Quotes About Television

I know the present only through the television screen, whereas I have direct knowledge of the Middle Ages.

the advent of television… destroyed the linear universe of mechanical civilization, inspired by the Gutenbergian model, reestablishing a sort of tribal unity, like a primitive village.

He asked me about myself and my travels. I told him I had been to Iran. He said, 'Khomeini is a good man. He is Islamic.' 'Why do you say that?' I had expected him, so orthodox and fierce, to disapprove of Khomeini's Shia Islam as a deviation. He said, 'He has banned women from appearing on television.' It was all that he knew of Iran since the revolution.

Stories are gifts given by an elder to a younger person. Unfortunately, this gift is not given, nor received, as often today because many of our youth are occupied by television and the fast pace of modern-day living.

So no one should rely on television either for their knowledge of music or for news. There's just more going on. It's an adjunct to the written word, which I think is still the most important thing.

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.

We live in a time of terror, and contrary to what we see on television and allow ourselves to believe, the real goal of terror is not to kill people but to kill thought; to so demoralize a society that it implodes from within.

Well, we look for sources of inspiration in pop culture in general. It's very important for us that, when it comes to storytelling, we don't look into other video games. We'd rather look into other mediums -- movies, television series and books -- for sources of inspiration.

Has she grown up keenly observing, scrutinizing the children around her as if she were researching the most intricate sociology report: their clothes, their games, their television shows, their preferred methods of cruelty, their figures of speech? Has she sought invisibility among them, hoped they would not notice her, because the least bit of attention could transform into physical cruelty?

Jace suggested that the cast of "Gilligan's Island" could go do something anatomically unlikely with themselves.

Jace said that the cast of Gilligan's Island could do something anatomically unlikely with themselves.

I need some beef and broccoli before I face any more Mr. Darcy. It's a truth universally acknowledged that if you watch too much television on am empty stomach, your head falls off." "If your head fall off, " Tessa said, "the hairdressing industry would go into an economic meltdown

What's going on?" "We seem to be trapped in an episode of One Life to Waste ," Magnus observed. "Its all very dull." -Alec & Magnus, pg.144-

We often try to compete with the rapid paced entertainment of television, seldom giving children a quiet moment in which to meet God, and many children lose touch with the God for whom their hearts hunger.

In a very real way, television is the new mythos. It defines the world, reinterprets it. The seasons do not change because Persephone goes underground. They change because new episodes air, because sweeps week demands conflagrations and ritual deaths. The television series rises slowly, arcs, descends into hiatus, and rises again with the bright, burning autumn.

It's certain that the death of an actor can be on a television screen playing the same thing every week.

You will not be able to stay home, brother.You will not be able to plug in, turn on, and cop out.You will not be able to lose yourself on scagand skip out for beer during commercial breaks.The revolution will not be televised.

You will not be able to stay home, brother./You will not be able to plug in, turn on and cop out./You will not be able to lose yourself on skag and skip,/Skip out for beer during commercials,/Because the revolution will not be televised.

The revolution will not be televised, will not be televised, Will not be televised, will not be televised. The revolution will not be re-run, brothers. The revolution will be live.

The revolution will not be televised, will not be televised, Will not be televised, will not be televised. The revolution will be not re-run, brothers. The revolution will be live.

I quickly dressed in my shorts and a t-shirt, before my lazy side could convince me if God wanted us to exercise, He wouldn't have invented the Lifetime Channel.

Actualmente el pueblo soberano «opina» sobre todo en función de cómo la televisión le induce a opinar. Y en el hecho de conducir la opinión, el poder de la imagen se coloca en el centro de todos los procesos de la política contemporánea.

Y la cuestión es ésta: la televisión invierte la evolución de lo sensible en inteligible y lo convierte en el ictu oculi , en un regreso al puro y simple acto de ver. La televisión produce imágenes y anula los conceptos, y de este modo atrofia nuestra capacidad de abstracción y con ella toda nuestra capacidad de entender.

La televisión no es sólo instrumento de comunicación; es también, a la vez, paideía , un instrumento «antropogenético», un medium que genera un nuevo ánthropos , un nuevo tipo de ser humano.