Quotes About Television

In those days, living as we did in the country, without the dubious benefits of radio or television, we had to rely on such primitive forms of amusement as books, quarrelling, parties, and the laughter of our friends, so naturally parties – particularly the more flamboyant ones – became red-letter days, preceded by endless preparations.

If anything is poisoning our lives and weakening our society, it is reality - and not the fabrication of television writers and producers.

All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching?

Television? The word is half Latin and half Greek. No good can come of it.

Television's compelling power is its immediacy . .. this immediacy feeds the politics of emotions, gut reactions and impressions rather than the politics of logic, facts and reason; it emphasizes personality rather than issues.

Television is the literature of the illiterate, the culture of the low-brow, the wealth of the poor, the privilege of the underprivileged, the exclusive club of the excluded masses.

When television is good, nothing is better. But when television is bad, nothing is worse. I invite you to sit down in front of your TV set and keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off. I can assure you that you will observe a vast wasteland.

Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.

Television is a gold goose that lays scrambled eggs; and it is futile and probably fatal to beat it for not laying caviar.

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.

Television has a real problem. They have no page two.

Good heavens, television is something you appear on, you don't watch.

Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home.

Why should people pay good money to go out and see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?

The television commercial is the most efficient power-packed capsule of education that appears anywhere on TV.

Dictum on television scripts: We don't want it good - we want it Tuesday.

Aha! Lassiter pointed at the boob tube. You motherfucker! I knew you were the father!

You have cable?" He nodded toward her TV. She tossed him the clicker. "Sure do. And if I remember, there's a Godzilla marathon on TBS tonight." "Sweet," the vampire said, kicking his legs out. "I always root for the monster." She smiled at him. "Me, too.

Tohr shook his head. If you're going to get plastered, why can't you do it like areal man. I like the taste of fruit. You are what you drink. The angel glanced up at the clock, Shit. I missed Maury. But, I DVR'd Ellen.

Did television execs have souls? Now, that was an existential question and a half.

Why the hell do you care?" With a shrug, Mayhem replied, "I don't have anything better to do. And I haven't been allowed to watch TV for how long? Your drama is going to be my new favorite show.

Was going to pitch it to VH1. Two Bites Are Better Than One. We were going to make millions.

También ponía la televisión, para oír voces, pero eso no hace que dejes de sentirte sola.

Yeah, like Dieter from Sprockets." "Mike Myers is a god.