Quotes About Television

Unlike television, nature does not steal time; it amplifies it.

Television remains the most effective thief of time.

In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.

Avoid triggers. If you're an alcoholic, stay out of bars. If you're a depressed or impulsive shopper, don't go shopping. When you have to, go in with a list, rush in, and rush out. If you watch too much television, don't sit in your favorite chair. In fact, move it (or the TV) to another room.

All television is children's television.

I'd like to see poetry become as integral and common to life as music is. It would be nice to be able to enjoy a poem for a while—like a summer hit on the radio—in addition to enjoying a poem as an important, lasting work. I'd like to see poetry treated more like television. I admit, it sounds odd, but I'd love to see it understood as something available and enjoyable. It is. We should.

the shelves on shelves of unread or half-read or read-and-forgotten books that had always been supposed to make such a difference and never had; the loathsome, gloating maw of the television set;

A BOOK?! WHAT D'YOU WANNA FLAMING BOOK FOR?...WE'VE GOT A LOVELY TELLY WITH A 12-INCH SCREEN AND NOW YA WANNA BOOK!

All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen. If only they would read a little Dickens or Kipling they would soon discover there was more to life than cheating people and watching television.

There's nothin' you can get from a book that you can't get from a television fastah! -Harry Wormwood

We've got a lovely telly with a twelve-inch screen and now you come asking for a book! You're getting spoiled, my girl!

All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen. If only they would read a little Dickens or Kipling they would soon discover there was more to life than cheating people and watching television. Another thing. She resented being told constantly that she was ignorant and stupid when she knew she wasn't. The anger inside her went on boiling and boiling

that ridiculous machine, That nauseating, foul, unclean, Repulsive television screen!

Let's learn to make a speech a day Upon the T.V. screen, In which you never never say Exactly what you mean.

Daddy," she said, "do you think you could buy me a book?" "A book?" he said. "What d'you want a flaming book for?" "To read, Daddy." "What's wrong with the telly, for heaven's sake? We've got a lovely telly with a twelve-inch screen and now you come asking for a book! You're getting spoiled, my girl!

Harry Cox of Great Yarmouth, who went on to become a celebrated face of the traditional folk revival, recording more than 200 songs and appearing frequently on television until his death in 1971.

A boy who gets a C- in 'Appreciation of Television' can't be all bad.

God invented people to amuse Him because He didn't have television

Solipsism, for heaven's sake! God invented people to amuse Him because He didn't have television—that makes just as much sense!

She began to think of TVland as, not just a condensed electronic image or ghost of Reality, but a mask that had undergone considerable editing and rewriting to suit those in charge of Reality Selection for the whole society in which the TV existed. She realized that what the TV showed did not represent a simple Xerox of the Real World but a complicated social "game" — or tacit conspiracy — to pretend a certain set of programs contained all of the Real World.

Sartre claimed that hell is other people," I said. "He never saw no TV game show," Hawk said.

The Burbank Studios in beautiful downtown Burbank.

Television has greater power over the lives of most Americans than any educational system, government, or church.

One for the wheelchair, and one for the tank; one for insurance, and one for the bank; one lived in the TV, bitching and whining; one slept in the hall light, constantly shining.