Television Quotes

I wanted to send a message to the television industry that excitement is not made of car chases.

I grew up in the world of bad television, on my dad's sets and then as a young schmuck on dating sho...

You know, who tells the stories of a culture really governs human behaviour. It used to be the paren...

If naturalists go to heaven (about which there is considerable ecclesiastical doubt), I hope that I ...

Encourage your children to read more and watch television less.

I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and...

I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library ...

I like to stay home and watch television. The Game Show channel, mostly.

I'm under the impression that this notion of decency is disappearing from our society where conflict...

So technologies, whether it is a telephone or an iPhone, computers in general or automobiles, televi...

If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and telev...

I think I thought it would be important for electronics as we knew it then, but that was a much simp...

Well, the big products in electronics in the '50s were radio and television. The first big computers...

I don't think movies or television have any basis in reality at all. It's all just pretend. That's w...

Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the o...

While the notion that torture works has been glorified in television shows and movies, the simple tr...

We can't just have mainstream behavior on television in a free society, we have to make sure we see ...

Do you know we are being led toSlaughters by placid admirals& that fat slow generals are gettingObsc...

I hate to mention age, but I come from an era when we weren't consumed by technology and television.

I was very sad to hear of the death of Ronnie Barker, who was such a warm, friendly and encouraging ...

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.

TV families and your own are hard to tell apart, except your isn't interrupted every six minutes by ...

If it weren't for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we'd still be eating frozen radio din...

We must, together as a nation, stop watching Fox.

If you can't run, you crawl. If you can't crawl-- you find someone to carry you.

People love a happy ending. So every episode, I will explain once again that I don't like people. An...

My mom and dad were divorced, and although they got along very well, my mom thought American televis...

Every day's a negotiation and sometimes it's done with guns.

At Current, television is all we do - that's our business. We don't have amusement parks I have to w...

On the one hand, the press, television, and movies make heroes of vandals by calling them whiz kids.

As long as we, in the United States, continue to insist that our politicians have to spend all of th...

No press, no television. If my mom calls and says, 'Did you hear about?' I don't want to know nothin...

Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object.

Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as lives...

Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by ...

It doesn't take money to turn off the television and cultivate real bonding time.

When I turned about 14, I developed a friendship with this guy whose mom was the secretary to Ernest...

No matter what it is, if you don’t move your eyes and set the pace yourself, your intellect is sente...

Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the...

If the education of our kids comes from radio, television, newspapers - if that's where they get mos...

Sometimes I look around my living room, and the most real thing in the room is the television. It’s ...

Back in the 1950s and '60s, J. M. Barrie's 'Peter Pan' - starring Mary Martin and Cyril Ritchard - w...

Television has its own award. It's called the Emmy. It's a good award. I like it. I have one. But yo...

For so many people, television and movies may be the only way they understand people who aren't like...

We owe a lot to Thomas Edison - if it wasn't for him, we'd be watching television by candlelight.

I'm the idiot box. I'm the TV. I'm the all-seeing eye and the world of the cathode ray. I'm the boob...

Poverty is a great educator. Having no boundaries and refusing to be ignored, it mostly teaches hope...

Watch a man--say, a politician--being interviewed on television, an you are observing a demonstratio...

Television screens saturated with commercials promote the utopian and childish idea that all problem...

Every television program must be a complete package in itself. No previous knowledge is to be requir...

Of course, in television's presentation of the "news of the day," we may see the Now...this" mode of...

In America, everyone is entitled to an opinion, and it is certainly useful to have a few when a poll...

The television commercial has mounted the most serious assault on capitalist ideology since the publ...

Americans no longer talk to each other, they entertain each other. They do not exchange ideas, they ...

With television, we vault ourselves into a continuous, incoherent present.

Moreover, we have seen enough by now to know that technological changes in our modes of communicatio...

I should go so far as to say that embedded in the surrealistic frame of a television news show is a ...

Voting, we might even say, is the next to last refuge of the politically impotent. The last refuge i...

In saying no one knew about the ideas implicit in the telegraph, I am not quite accurate. Thoreau kn...

I was about 12 years old and I was sitting watching the television and it was some kind of talent sh...

When Rumsfeld gets up on television and says we have definitive intelligence that al Qaeda is workin...

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Good heavens television is something you appear on you don't watch.

I've never understood the cult of Hitchcock. Particularly the late American movies... Egotism and la...

The television image sanctified, conferred identity. The more familiar the face, the more to be trus...

The problem, when comparing contemporary television to television in 1974, is that TV has become not...

Television is not the truth. Television is a god-damned amusement park. Television is a circus a ca...

Television is democracy at its ugliest.

Television is something the Russians invented to destroy American education.

Americans may say they love our accents (I have been accused of sounding 'like Princess Di') but the...

We welcome into our homes the machines that vacuum the thoughts out of our heads and pump in someone...

I fell in love with stories watching a British television puppet show called 'Thunderbirds' when it ...

You should've thought of that before becoming a fir

The television is 'real'. It is immediate, it has dimension. It tells you what to think and blasts i...

Television's perfect. You turn a few knobs, a few of those mechanical adjustments at which the highe...

I work for ABC television I have my own syndicated TV series. I've been on the cover of 'Time Magazi...

Television and radio do a wonderful job in focusing attention on the problems of our society.

It's been suggested that if the super-naturalists really had the powers they claim, they'd win the l...

Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, an...

So please, oh please, we beg, we pray,Go throw your TV set away,And in its place you can installA lo...

But sometimes the lies we let ourselves believe are for our own good.

I don't think playing it safe constitutes a retreat, necessarily. In other words, I don't think if, ...

I think that 'Fox & Friends' audience is going to increase. That franchise in the morning is very im...

People are patronizing the theatres with renewed enthusiasm - there is an entire picnic-like attitud...

What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible re...

Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad telev...

Difference between TV and the internet was how far you sat from the screen. TV was an 8 foot activit...

[T]his readiness to assume the guilt for the threats to our environment is deceptively reassuring: W...

It's a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I ...

I am, when you stop to think of it, a member of a fairly select group: the final handful of American...

When you're young, you look at television and think, there's a conspiracy. The networks have conspir...

Television has a different biorhythm than movies. I love the biorhythm of TV.

Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke ...

I've had the good fortune to have a much more diverse life than most people would, professional spor...

Many of our own people here in this country do not ask about computers, telephones and television se...

It is hard to read a newspaper or watch a television newscast without encountering someone who has c...

I was one of the first generations to watch television. TV exposes people to news, to information, t...

I think television's become a downright dangerous thing. It has no moral barometer whatsoever. If yo...

There was a time in the 1930s when magazine writers could actually make a good living. 'The Saturday...