Good Quotes about TV Television: A medium - so called because it is neither rare nor well done. - Ernie Kovacs
Today, watching television often means fighting, violence and foul language - and that's just deciding who gets to hold the remote control. - Donna Gephart
Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home. - David Frost
They say that ninety percent of TV is junk. But, ninety percent of everything is junk. - Gene Roddenberry
It's the menace that everyone loves to hate but can't seem to live without. - Paddy Chayevsky
What is being lost is the magic of the word. I am not an image person. Imagery belongs to another civilization: the caveman. Caveman couldn't express himself so he put images on walls. - Elie Wiesel, 1995
Everything is for the eye these days - TV, Life, Look, the movies. Nothing is just for the mind. The next generation will have eyeballs as big as cantaloupes and no brain at all. - Fred Allen Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy. Pope Paul VI
Time has convinced me of one thing. Television is for appearing on, not looking at. - Noel Coward
TV. If kids are entertained by two letters, imagine the fun they'll have with twenty- six. Open your child's imagination. Open a book. - Author Unknown
I believe television is going to be the test of the modern world, and that in this new opportunity to see beyond the range of our vision, we shall discover a new and unbearable disturbance of the modern peace, or a saving radiance in the sky. We shall stand or fall by television - of that I am quite sure. - E.B. White
I could have been a doctor, but there were too many good shows on TV. - Jason Love
Do you realize if it weren't for Edison we'd be watching TV by candlelight? - Al Boliska
If the television craze continues with the present level of programs, we are destined to have a nation of morons. - Daniel Marsh, 1950
The marvels - of film, radio, and television - are marvels of one- way communication, which is not communication at all. - Milton Mayer
The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little. - Ray Bradbury
Television keeps the masses occupied. What if everyone decided they wanted to make something of their lives? Television keeps the competition down and keeps more criminals off the street. What if everyone decided to go to law school or medical school? It would sure make it tough on the rest of us. - Jim Urbanovich How can you put on a meaningful drama when, every fifteen minutes, proceedings are interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits with toilet paper? - Rod Serling
Sex on television can't hurt you unless you fall off. - Author Unknown
Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other. - Ann Landers
I find television to be very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go in the other room and read a book. - Groucho Marx
Television has changed a child from an irresistible force to an immovable object. - Author Unknown
Every time you think television has hit its lowest ebb, a new type program comes along to make you wonder where you thought the ebb was. - Art Buchwald Television will never be a serious competitor for radio because people must sit and keep their eyes glued on a screen; the average American family hasn't time for it. - Author Unknown, from New York Times, 1939
98% of American homes have TV sets, which means the people in the other 2% have to generate their own sex and violence. - Attributed to Gene Baylos
I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts. - Orson Welles
The smallest bookstore still contains more ideas of worth than have been presented in the entire history of television. - Andrew Ross
Theatre is life. Cinema is art. Television is furniture. - Author Unknown
Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television. - Rita Mae Brown
I have come to the feeling about television the way I do about hamburgers: I eat a lot of hamburgers and I don't remember a single one of them. - John Barrow, 1973
The triumph of machine over people. - Fred Allen, about television |