aaron Spelling
(Related: End, Will)
"There are a couple of things that I'm sure people don't think are important, but I do. I don't like hair changes unless there's a reason for it. Clothing - I don't like to see an outfit worn more than one time in an hour - you can wear it again a few weeks later."
- Aaron Spelling
(Related: Time, People, Hair, Reason)
"One thing my wife says is bad about me, is that I still care too much."
- Aaron Spelling
(Related: Wife, Care)
"Now I've even gotten to running out to the fan buses that pass by our house, so I can talk to the people. I think I'm trying to gather fans, frankly. They're very, very nice people - they really understand. It's fun talking to them."
- Aaron Spelling
(Related: People, Fans, Fun, Now, Running, Talk, Talking, Trying)
"It's OK to do cute little things like kissing a turtle, but you can't kiss another person because he's a different color? Give me a break. And you have to remember, I'm from Dallas, Texas."
- Aaron Spelling
(Related: Kiss, Cute, Kissing)
"I'll tell you what I miss most. What I would love to do, more than anything, is just anthologies. With an anthology you can tell any story and be in every division of television. We don't have any anthologies anymore, do we?"
- Aaron Spelling
(Related: Love, Television)
"I think there are two ways to depict a family. One is what it's really like, and one is what the audience would like it to be. Between you and me, I think the second one is what I would prefer."
- Aaron Spelling
(Related: Family)
"Right now I'm doing four shows at a time, trying to read four outlines every week, four scripts every week, and watching four rough cuts; it's a lot of good work. It's fun to do it, but it does wear you out."
- Aaron Spelling
(Related: Time, Work, Fun, Now, Right, Trying)
"I must tell you, I haven't done the drug problem that is faced by cops and people on the border. It's a hard show to do, but I think it's going to say a lot about drugs and the problems related to them. I just hope people can watch it, it's a pretty strong show."
- Aaron Spelling
(Related: People, Hope, Drugs, Pretty, Problems)
"I love my wife, she deserves anything and everything."
- Aaron Spelling
(Related: Love, Wife)
"I don't remember a drama on TV that had shown a couple could be married but still love each other very much, spend every day as if they were still on their honeymoon, be sensuous, and have fun together."
- Aaron Spelling
(Related: Love, Day, Drama, Fun)
"But, I don't know, the violence, I can't even talk about. We don't do a lot of violent shows. When I started in television, breaking a pencil was a violent act."
- Aaron Spelling
(Related: Act, Talk, Television, Violence)
"But it's true, when you see some television, you carry it with you. It's like 90210. Tell me what young shows were being done then... We were thrilled about the ratings around the world."
- Aaron Spelling
(Related: Being, Television, World)
"A show that no one thought had a chance has just finished its fifth year: Charmed. I think it's tougher for the younger networks, so I think they have a little more patience for the sake of the show. But who knows?"
- Aaron Spelling
(Related: Thought, Chance, Patience)
"It's been a straight strip, I must tell you, I've enjoyed it all the way. If I'm saying things to make it sound like it's hard, hard work, it's not. It's beautiful work. It's fun work. It's everything you'd ever want to do."
- Aaron Spelling
(Related: Work, Fun, Hard work, Saying, Sound, Want)
"I do have odd habits. I check under my bed every night for the bogeyman. That's just a little thing, though."
- Tori Spelling
(Related: Bed, Habits, Night)
"I look at Liv Tyler and think 'It's not fair', because I can't find a flaw on her. And on top of that she seems nice, so it's really not fair."
- Tori Spelling
"Sometimes, when I'm alone, I put on six inch heels and wear nothing else and dance around in front of the mirror and do my little stripper dance."
- Tori Spelling
(Related: Dance, Nothing)
"In Connecticut, my understanding, although I haven't seen the actual litigation, is that they want to measure every other year and not provide annual assessment as is required in the statute."
- Margaret Spellings
(Related: Measure, Understanding, Want)
"Again, the truth of the matter is we haven't paid that much attention to high school accountability."
- Margaret Spellings
(Related: Truth, Attention, School)
"What we know is the workplace is more demanding than ever before."
- Margaret Spellings
"Well, one of them is annual assessment in grades 3-8. It's integral to the implementation of everything."
- Margaret Spellings
"We want to obviously foster a relationship that we're a partner with states; that we all share the same goals of closing the achievement gap, just as the Congress does; and that we're practical and sophisticated enough to understand what they're talking about."
- Margaret Spellings
(Related: Achievement, Goals, Congress, states, Talking, Want)
"We know that if we're going to remain economically competitive in the world, and viable as a civic democracy, that we're going to have to get more people educated to higher levels."
- Margaret Spellings
(Related: People, Democracy, World)
"We at the Department of Education are going to provide technical assistance; I've committed $14 million to show states how they might meet this more sophisticated approach."
- Margaret Spellings
(Related: Education, states)
"There's lots of institutions and lots of different cultures, and so that's the kind of thing that parents need to be able to evaluate, and students themselves, when they make a selection."
- Margaret Spellings
(Related: Evaluate, Parents, Students)
"The long and short of it is, we need more rigor in all kinds of programs."
- Margaret Spellings
"My understanding is that Kansas, Massachusetts, they've been more pioneers on the special education side."
- Margaret Spellings
(Related: Education, Understanding)
"It's a hard process to navigate... to figure out where your kid ought to go to college."
- Margaret Spellings
(Related: College)
"And I think that's righteous, I think that's what parents want to know. They want to know what's going right in the school, and what needs improvement, and that's what this law does."
- Margaret Spellings
(Related: Improvement, Law, Needs, Parents, Right, School, Want)
"And I think that we in America need to understand that many schools need improvement, and particularly with respect to how they're serving minority children."
- Margaret Spellings
(Related: America, Children, Improvement, Minority, Respect, Schools)
"I think it'd be useful for parents to know kind of what is the culture of an institution."
- Margaret Spellings
(Related: Culture, Parents)
"And I believe that public broadcasting has an important trust with the American people, it's an intimate medium of television, and that we can do reading and language development for young children without getting into human sexuality."
- Margaret Spellings
(Related: Trust, People, Development, American, Children, Language, Public, Reading, Sexuality, Television)
"But the other notion is, we also believe that those folks closest on the ground that we're holding accountable for the results can decide, and ought to evaluate which programs get results."
- Margaret Spellings
(Related: Evaluate, Results)
"For too long, actually, we have either said you're this or that."
- Margaret Spellings
"Higher education is confronting challenges, like the economy is, about the need for a higher number of more adequately trained, more highly educated citizenry."
- Margaret Spellings
(Related: Education, Economy)
"I do think we know that a teacher who knows what he or she is doing, knows their subject matter, and knows how to impart knowledge to kids is a critical piece of closing the achievement gap."
- Margaret Spellings
(Related: Knowledge, Achievement, Kids)
"I mean, one thing I know about change is we are not going to close the achievement gap without educators."
- Margaret Spellings
(Related: Change, Achievement)
"I think all kinds of parents are different in what they're seeking."
- Margaret Spellings
(Related: Parents)
"I hate it when people talk about Buffy as being campy... I hate camp, I don't enjoy dumb TV. I believe Aaron Spelling has single-handedly lowered SAT scores."
- Joss Whedon
(Related: People, Being, Dumb, Hate, Spelling, Talk)
"As a kid I quite fancied the romantic, Bohemian idea of being an artist. I expect I thought I could escape from the difficulties of maths and spelling. Maybe I thought I would avoid the judgement of the establishment."
- Peter Wright
(Related: Thought, Idea, Artist, Being, Difficulties, Romantic, Spelling)