Television Quotes
Television has brought murder back into the home - - where it belongs.Alfred Hitchcock
One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.Kurt Vonnegut, "Cold Turkey", In These Times, May 10, 2004
The car trip can draw the family together, as it was in the days before television when parents and children actually talked to each other.Andrew H. Malcolm
Television is chewing gum for the eyes.Unknown
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.Peter De Vries
A computer terminal is not some clunky old television with a typewriter in front of it. It is an interface where the mind and body can connect with the universe and move bits of it about. from Mostly Harmless.Douglas Noel Adams
The trouble was, all people saw on television were a few of my outspoken supporters out front and they came away thinking that was me.George Stanley McGovern
It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.Rod Serling
Television is democracy at its ugliest.Paddy Chayefsky
Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.Rita Mae Brown
Television is more interesting than people. If it were not, we would have people standing in the corners of our rooms.Alan Corenk
The human race is faced with a cruel choice work or daytime television.Unknown
One of the few good things about modern times If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.Kurt Vonnegut
Television is the triumph of machine over people.Fred Allen
Television: chewing gum for the eyes.Frank Lloyd Wright
Television is simultaneously blamed, often by the same people, for worsening the world and for being powerless to change it.Clive James
I think that parents only get so offended by television because they rely on it as a babysitter and the sole educator of their kids.Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park, Death, 1997
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.Groucho Marx
The whole problem with news on television comes down to this: all the words uttered in an hour of news coverage could be printed on page of a newspaper. And the world cannot be understood in one page.Neil Postman
Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.Alfred Hitchcock
The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime television.Unknown
I find women with well developed flesh very attractive. The scrawny little things doing commercials on my television set are slightly repulsive - - Like famine victims.Dana Hatch
There are, however, people in this world who seldom pick up a newspaper, people who, when watching television, sneer in displeasure and change channels at the first glimpse of an anchorperson. While such willfully uninformed citizens are rare, emerging from seclusion only to serve on juries in trials of great national significance, they do exist.Joe Keenan
Television is the first truly democratic culture - The first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want.Clive Barnes
You have to work years in hit shows to make people sick and tired of you, but you can accomplish this in a few weeks on television.Walter Slezak
Television is the first truly democratic culture - - The first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want.Clive Barnes
The great thing about television is that if something important happens anywhere in the world, day or night, you can always change the channel.From "Taxi".
Imitation is the sincerest form of television.Fred Allen
Everyone has a purpose in life. Perhaps yours is watching television.David Letterman
Television A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.Ernie Kovacs
I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.Groucho Marx
Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.Ann Landers
Television has raised writing to a new low.Samuel Goldwyn
Television is a medium because anything well done is rare.Fred Allen
I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.Dwight David Eisenhowe
Television is for appearing on - Not for looking at.Noel Coward
Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.T. S. Eliot
