Quotes About Television

Quand par hasard elle changeait de chaîne, toutes ces famines, ces épidémies, ces guerres télévisuelles l'affolaient. (...) Elle considérait famines, génocides et purifications ethniques comme autant de phénomènes susceptibles de mettre son mobilier en péril.

In an unconscious gesture of television-enforced democracy

Fiercely competitive TV channels covered the story of the breaking city as "Breaking News." Nobody pointed out the irony.

El cielo estaba relleno de señales de televisión.

I like it when she's shiny, like a star, like a guest on the Donnie and Marie Show .

I would have been an excellent member of the Brady Bunch. I would have been Shaun, the well-behaved blond boy who caused no trouble and helped Alice in the kitchen, then trimmed the split ends off Marcia's hair. I would have not only washed Tiger, but then conditioned his fur. And I would have cautioned Jan against that tacky bracelet that caused the girls to lose the house-of-cards-building contest. *

You exposed your penis on national television, Max. What am I supposed to do? I didn't expose it, Howard, it just sort of peeked out.

Our most powerful visions of traditional families derive from images that are still delivered to our homes in countless reruns of 1950s television sitcoms.

On Friday night, I was reading my new book, but my brain got tired, so I decided to watch some television instead.

Everyone else is either asleep or having sex. I've been watching cable television and eating jello.

I went to the library to look up the figures, and I found out that the episode we watched is the highest watched anything of television history, which I find amazing because it felt like just the five of us.

That's why our TVs are brimming with so much hot man-on-pan action. You can't channel surf for long without seeing turkey getting stuffed over and over until they finally cut to the gravy shot.

What he knows now is that guilt isn't the only reason people commit suicide. Sometimes you can just get bored with afternoon TV.

Reading takes time, and the glass teat takes too much of it.

Television is all right, I've nothing against it, but I don't like how it turns you away from the rest of the world and toward nothing but its own glassy self.

Shut up! Go back to bed, America. Your government is in control. Here's Love Connection. Watch this and get fat and stupid.

I will always love film, the romance of film, sitting in the darkened room with strangers and watching a story for two hours - that will always remain and never be eroded by television.

If it weren't for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we'd still be eating frozen radio dinners.

café a la piel del hombre, tratando de decidir cuál era más oscuro. Su tono iba más allá de un Werther's Original. Más allá de una esposa de futbolista. Este era un moreno nivel televisión de horario diurno.

I looked up through gritty eyes and there it was across the Brooklyn Bridge, Manhattan, shining like a million jagged shards of light, awe-inspiring, glossy, impossibly condensed and beautiful, a sight that was so familiar from television and films that I couldn't quite accept I was seeing it for real.

I stared at them. 'Every time what?' I said, as Nathan put the money into Will's hand. 'He said you'd be reading a book. I said you'd be watching telly. He always wins.' My sandwich stilled at my lips. 'Always? You've been betting on how boring my life is?

We must, together as a nation, stop watching Fox.

On an average day 7 minutes of news happens. Yet there are currently three full-time, 24-hour news networks.

'Allen Gregory' came about because we wanted an animated show and we were just tossing around some ideas about me playing a 7-year-old. We thought that would be cool, because we couldn't do that in real life.