Television is the triumph of machine over people.

The S.S. Sierra was a ten-thousand-ton vessel. Today, lifeboats bigger than the Sierra are found on the Queen Mary and other luxury liners.

I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap.

My uncle is a Southern planter. He's an undertaker in Alabama.

A committee is a group of people who individually can do nothing, but who, as a group, can meet and decide that nothing can be done.

On ships they call them barnacles; in business they attach themselves to desks and are called vice presidents.

An associate producer is the only guy in Hollywood who will associate with a producer.