Quotes About Television

I've got a job," Max told Robin, muting the TV. Two champagne glasses and a bottle were sitting on the coffee table in front of him. "Second lead, new drama, BBC One. Have a drink." "Max, that's fantastic!" said Robin, thrilled for him.

The sky above the island was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel—which is to say it was a bright, cheery blue.

Today's television sitcoms...the father is typically depicted as a clumsy buffoon, an inane and even unnecessary appendage. In creating that caricature, producers and directors have done irreparable damage to the God-ordained image of what may be one of the most significant roles and offices in eternity - that of a father, that of a real man.

When I crouch to my television set,the drained faces of Negro school-children rise like balloons.

In the privacy of their offices, members of Congress could be calm, thoughtful, and sometimes insightful and intelligent in discussing issues. But when they went into an open hearing, and the little red light went on atop a television camera, it had the effect of a full moon on a werewolf. Many would posture and preach, with long lectures and harshly critical language; some become raving lunatics.

Las víctimas tienen televisiones enormes. Los líderes poseen grandes bibliotecas».

Y por cierto, es mejor hundirnos en el fracaso por haber querido perseguir nuestras más altas ambiciones, que malgastar nuestras mejores horas viendo la televisión sin salir de la mediocridad.

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.

Technology provides the potential, by use of well-produced books, film, television, and interactive computer-controlled systems of various kinds. These, and other developments, provide many opportunities for expanding our minds-or else for deadening them. The human mind is capable of vastly more than it is often given the chance to achieve. Sadly, these opportunities are all to frequently squandered, and the minds of neither young nor old are provided the openings that they undoubtedly deserve.

The date here is very interesting, because, as far as I can determine, the first Star Trek episode to refer to a black hole, which it called a black star, was aired in 1967 before Wheeler ever used the term in public.

Koppel won an Emmy for that show. Miscavige took credit for it, saying, "I got Ted the Emmy." He even had a replica of an Emmy made and placed in the Officers Lounge at Gold Base. But he never went on television again.

First: Character is king. There are probably fewer than six books every century remembered specifically for their plots. People remember characters. Same with television. Who remembers the Lone Ranger? Everybody. Who remembers any actual Lone Ranger story lines? Nobody.

First: Character is king. There are probably fewer than six books every century remembered specifically for their plots. People remember characters. Same with television. Who remembers the Lone Ranger? Everybody. Who remembers any actual Lone Ranger story lines? Nobody. So

conclusions. First: Character is king. There are probably fewer than six books every century remembered specifically for their plots. People remember characters. Same with television. Who remembers the Lone Ranger? Everybody. Who remembers any actual Lone Ranger story lines? Nobody.

Powiedz mi, ale szczerze - odezwa?a si? Scully, zmierzaj?c w stron? budynku. - Dlaczego rozsta?e? si? z Jerrym? - Bo jestem trudny. - Pytam powa?nie. - Nie jestem trudny? - Mulder, nie wyg?upiaj si?.

A film presents images; a book creates them inside the reader, with the reader's active participation. Books are good for your brain. Neurologists have found that, when watching television or film, the viewer's eyes remain idle, straight ahead, but when reading, the actual physical movement of scanning the page from left to right (or right to left, or up and down, depending) stimulates and conditions the brain, a Stairmaster of the mind.

I told him Friday was a different religious occasion: Doctor Who . Hey, it's not my fault they don't have TiVo yet.

Nobody wants to be themselves. That's why there's TV. So you know what to want and who to be.

We're a free society; we've got television. We have radio. We have newspapers. We have the videocassette, which is coming into play. These are new freedoms.

TV has had a stronger impact on our society than any single invention since the automobile. It has put the dead hand on conversation.

We don't care really about children as a society and television reflects that indifference to children as human beings.

I think society has become more and more immune to reality television which is the most frightening thing in the world to me.

Television is a formidable thinking tool. You are like an analyst to whom society's subconscious would be offered wide open.

Even when I started in 1970, I knew that television was having a negative effect on our society.