Direct Broadcast Satellite

Famous quotes containing the words direct, broadcast and/or satellite:

    “The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct proportion to the swiftness of her passing.”
    —Marcel Proust (1871–1922)

    “Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition.”
    —Monty Python’s Flying Circus. first broadcast Sept. 22, 1970. Michael Palin, in Monty Python’s Flying Circus (BBC TV comedy series)

    “Books are the best things, well used; abused, among the worst. What is the right use? What is the one end, which all means go to effect? They are for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book, than to be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)