Gilligan's Famous Quotes & Sayings
100 Gilligan's Famous Sayings, Quotes and Quotation.
If you study both 'Gilligan' and 'Brady,' you will see they are based on a similar philosophy: that it's possible for different kinds of people to learn to live together, either in a family or stuck on an island with no escape.— Sherwood Schwartz
The filaments that connect the qualities and dynamics "inside" prisons to those on the "outside" remind those of us on the outside (or, as one former prisoner said to me, "in the outer prison") that, in spite of real differences, in a profound sense "the prisons are us." Even the most brutal among the imprisoned, as James Gilligan argues in his book Violence (where he draws on years of experience as a prison psychologist in a maximum security facility for violent offenders) are people who are confined there often because of their experience of brutality and terror in home and family, these latter embedded often in the structures of violence that are social, political, and economic in nature.— Mark Lewis Taylor
The aikido term ma ai, which means "space harmony" ("ai" is Chinese for "love," and it translates into Japanese as harmonious connection) refers to the optimal distance point, where you're close enough to connect well and far enough to enjoy your own space.— Stephen Gilligan
'Rescue From Gilligan's Island' was the first of the so-called reunion shows on the networks, getting a 54 share. With numbers like that, everybody else started to have reunion shows.— Sherwood Schwartz
One reason I relate to 'Veronica Mars' fans is because I can totally geek out about shows. I mean, I write Vince Gilligan fan mail every year.— Rob Thomas
I looked around the tiny bathroom, at the three of us crammed in. A billionaire, a movie star, and a small town girl. It was some sick lesbian twist on Gilligan's Island. I would have laughed but none of it was funny.— Giselle Fox
Basic services such as electricity have never been worse and the economy of Arab Iraq is in ruins.— Andrew Gilligan
The thing that intrigued me about 'Breaking Bad' from day one was the idea of taking a character and transforming him.— Vince Gilligan
The older I get, the more nervous and anxiety-ridden I get. I don't know how to fix that.— Vince Gilligan
I think its more important for you to go than me. You're Valentine's son, I'm sure you're the one the Queen really wants to see. Besides, you're charming."— Cassandra Clare
Jace glared at him.
"Maybe not at the moment," Alec amended. "But you're usually charming. And faeries are very susceptible to charm."
"Plus, if you stay here, I've got the whole first season of Gilligan's Island on DVD," Magnus said.
"No one could turn that down," said Jace.
-Alec, Magnus, & Jace, pg.148 & 149-
There are two ways of knowing if something ends badly: If you're honest with yourself, you just kind of know it. And then there's other people's reaction to it.— Vince Gilligan
It was like the time her sister suggested she read Emily Dickinson to the tune of Gilligan's Island. Once certain thoughts got into your head, you couldn't get rid of them.— Sarah Dunn
I'd been brought up on ... American TV: 'Lou Grant,' 'Starsky & Hutch;' 'Gilligan's Island.'— Pierce Brosnan
TV is where writers get to tell interesting stories. Because writers, for the most part, run television.— Vince Gilligan
At a time when efforts are being made to eradicate discrimination between the sexes in the search for social equality and justice, the differences between the sexes are being rediscovered.— Carol Gilligan
Gilligan argued that while men seek maturity by detaching themselves, women see themselves maturing as they attach.18— Timothy J. Keller
People want what they want, for as long as they want it, then tastes change and something else works.— Vince Gilligan
A guy comes home from college to find his mother sleeping with his uncle, and there's a ghost running around. Write it good, it's Hamlet; write it bad, it's Gilligan's Island.— Lorne Michaels
Endings are the hardest part. I find there's a great relief that at the end of every episode, every hour of TV you produce, while you want a proper and satisfying ending, it doesn't have to end The Story, in capital letters.— Vince Gilligan
The old priest Peter Gilligan— William Butler Yeats
Was weary night and day;
For half his flock were in their beds,
Or under green sods lay.
I've imparted that philosophy to the writers, but some of them look stuff up while some don't. Same with the editors, directors and actors. To each their own.— Vince Gilligan
I think that for me, as far as audience expectations and how you manage your anxiety, it helps to keep things in perspective.— Vince Gilligan
There's nothing more powerful to a showrunner than a truly invested writer.— Vince Gilligan
It's weird how with a TV show, you don't have just the one ending - you have the many.— Vince Gilligan
You don't make a movie by yourself; you certainly don't make a TV show by yourself. You invest people in their work. You make people feel comfortable in their jobs; you keep people talking.— Vince Gilligan
I love cable, but not because you can show boobies and say the F-word. I love it because you have more time to think. That's the blessing of it.— Vince Gilligan
'SpongeBob SquarePants' is a great show, and it centers on a character that is courageously nice. Why is SpongeBob interesting? It's because he has passion. He has a passion for chasing jellyfish.— Vince Gilligan
Gilligan's Island is wherever you want it to be in your mind.— Bob Denver
If you're too rigid in your thinking you may miss some wonderful opportunities for storytelling.— Vince Gilligan
It's like that old expression: "Men plan and god laughs." You sort of see that in the television world, where you have an idea where things are heading and you have a plan and sort of start off in that general direction, but you wind up taking all these side paths and whatnot - if you're lucky.— Vince Gilligan
It all goes back, of course, to Adam and Eve - a story which shows among other things, that if you make a woman out of a man, you are bound to get into trouble.— Carol Gilligan
The last thing in the world that I would want to know, in my own life, is when I'm going to pass away.— Vince Gilligan
When you're talking about people like Shonda Rhimes, Vince Gilligan or Beau Willimon, you're talking to people who are notable and celebrities in their own right. People want to know how their brains work.— Jim Rash
I used to tell women graduate students, half-seriously, that the role of slightly rebellious daughter was one of the better roles for women living in patriarchy.— Carol Gilligan
Certain issues have been associated with contemporary feminism and in a certain sense circumscribed for that reason.— Carol Gilligan
Speaking and listening are a form of psychic breathing.— Carol Gilligan
I don't know why my brain has kept all the words to the Gilligan's Island theme song and has deleted everything about triangles.— Jeff Foxworthy
Maybe love is like rain. Sometimes gentle, sometimes torrential, flooding, eroding, joyful, steady, filling the earth, collecting in underground springs. When it rains, when we love, life grows.— Carol Gilligan
What's so great about making television is that it's a collaborative beast. It's created by a great many hands belonging to a great many people.— Vince Gilligan
I'm not a big internet guy - not because I'm not interested in what people have to say, but probably because I'm too interested.— Vince Gilligan
You cannot blame porn. When I was young, I used to masturbate to Gilligan's Island.— Ron Jeremy
While an ethic of justice proceeds from the premise of equality - that everyone should be treated the same - an ethic of care rests on the premise of nonviolence - that no one should be hurt.— Carol Gilligan
You asked my opinion and I gave it. Of course you have to remember that if I'd been on the island with Gilligan, he'd have been killed ten minutes into the first episode. Where I come from, incompetence and stupidity are reasons for justifiable homicide. (Varyk)— Sherrilyn Kenyon
If you look closely at 'Breaking Bad' and any given episode of 'The X Files,' you will realise the structure is exactly the same.— Vince Gilligan
I wanna keep being productive and creative.— Vince Gilligan
I don't like it to be compared to 'Survivor.' The idea of 'Survivor' is to kill each other off to win the prize. There's no killing in Gilligan's Island.— Sherwood Schwartz
If religion is a reaction of man, and nothing more, it seems to me that it represents a human desire for wrongdoers to be punished. I hate the idea of Idi Amin living in Saudi Arabia for the last 25 years of his life. That galls me to no end. I feel some sort of need for biblical atonement, or justice, or something. I like to believe there is some comeuppance, that karma kicks in at some point, even if it takes years or decades to happen. My girlfriend says this great thing that's become my philosophy as well. 'I want to believe there's a heaven. But I can't not believe there's a hell.'— Vince Gilligan
Trust grows when babies and mothers establish that they can find each other again after the inevitable moments of losing touch. It is not the goodness of the mother or the relationship per se that is the basis for trust; it is the ability of mother and baby together to repair the breaks in their relationship that builds a safe house for love.— Carol Gilligan
Alec flushed. "I think it's more important for you to go than me. You're Valentine's son, I'm sure you're the one the Queen really wants to see. Besides, you're charming."— Cassandra Clare
Jace glared at him.
"Maybe not at the moment," Alec amended. "But you're usually charming. And faeries are very susceptible to charm."
"Plus, if you stay here, I've got the whole first season of Gilligan's Island on DVD," Magnus said.
"No one could turn that down," said Jace. He still wouldn't look at Clary.
Pleasure is a sensation. It is written into our bodies; it is our experience of delight, of joy ... Pleasure will become a marker, a compass pointing to emotional true north.— Carol Gilligan
I watched a lot of series. I didn't watch a lot of movies on TV. But I watched Gilligan's Island and Star Trek and all that stuff.— Geena Davis
From 1965 to 1967, my dad, Jack Gilligan, served in Congress and helped pass landmark laws like the Voting Rights Act.— Kathleen Sebelius
Did you know that a lot of Emily Dickinson's poems can be sung to the theme from Gilligan's Island? Not kidding, this is totally legit.— Chris Bohjalian
The studies of women's lives over time portray the role of crisis in transition and underline the possibilities for growth and despair that lie in the recognition of defeat. The studies of Betty and Sarah elucidate the transitions in the development of an ethic of care. The shifts in concern from survival to goodness and from goodness to truth are elaborated through time in these two women's lives. Both studies illustrate the potential of crisis to break a cycle of repetition and suggest that crisis itself may signal a return to a missed opportunity for growth. These portraits of transition are followed by depictions of despair, illustrations of moral nihilism in women who could find no answer to the question "why care?— Carol Gilligan
People are hypocrites. If you ask them what they want to see on TV, they'll tell you they want better quality programming. And then what do they watch? 'Gilligan's Island.'— Johnny Carson
The hardest times for me were not when people challenged what I said, but when I felt my voice was not heard.— Carol Gilligan
Television is a great job for a writer in the way that movies used to be, way before my time. Back when writers in Hollywood were on staff or under contract at any given studio and you'd write movie scripts and then the movies would get made within a few weeks, such that you could be a working writer in the movie business back in the '30s and '40s and '50s and have a hand in writing five or six movies a year that actually got produced. The only thing remotely like that in the 21st century here in Hollywood is working in the TV business.— Vince Gilligan
When you say the name Gilligan, you know who that is. If a show is good, if it's written well, you should be able to erase the names of the characters saying the lines and still be able to know who said it. If you can't do that, the show will fail.— Sherwood Schwartz
Jace suggested that the cast of "Gilligan's Island" could go do something anatomically unlikely with themselves.— Cassandra Clare
While men represent powerful activity as assertion and aggression, women in contrast portray acts of nurturance as acts of strength.— Carol Gilligan
The most dangerous men on earth are those who are afraid they are wimps— James Gilligan
Having certain limits - not too many, but certain limits on an ability to tell a story - makes us work harder, me and my writers. Sometimes I watch a giant movie with a $250 million budget and I think they feel kind of bloated, and that if they'd been leaner and meaner they might've had better storytelling.— Vince Gilligan
When deciding what to do next, we can always ask: Does this thought, emotion, or behavior bring me closer to or take me further away from my center?— Stephen Gilligan
Women's deference is rooted not only in their social subordination but also in the substance of their moral concern. Sensitivity to the needs of others and the assumption of responsibility for taking care lead women to attend to voices other than their own and to include in their judgement other points of view.— Carol Gilligan
All violence is an attempt to replace shame with self-esteem.— James Gilligan
For a man to be a man, did he have to be a soldier, or at least prepare himself for war? For a woman to be a woman, did she have to be a mother, or at least prepare herself to raise children? Soldiers and mothers were the sacrificial couple, honored by statues in the park, lauded for their willingness to give their lives to others.— Carol Gilligan
[Making meth] is a complex process. The truth of it is that we live in a post-Google world where you can find six recipes for meth in 30 seconds on a search engine.— Vince Gilligan
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My research suggests that men and women may speak different languages that they assume are the same, using similar words to encode disparate experiences of self and social relationships. Because these languages share an overlapping moral vocabulary, they contain a propensity for systematic mistranslation ...— Carol Gilligan
... I draw on the work of Piaget (1968) in identifying conflict as the harbinger of growth and also on the work of Erikson (1964) who, in charting development through crisis, demonstrates how a heightened vulnerability signals the emergence of a potential strength, creating a dangerous opportunity for growth, "a turning point for better or worse" (p. 139).— Carol Gilligan
Many women have told me they remember where they were when they read the book, and how they felt suddenly that what they really thought or felt about things made sense.— Carol Gilligan
The women's movement is taking a different form right now, and it is because it has been so effective and so successful that there's a huge counter movement to try to stop it, to try to divide women from one another, to try to almost foment divisiveness.— Carol Gilligan
Vince Gilligan and AMC are really wonderful people to direct and produce for because they don't put the demands of any conventionalism on you.— Michelle MacLaren
In all honesty, I've written movies that have been made, and the process has not been as satisfying as writing for television.— Vince Gilligan
The reason that I think it is a waste of time to engage in moral value judgements about people's violence, is because it doesn't advance by one iota our understanding of either the causes or the prevention of the violent behaviour.— James Gilligan
Let the audience put 2 and 2 together so that it comes up with 4. Let them do that themselves, and they'll love you forever.— Vince Gilligan
As the psychologist Carol Gilligan has written, "Women's sense of integrity seems to be entwined with an ethic of care, so that to see themselves as women is to see themselves in a relationship of connection.— Elizabeth Gilbert
It wasn't Ginger's Island, it was Gilligan's Island.— Sherwood Schwartz
It may be somewhat paradoxical to refer to shame as a 'feeling,' for while shame is initially painful, constant shaming leads to a deadening of feeling. Shame, like cold, is, in essence, the absence of warmth. And when it reaches overwhelming intensity, shame is experienced, like cold, as a feeling of numbness and deadness. [In Dante's Inferno] the lowest circle of hell was a region not of flames, but of ice---absolute coldness.— James Gilligan
I'm a member of the American Chemical Society, and in its magazine, the 'Chemical and Engineering News,' there was an interview of Vince Gilligan when he had first started the television show 'Breaking Bad.' And in that interview, he was stating how important it was to him that he get the science right for the show.— Donna Nelson
I felt alone out there, like I was on a desert island. I felt like Gilligan.— Mickey Rivers
In the different voice of women lies the truth of an ethic of care, the tie between relationship and responsibility, and the origins of aggression in the failure of connection.— Carol Gilligan
I don't think my memory of that night is ever coming back."— Jennifer Echols
"Do you want me to hit you on the head with a coconut? It works on Gilligan's Island.
Read at a time when everything feels intense, seminal, and like you're the first person to discover it, freshman year of college, Carol Gilligan's 'In a Different Voice' made my hair stand on end with awe.— Emma McLaughlin
I find the question of whether gender differences are biologically determined or socially constructed to be deeply disturbing.— Carol Gilligan
As the show's executive producer, I envisioned something akin to "Gilligan's Island" meets Lord of the Flies meets Ten Little Indians mets "The Real World." "Survivor" marks a return to a core element of adventure: staying alive.— Mark Burnett
I was creator and executive producer of 'The Brady Bunch' on TV. The stage version was done by others, but it was a repeat of the old scripts. The 'Gilligan' musical is a completely original work with all seven characters and 18 original songs.— Sherwood Schwartz
Theory can blind observation.— Carol Gilligan
I really knew how to speak - from my female voice, that "different voice" that Carol Gilligan so presciently described many years ago in her groundbreaking book. Because if we try to speak in a voice that isn't ours, we lose our power.— Elizabeth Lesser
Everything about women is in perpetual crisis.— Carol Gilligan
Living at once inside and outside the framework, Hester is able to see the frame.— Carol Gilligan
It'll be a great day when the seniors have all the baseball caps they need and the Pentagon bombs Gilligan's Island.— Jesse Jackson
This knotted dilemma lies at the center of women's development. How can girls both enter and stay outside of, be educated in and then try to change, what for millennia has been a man's world?— Carol Gilligan
I've found that if I say what I'm really thinking and feeling, people are more likely to say what they really think and feel. The conversation becomes a real conversation.— Carol Gilligan
Bespoke tailoring: yes! I found this one pair of pants - they're Canali - and brought them into a tailor and said, 'Clone these, dammit.' They just do all the right things. I've got eight pairs in different colors and I never have to think about pants again. The only look otherwise that suits me is, like, the Professor from 'Gilligan's Island.'— Douglas Coupland
Any real accomplishment in the world reflects the efforts of a lot of people ... For an individual to claim personal responsibility was the height of arrogance.— John J. Gilligan
One of the obvious implications is that a person will have to face the fact that she cannot meet other people's expectations. This signals the end of what might be called the "camel" phase of human development. I believe it was Nietschze who suggested that for the first part of life, we are camels, trudging through the desert, accepting on our backs everybody's "shoulds" and "don'ts." Camels only know how to spit; they don't think for themselves or talk back. As the camel dies, a lion is born in its place. Lions discover both their roar and the art of preening. The lion may be a little shaky at first, so support and encouragement are vital. But once the camel begins to die (e.g., signaled by depression), there is no turning back. Symptoms occupy the space between the death of the camel and the birth of the lion. A therapist can be a good midwife during this liminal phase.— Stephen Gilligan
It's often the case with successful TV shows that they kind of inadvertently live on past their prime. It's best to leave the audience wanting more.— Vince Gilligan
I mean, I didn't ever watch 'Gilligan's Island' and think, 'Those people are actors.' I lived in West Virginia. Hollywood just felt like this total other universe.— Jennifer Garner
The desires our little family couldn't afford to indulge had never seemed important, only snobbish and silly and somehow misplaced, like Thurston Howell's priorities on Gilligan's Island. Besides, I'd had as much or more money than most kids I'd known in Brooklyn, if somewhat less than the majority of my Manhattan schoolmates at Stuyvesant, so figured I was somewhere in the middle. Yeah, sure, that was it: I was middle class.— Jonathan Lethem
When a person reports a feeling, it's a comment on our relationship.— Stephen Gilligan
