Quotes About Television

It is not "just beer," it is a noble and ancient beverage which, like wine, food and television advertising, can be extraordinarily good or unmercifully bad.

One can watch hours and hours of TV without actually losing interest, but, as with Chinese food, one is rarely left with much residue of nourishment.

Sitcom food is by far the tastiest of all showbiz food.

Allowing your kids to watch TV doesn't have to mean they have no choice but to see commercials for junk food and alcohol.

Molded salads are best served in situations where they have little or no competition ... Like television, gelatin is too often a vehicle for limp leftovers that couldn't make it anywhere else.

I don't like television and movies where it's like, "Well, that was entertaining, but when I think back on it, that didn't really make sense and it's empty." That's like junk food, to me.

I don't watch a huge amount of telly. I read a lot. I'm reading at the moment 'Freedom,' by Jonathan Franzen, a great big brick of a book, and I'm loving it.

There's a little bit more of a freedom when you're doing radio play-by-play as opposed to television. I prefer the television side of it.

In Russia we only had two TV channels. Channel One was propaganda. Channel Two consisted of a KGB officer telling you: Turn back at once to Channel One.

Television has made dictatorship impossible but democracy unbearable.

It's always cool on the airplane when people are watching "SVU." It's funny. And it's always the reruns.

It's the ultimate pinnacle of stand-up to have an hour on HBO, but way more people see Comedy Central and they've been good to me.

Television: The word is half Greek, half Latin. No good can come of it.

My dog watches me on TV. So, if I may take this opportunity, "No! No! No!"

'True Life: I Have A Hot Mom' is easily my favorite True Life.

The longest word in the english language is the one that follows the phrase, 'And now a word from our sponsor'.

Leisure time Children in Italy enjoy similar pastimes to young people from elsewhere in Europe. There are many television channels to watch, and pop music and comic strips also are popular. Watching soccer is a national passion, for both men and women. Young boys, such as these from Turin, are often seen in the parks and alleys, practicing their skills.

How often have we turned on the television and heard the host say, "Tonight we will be talking about faith versus science. Our first guest is a former University of Oxford professor, evolutionary biologist, and bestselling author. He believes that science, not faith, holds the answers to all questions. On the other side of the aisle we have Joe Smith, who will speak for the legitimacy of faith and Christianity. Joe homeschools his kids, thinks Oprah is the Antichrist,

His day-to-day life was fairly frivolous and lazy and laid-back. It was watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer with a bunch of cats hanging on his shoulders and maybe reading a book at the same time or doing a crossword puzzle." - Ken Morton, Edward Gorey's first cousin once removed, on Gorey's daily routines.

I'm annoyed by the lack of smoking on TV as well. It's terrible. It's funny seeing old interviewers lighting up, the likes of Russell Harty pulling on a Three Castles or a State Express or a Churchman Full Strength or a Passing Cloud. I think it's a shame that we don't get to see this any more. We should have more ashtrays on morning TV and presenters wheezing.

At the time, Sills said, "the main thing we experienced was the repression of any kind of deviant behavior under the guise of anti-Communism." None of them could understand why there weren't more people, especially artists, fighting it. "A pall of McCarthyism lay over the land," said Bernie Sahlins, a producer at Playwrights, "and all you heard on TV were mother-in-law jokes.

Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television'.

Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have people all across the country know about it.

No benign deity plucks television news show hosts from their desks in the prime of life and then hastily compensates their friends and family by displays of irradiated droplets in the sky.