Programme Quotes 

The urban renewal programme is one of the most spectacular urban programmes to have been undertaken in Paris; it is certainly the one which has provoked the biggest public outcry. The renewal programme in the strict sense of the term, has two essential characteristics: 1) It concerns an already structured social space, of which it changes the form, the social content and/or function. 2) It is based on public initiative, whatever the legal or financial form of the renewal agency, where private enterprise may take over the work, as in the case of Opératioll Italie.
Manuel Castells
Share

More Programme Quotes 

And the Lord Rupert looked at his work, and even he saw that it was a load of crap, but this was the enterprise culture and it sold millions so it was good. And on the same basis he decided to take over the television too, and the earth itself wept, and little robins vomited, and cuddly furry animals threw themselves under trains, and the whole thing was filmed by Sky Channel for a horror nature programme, and the most awful thing of all was that this was just the beginning.

attila the stockbroker

— "The Bible according to Rupert Murdoch", from . Retrieved 2007-03-26.

Tags: Lord, Rupert, looked, work, saw, load, crap, enterprise, culture

Share
twitter

I remember, when I was a child, being taken to the celebrated Barnum's circus, which contained an exhibition of freaks and monstrosities, but the exhibit on the programme which I most desired to see was the one described as'The Boneless Wonder'. My parents judged that the spectacle would be too revolting and demoralizing for my youthful eyes, and I have waited 50 years to see the boneless wonder sitting on theTreasury Bench.

Lord Randolph Henry Spencer Churchill

— 1931  Alluding to Ramsay MacDonald. Speech in the House of Commons, 28  Jan.

Tags: remember, when, child, taken, celebrated, Barnum's, circus, contained, exhibition

Share
twitter

We should seek byall means in our power to avoid war, by analysing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will. I cannot believe that such a programme would be rejected by the people of this country, even if it does mean the establishment of personal contact with the dictators.

(Arthur) Neville Chamberlain

— 1938  Speech in the House of Commons, 6 Oct.

Tags: We, seek, byall, means, our, power, avoid, war, analysing

Share
twitter

The Labour Party's election programme?is the most fantastic and impracticable programme ever put before the electors. This is not socialism. It is bolshevism run mad.


— 1931  Radio broadcast,17 Oct.

Tags: Labour, Party's, election, most, fantastic, impracticable, before, socialism, bolshevism

Share
twitter

In this war, we demand nothing that is peculiar to ourselves; only thatthe world be made fit and safeto live in.The programme oftheworld'speace, therefore, is our programme.


— 1918  The'Fourteen Points'speech to Congress, 8 Jan.

Tags: war, we, demand, nothing, peculiar, ourselves, thatthe, world, fit

Share
twitter

The 1973 Labour Conference will have before it the most radical programme the Party has prepared since 1945.

tony benn

— As quoted in The Times (1 October 1973)

Tags: Labour, Conference, before, most, radical, Party, prepared

Share
twitter

Hello, I'm Charlie Brooker and you're watching Screenwipe, a programme all about television.

charlie brooker

— Introductory message on every episode of Screenwipe, usually said in an odd way (for example, with Brooker slapping himself as he says it).

Tags: Hello, Charlie, watching, television

Share
twitter

MGM never really gave me a break. They loaned me out for leading roles, but cast me in programme pictures.

laraine day

— The Independent, Obituaries, Laraine Day, November 13, 2007

Tags: MGM, never, me, break, loaned, leading, roles, cast, pictures

Share
twitter

I saw the 'Popstars' programme and to me it looked more like 'Opportunity Knocks' than the kind of cutting-edge postmoderism that The Guardian would like to have us believe it was. I think what it's more about is the public and the music industry's bloodlust. It's just like someone itching to say 'Oh, confound it all, let's bring back hanging, that was good entertainment'.

luke haines

— [3]

Tags: saw, me, looked, more, kind, cuttingedge, Guardian, us, believe

Share
twitter

We will have to embark on a change so radical, a revolution so quiet and yet so total, that it will go far beyond the programme for a parliament.

edward heath

— October 1970 speech to the Conservative Party conference.

Tags: We, embark, change, radical, revolution, quiet, yet, total, far

Share
twitter

Remember, PM is not here to give financial advice. Your interest in the programme may go down as well as up.

eddie mair

— Mair (2003) cited in: Eddie Mair in: The Daily Grind Jonathan. Sanderson’s weblog, May 23, 2003.
— Quote while concluding a slightly incomprehensible interview on financial affairs with the PM.

Tags: Remember, PM, here, give, financial, advice, interest, may, down

Share
twitter

"How can a governing party propose to its people a referendum that won't be binding? Is that a serious political programme? No it is not. It's the final option that will end up with upset, at a dead end, reflecting the last 4 years of the Ibarretxe Plan"

josé luis rodríguez zapatero

— Note: April 2005, regarding Juan José Ibarretxe's plan to propose a referendum regarding whether to approve his plan to reform the aunomomy of the Basque Country.
— Source: El Correo, Saturday 9th April 2005, p. 23

Tags: can, governing, party, propose, people, referendum, binding, serious, political

Share
twitter

Personally I would like to have pupils, a studio, pass on my love to them, work with them, without teaching them anything.. ..A convent, a monastery, a phalanstery of painting where one could train together.. ..but no programme, no instruction in painting.. ..drawing is still alright, it doesn’t count, but painting – the way to learn is to look at the masters, above all at nature, and to watch other people painting..

paul cézanne

— p. 124 (Joachim Gasquet’s Cézanne, - a Memoir with Conversations)

Tags: Personally, pupils, studio, pass, love, work, without, teaching, anything

Share
twitter

The fact that a Jewish state needs to exist at all - and it does need to exist - is an indictment of all humanity, and especially the Catholic Church, whose centuries-long programme of aggressive Jew hatred has been ingrained right into the European psyche so that it takes almost nothing to bring it out.

pat condell

— YouTube video (May 26, 2011; from YouTube)

Tags: fact, Jewish, state, needs, exist, need, indictment, humanity, Catholic

Share
twitter

Second, and far more serious, are particular examples of a sophistry and sleight of hand in the misuse of metaphor, and more importantly a distortion of metaphysics in support of an evolutionary programme.

simon conway morris

— p.314 (Life's Solution (2003))

Tags: Second, far, more, serious, examples, sophistry, sleight, hand, misuse

Share
twitter

Peaceful surrender of power by the bourgeoisie is possible, if it is convinced that resistance is hopeless and if it prefers to save its skin. It is much more likely, of course, that even in small states socialism will not be achieved without civil war, and for that reason the only programme of international Social-Democracy must be recognition of civil war, though violence is, of course, alien to our ideals.


— "A Caricature of Marxism and Imperialist Economism" (August - October 1916) Collected Works, Vol. 23, pp. 28-76 [1]

Tags: Peaceful, surrender, power, bourgeoisie, possible, convinced, resistance, hopeless, prefers

Share
twitter

Our business is to help get everything possible done to make sure the "last" chance for a peaceful development of the revolution, to help by the presentation of our programme, by making clear its national character, its absolute accord with the interests and demands of a vast majority of the population.


— "The Tasks of the Revolution" (9 October 1917); Collected Works, Vol. 26, 1972, pp. 59 - 68

Tags: Our, business, help, everything, possible, done, last, chance, peaceful

Share
twitter

Complete equality of rights for all nations; the right of nations to self-determination; the unity of the workers of all nations such is the national programme that Marxism, the experience of the whole world, and the experience of Russia, teach the workers.


— Collected Works, Vol. 20, pp. 393–454

Tags: Complete, equality, rights, nations, right, selfdetermination, unity, workers, national

Share
twitter

The programme of the British Labour Party under Neil Kinnock is so wildly irresponsible, so separate and apart from the historic NATO strategy, that I think a Labour government that stood by its present policies and I rather doubt that they would would, if it didn't destroy the Alliance, at least diminish its effective ability to do the task for which it was created.

richard perle

— The Times (25 September, 1986).

Tags: British, Labour, Party, under, Neil, Kinnock, wildly, irresponsible, separate

Share
twitter

In the course of a mere eighteen months, crowded with cares and problems, he laid down a coherent programme of legal enactments, maintained an orderly society, and actively promoted the well-being of his subjects. A comparable period in the reigns of his predecessor and of his successor shows no such accomplishment.

richard iii of england

— Paul Murray Kendall (1973), Richard III, page 319

Tags: course, eighteen, months, crowded, problems, laid, down, coherent, legal

Share
twitter

I hope you have read the election programme of the Labour Party...this is not socialism. It is Bolshevism run mad.

snowden, philip, 1st viscount snowden

— BBC radio broadcast (17 October, 1931).

Tags: hope, you, read, election, Labour, socialism, Bolshevism, run, mad

Share
twitter

My programme, The Art of Creative Expression, empowers young people with tools to express themselves. We teach photography, art and drama, but it's not just the medium that's important, it's about what you are trying to say.

dawud wharnsby

— As quoted in "Global citizen", interview in Scouts (July/August 2010), p. 41

Tags: Art, Creative, Expression, young, people, tools, express, themselves, We

Share
twitter

A ten per cent reduction in military expenditures per year would be reasonable, coupled with a programme of retraining the workforce and redirecting the resources in a manner that creates employment and advances social welfare. I also encourage all States to contribute to the UN’s annual Report on Military Expenditures by submitting complete data on national defence budgets.

alfred de zayas

— United Nations expert urges states to cut military spending and invest more in human development [69]

Tags: ten, cent, reduction, military, expenditures, year, reasonable, coupled, retraining

Share
twitter

Had he come we would have been really happy. This decision is taken because of [India's] internal political reasons, but it will not affect the success of this programme, we don't think it is a problem.


— Sri Lankan Foreign Minister, GL Pieris, told the BBC on Sunday that Mr Singh's decision was "not a defeat for us", quoted on BBC News, "India PM to boycott Sri Lanka Commonwealth summit", November 10, 2013.

Tags: we, been, happy, decision, taken, India's, internal, political, reasons

Share
twitter

A ten per cent reduction in military expenditures per year would be reasonable, coupled with a programme of retraining the workforce and redirecting the resources in a manner that creates employment and advances social welfare. I also encourage all States to contribute to the UN’s annual Report on Military Expenditures by submitting complete data on national defence budgets.


— United Nations expert urges states to cut military spending and invest more in human development [69]

Tags: ten, cent, reduction, military, expenditures, year, reasonable, coupled, retraining

Share
twitter

Looking back the great American ‘stabilisation’ [and boom] of 1922-1929 was really a vast attempt to destabilise the value of money in terms of human effort by means of a colossal programme of investment [driven by too easy credit]... which succeeded for a surprisingly long period, but which no human ingenuity could have managed to direct indefinitely on sound and balanced lines. [and therefore it ended dramatically in the huge 1929 stock market crash followed by the Great Depression].


— Dennis Holme Robertson in "How Do We Want Gold to Behave?." The International Gold Problem, Humphrey Milford (1932): As cited in imagi-natives.com; Also cited in: Murray N. Rothbard (2013) America's Great Depression (LFB) p. 1921.

Tags: Looking, great, American, stabilisation, boom, vast, attempt, destabilise, value

Share
twitter

Jack Horkheimer, presenter of the popular astrononomy programme Star Gazer


— "Keep Looking Up was my life's admonition. I can do little else in my present position." [2]

Tags: Jack, Horkheimer, presenter, popular, Star

Share
twitter

Renouveler les choses connues, vulgariser les choses neuves: un bon programme pour un critique.

charles augustin sainte-beuve

— To lend freshness to things known, to spread knowledge of things new; an excellent program for a critic.
Causeries du lundi, vol. 11 (1856; Paris: Garnier, 1868) p. 512; Philo M. Buck, Jr. Literary Criticism (New York: Harper, 1930) p. 398

Tags: choses, connues, neuves, bon, pour, critique

Share
twitter

"I've got two shirts still missing from the Bahamas. I'm sure they are part of a youth camping programme somewhere in Tanzania by now."

david lange

— Source: Herald on Sunday, 7/8/05.

Tags: two, shirts, missing, youth, camping, somewhere, Tanzania, now

Share
twitter
  • 1
  • 2
  • »
  • Dictionary
  • Thesaurus
  • Examples
    • See in a sentence
    • Example articles
  • Quotes
    • Famous Quotes
    • Quote Articles
  • Spanish
    • Spanish-English Translation
    • Reference
  • Reference
    • Education
    • ESL
    • Grammar
    • Abbreviations
    • Biography
    • Books & Literature
    • Examples
    • Foreign Languages
    • Resources
    • Slideshows
  • Word Finder
    • Word Finder
    • 4 Pics 1 Word Answers
    • Anagram Solver
    • Unscramble
    • Word Cookies Cheat
    • Word Game Dictionary
    • Word Unscrambler
    • Words With Friends Cheat
Share
  • Dictionary
  • Thesaurus
  • Examples
    • See in a sentence
    • Example articles
  • Quotes
    • Famous Quotes
    • Quote Articles
  • Spanish
    • Spanish-English Translation
    • Reference
  • Reference
    • Education
    • ESL
    • Grammar
    • Abbreviations
    • Biography
    • Books & Literature
    • Examples
    • Foreign Languages
    • Resources
    • Slideshows
  • Word Finder
    • Word Finder
    • 4 Pics 1 Word Answers
    • Anagram Solver
    • Unscramble
    • Word Cookies Cheat
    • Word Game Dictionary
    • Word Unscrambler
    • Words With Friends Cheat
Share
  • Home
  • Quotes
  • programme quotes
Word Finder Scrabble® points: 16 More on Word Finder →

Follow YourDictionary

Get our free Amazon Alexa Skills!

Join YourDictionary today

By continuing, you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.

Please set a username for yourself.
People will see it as Author Name with your public flash cards.