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Quotes About Series

TV is designed to keep characters in place for years on end. The best example is 'M*A*S*H:' You have a three-year police action in Korea, and they stretched that out to eleven seasons. It was a great show, but when you think about it, a weird unreality overtakes a television series. You see the actors age, and yet the characters don't.
~ Vince Gilligan
I am thrilled to participate in the World Boxing Super Series, the Champions League of boxing.
~ Callum Smith
I was thrilled with how the first series of 'Sherlock' was received. It was such great fun to film, which makes it so rewarding when something you enjoy is so well received.
~ Benedict Cumberbatch
I've always wanted to buy a sports car. After the England series, I went up to my dad and said that I wanted to buy a sports car and got his consent. On his birthday, I surprised him by bringing it home. It's a Porsche Boxter Limited Edition, and my family was thrilled to see it.
~ Suresh Raina
I couldn't contain my excitement when I was invited to judge Dance Vs Dance.' I've followed the series closely and am thrilled to be a part of this magnificent show.
~ Shamna Kasim
What is good for you creatively is usually bad commercially. You thrive financially by sticking to a series and not fiddling about too much. You do yourself harm by moving away from the series and the genre. By trying things not based in that particular mode of writing, you will just lose readers.
~ John Connolly
Book four is tentatively titled 'The Skull Throne ,' and book five is 'The Core .' It's kind of hard to talk much about them without giving away things from 'Daylight War,' however.
~ Peter V. Brett
'Game of Thrones' really is an amazing series. Political intrigue, and then they throw in a little magic. I mean, it's got a dragon in it.
~ Rick Harrison
I'm not surprised 'The Avengers' has such enduring popularity, because it was a groundbreaking series that changed television. It was the first show that put its leading man and leading lady on an equal footing and showed a woman fighting and kicking and throwing men around. That was a radical departure in its time.
~ Patrick Macnee
With TV, your structure is determined by the series not the episode. You can have incident without consequence to the character, but keep your eye on the ticking clock of the series.
~ Steven Knight
I always love writing the third book in a series because you get to tie up all the threads that you put out in the first two books. You finally let people know what really happens and reveal all the secrets and bring certain characters together.
~ Trudi Canavan
I was a regular, so that meant I was working every week on the series. Which was fine. 'Family Ties' was a fantastic series. It's all good.
~ Justine Bateman
Sparrow Hill Road' is a stand-alone book that ties into the InCryptid universe, not the launching point for a whole new series.
~ Seanan McGuire
I felt that the Star Wars series became very pretentious as time went on. Just heavy and leaden.
~ John Milius
And the thing is, every time you start a new show or do a new series, you're committing to another six years.
~ David Schwimmer
The Big Bang Theory: When geeky scientists can be main characters in a hit prime time series, you know there's hope for the world.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
But watching Sylvie seemed very much like dreaming, because the motion was always the same, and was necessary, and arduous, and without issue, and repeated, not as one motion in a series, but as the same motion repeated because here was the mystery, if one could find it.
~ Marilynne Robinson
His 1831 wood-block series, "Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji," is the world's most famous work of ukiyo-e, and one of these prints in particular, The Great Wave of Kanagawa, is one of the most famous works of Japanese art.
~ Mark Kurlansky
THE WARDEN This is the first novel in Trollope's popular series known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire. The novel (Trollope's fourth) was first published in 1855 and was reportedly inspired by a walk around Salisbury cathedral.
~ Anthony Trollope
The second set assert that the contrarieties are contained in the one and emerge from it by segregation, (20) for example Anaximander and also all those who assert that 'what is' is one and many, like Empedocles and Anaxagoras; for they too produce other things from their mixture by segregation. These differ, however, from each other in that the former imagines a cycle of such changes, the latter a single series.
~ Aristotle
Each death and departure comes to us as a surprise, a sorrow never anticipated. Life is a long series of farewells; only the circumstances should surprise us.
~ Jessamyn West
In eternityWe live. Come from. Life is one Series of footprints.
~ Shashi, Songs of the Mist
Human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece
~ Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
The manner of writing history is as characteristic of the narrator as the actions are of the persons who are related to have performed them; often much more so. It may be generally defined as a view of one age taken by another; a picture of a series of men and women painted by one of another series.
~ bagehot walter xviii