Television Quotes

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...

I'm not a Christian, but I have read his book.

The printed page conveys information and commitment, and requires active involvement. Television con...

Calvin:"It says here that 'religion is the opiate of the masses.'...what do you suppose that means?"...

My older brother Joel became an art teacher my brother Rip ultimately became a television producer a...

I believe there's too little patience and context to many of the investigations I read or see on tel...

Many people have their reputations as reporters and analysts because they are on television, batting...

Television? The word is half Latin and half Greek. No good can come of it.

The moral nihilism of celebrity culture is played out on reality television shows, most of which enc...

The President is also captured in a well-worn TV news clip, making a boilerplate response to a quest...

What exactly does that expression mean, 'friends with benefits'? Does he provide her with health ins...

Is my coitus whimsically inventive?

I won't say that all senior citizens who can't master technology should be publicly flogged, but if ...

Actually, watching television and surfing the Internet are really excellent practice for being dead.

She had witnessed in nauseating detail how the human world worked: its rituals of comfort (televisio...

There was one moment of intersection, when the topic of hate-watching came up. "Why do you watch TV ...

An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lon...

But reading is different, reading is something you do. With TV, and cinema for that matter, everythi...

I'm well past the age where I'm acceptable. You get to a certain age and you are forbidden access. Y...

A soap opera character on the bar TV says, "You killed him, you smothered him with doughnuts!" Anoth...

Nuclear weapons and TV have simply intensified the consequences of our tendencies.

Leyner's fiction is, in this regard, an eloquent reply to Gilder's prediction that our TV-culture pr...

How can even the idea of rebellion against corporate culture stay meaningful when Chrysler Inc. adve...

Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you woul...

There are different ways people make this place. Sweat, exercise and pain is one way. You can see th...

If we were to do the Second Coming of Christ in color for a full hour, there would be a considerable...

We are in the same tent as the clowns and the freaks-that's show business.

If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.

I ain't scared to do another dating show, but I ain't really trying to. I want to do a talk show or ...

Television is chewing gum for the eyes.

Television is a medium because anything well done is rare.

It's a beautiful day in this neighborhood,A beautiful day for a neighbor.Would you be mine?Could you...

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...