Television Quotes

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...

If you want to use television to teach somebody, you must first teachthem how to use television.

A democratic civilization will save itself only if it makes the language of the image into a stimulu...

In my day we didn't have sex education, we just picked up what we could off the television.

The democratic system is challenged by the failure in television because our evening news programmes...

If you believe that your thoughts originate inside your brain, do you also believe that television s...

I'm quite proud of what I anticipated about reality television from my books in the early '90s, whic...

I've had several years in Hollywood and I still think the movie heroes are in the audience.

Keisha Blake, whose celebrated will and focus did not leave her much room for angst, watched her fri...

I watch a lot of sport on television. I only watch certain sports, and I only watch them live - I do...

I've loved every minute I've spent in television. And I've had much more failure, as traditionally m...

I find television, and particularly live television, very romantic: the idea that there is this smal...

The theater has been called the pulse of the people.

The one thing I think I've noticed about shows that are supposed to be funny on television is that t...

On television and in the movies, crimes are always solved. Nothing is left uncertain. By the end, th...

We chose younger and younger politicians to lead us because they looked good on television and were ...

Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept ...

Seeing a murder on television... can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagon...

Television has brought back murder into the home - where it belongs.

When I got my first television set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships.

Television has a real problem. They have no page two.

I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than...

Even though some individual scholars try to tell us there is no direct connection between images of ...

Understanding knowledge as an essential element of love is vital because we are bombarded daily with...

Watching television is like taking black spray paint to your third eye.

Last week, I suggested the candidates take up mushrooms. I’ll be damned if Rick Perry didn’t take me...