Quotes About Television

When the opportunity came along to do 'Win, Lose or Draw,' I took it selfishly to find out if I did enjoy being me on camera. And I did that for the last two years I was doing 'Mama's Family.'

There's going to be a picture of 'Mama' on my obit.

Sometimes when I'm watching managers on television and I see all that anxiety I realise that I don't miss the job as much as I thought.

I miss particularly the managing editor role on the 'Evening News.'

I work on 'A Question of Sport' which comes out of Manchester and you see how it's important to take parts of the BBC to other parts of the nation.

I watched a lot of games in the Theatre of Dreams and of Manchester United on television.

I felt a mandate to go on TV.

I was a sitting judge in Manhattan. I was a supervising judge in Manhattan, and they said to me, 'Did you ever think of doing what you do on television?'

You have to fight to get your show not only on the air but then to keep it what it is and make sure that it doesn't get manipulated into something else.

Funny enough, the first time I watched 'Arrow' was because Audrey Marie Anderson, who plays Lyla, was in my episodes of 'The Walking Dead' with me.

I mean, we had on our show, we had marriages, divorces and other stuff going on. And that was just me.

But during the many happy hours that Cadpig was to sit watching it in the warm kitchen she never liked it quite so much as that other television, that still silent television she had seen on Christmas Eve when the puppies had rested so peacefully in that strange lofty building. She often remembered that building and wondered who owned it. Someone very kind she was sure for in front of every one of the many seats there had been a little carpet-eared puppy-sized dog-bed.

It is when death is rendered graphically, is televised so to speak, that you sense an eerie separation between your condition and yourself. A network of symbols has been introduced, an entire awesome technology wrested from the gods. It makes you feel like a stranger in your own dying.

Everything was on television last night

Television. Maybe it was all a study in the art of mummification. The effect of the medium is so evanescent that those who work in its time apparatus feel the need to preserve themselves, delivering their bodies to be lacquered and trussed, sprayed with the rarest of pressurized jellies, all to one end, a release from the perilous context of time. This is their only vanity, to expect to dwell forever in hermetic sub-corridors, free of every ravage, secure as old kings asleep in sodium.

In the middle of it all is Hitler, of course. He was on again last night. He's always on. We couldn't have television without him.

He liked to mingle with shopping mall crowds. "I'm counting on you to tell me, Jack." "Tell you what?" "You're the only person I know that's educated enough to give me the answer." "The answer to what?" "Were people this dumb before television?" One

For most people there are only two places in the world. Where they live and their TV set.

For most people there are only two places in the world. Where they live and their TV set. If a thing happens on television, we have every right to find it fascinating, whatever it is.

That's my argument exactly. Fangs. Snakebite. Fifty thousand people a year die of snakebite. it was on television last night.' 'Everything was on television last night.,' Orest said.

That's my argument exactly. Fangs. Snakebite. Fifty thousand people a year die of snakebite. It was on television last night." "Everything was on television last night," Orest said. I admired the reply.

Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV.

I feel guilty because for a long time I didn't allow myself a television, and I used to drop that fact in conversation to impress people. I thought it made me sound dignified. A couple of years ago, however, I visited a church in the suburbs and there was this blowhard preacher talking about how television rots your brain. He said that when we are watching television our minds are working no harder than when we are sleeping. I thought that sounded heavenly. I bought one that afternoon.

My broken identity turned me into a manipulator and my romantic life looked like one of those fishing shows on television, a game of catch and release in which I only held the girl long enough to snap a picture.