Quotes About Television

No one wants to admit we're addicted to music. That's just not possible. No one's addicted to music and television and radio. We just need more of it, more channels, a larger screen, more volume. We can't bear to be without it, but no, nobody's addicted. We could turn it off anytime we wanted.

We're all trapped. It's always 1734. All of us, we're stuck in the same time capsule, the same as those television shows where the same people are marooned on the same desert island for thirty seasons and never age or escape. They just wear more makeup. In a creepy way, those shows are maybe too authentic.

We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war. Our Great Depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off.

Trust me, the being-dead part is much easier than the dying part. If you can watch much television, then being dead will be a cinch. Actually, watching television and surfing the Internet are really excellent practice for being dead.

As if any one of those peo­ple isn't al­ready look­ing around for a new gu­ru to make sense out of their risk-?free bore­dom of a lifestyle while they watch the news on tele­vi­sion and pass judg­ment on me.

The muffled thunder of dialogue comes through the walls, then a chorus of laughter. Then more thunder. Most of the laugh tracks on television were recorded in the early 1950s. These days, most of the people you hear laughing are dead.

In the outside world, he said, people were visited in their houses by spirits they called television. Spirits spoke to people through what they called the radio.

Watching hours of television seemed to help, but it took brainpower to be so dumb.

Personne ne veut reconnaître que nous sommes des drogués de musique. Ce n'est tout bonnement pas possible. Personne n'est drogué de musique, de télévision, de radio. Simplement, il nous en faut plus et plus, nous en avons besoin, plus de chaines, un écran plus grand, plus de volume. Nous ne supportons pas de nous en passer, mais, non personne n'est drogué. Nous pourrions l'éteindre dès que nous le voudrions.

We are the middle children of history, raised by television to believe that someday we'll be millionaires and movie stars and rock stars, but we won't. And we're just learning this fact," Tyler said. "So don't fuck with us.

Either a prehistoric flying dinosaur awakened by a nuclear test is about to destroy the people downstairs or their television's too loud. In

Then she turns on the television, some soap opera, you know, real people pretending to be fake people with made-up problems being watched by real people to forget their real problems.

Después de haber estado en el club de la lucha, ver partidos de fútbol americano por televisión es como ver películas porno cuando podrías estar follando a lo grande.

If you can watch much television, then being dead will be a cinch. Actually watching television and surfing the internet are really excellent practise for being dead.

Chuck Palahniuk "Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need. We're the middle children of history. No purpose or place. We have no Great War, No Great Depression. Our great war is a spiritual war. Our great depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires and movie gods and rock stars, but we won't

Habéis pensado alguna vez que la vida es una metáfora de la televisión?

JesteÅ›my niekochanymi dzie?mi historii, wychowanymi na telewizji, która przez lata wmawiaÅ'a nam, ?e pewnego dnia zostaniemy milionerami i gwiazdami filmowymi, i gwiazdami rocka, ale tak siÄ™ nie stanie. I to wÅ'aÅ›nie teraz do nas dociera. WiÄ™c nie zadzieraj z nami.

Z vlastního dÄ›tství si nepamatujeme skoro nic, zato si vzpomínáme na vÅ¡echno, co se dÄ›lo rodinám v seriálech.

Pak zapne televizi, b?ží tam nÄ›jaký seriál, znáte to, skute?ní lidé, co pÃ…â"¢edstírají, že jsou faleÅ¡ní lidé s vymyÅ¡lenými problémy, a na to se dívají skute?ní lidé, co zapomenou na své skute?né problémy.

Either a brave, stubborn southern belle is trying to keep the Union army from burning the apartment next door, or somebody's television is too loud.

Somos los hijos medianos de la historia, educados por la televisión para creer que un día seremos millonarios y estrellas de cine y estrellas de rock, pero no es así.

Reminds me of that urban legend about hearing voices in the white noise of a television tuned to a station that's off the air

I didn't know we received CNN this deep in the Andes.

We were a made-for-TV family. Every new channel added to our lineup, every magnificent home-entertainment advance increased the possibility that we wouldn't have to talk to one another.