Television Quotes
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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. (Quote by - Newton Minnow)
When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what happened.' (Quote by - Joe Biden)
Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object. (Quote by - Laurence J. Peter)
So long as there's a jingle in your head, television isn't free. (Quote by - Jason Love)
All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching? (Quote by - Nicholas Johnson)
Television is the triumph of machine over people. (Quote by - Fred Allen)
Television is now so desparately hungry for material that they're scraping the top of the barrel. (Quote by - Gore Vidal)
Televisionreally does offer still great parts for women, cable in particular. (Quote by - Christine Lahti)
One night I walked home very late and fell asleep in somebody's satellite dish. My dreams were showing up on TV's all over the world. (Quote by - Steven Wright)
Thank God we're living in a country where the sky's the limit, the stores are open late and you can shop in bed thanks to television. (Quote by - Joan Rivers)
The answers to life's problems aren't at the bottom of a bottle: they're on TV. (Quote by - Homer Simpson)
Color television! Bah, I won't believe it until I see it in black and white. (Quote by - Samuel Goldwyn)
Television news is like a lightning flash. It makes a loud noise, lights up everything around it, leaves everything else in darkness and then is suddenly gone. (Quote by - Hodding Carter)
Whenever it's on it's like having somebody in my house that I want to get rid of and they won't leave. I hate the sound of it. All that noise and light coming from a piece of furniture. (Quote by - John Waters)
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. (Quote by - Groucho Marx)
At the moment I'm enjoying a new challenge at the Royal Opera House, but I'm also keen to pursue my interest in television and particularly in science. (Quote by - Deborah Bull )
In general my children refuse to eat anything that hasn't danced in television. (Quote by - Erma Bombeck)
I think Les Moonves is the most highly overrated person in television. (Quote by - Donald Trump)
I think a newspaper should be provocative, stir 'em up, but you can't do that on television. It's just not on. (Quote by - Rupert Murdoch)
I was totally unknown in the television and film industry in Canada. (Quote by - Samantha Bee)
The idea of stardom was difficult to grasp. It was like being schizophrenic; there was her, the woman on television, and the real me. (Quote by - Jessica Savitch)
I do still like television very much, but the theatre does really have something special about it. (Quote by - Sarah Sutton)
Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things. (Quote by - Jean Baudrillard)
Television is more interesting than people. If it were not, we would have people standing in the corners of our rooms. (Quote by - Alan Corenk)
Richard Lloyd of Television is one of my favorite guitarists. His mentor was Jimi Hendrix when he was just 14. Jimi was always pounding everything he knew into that kid. (Quote by - Tina Weymouth)
I might have had trouble saving France in 1946 - I didn't have television then. (Quote by - Charles de Gaulle )
That crossover of whether it's entertainment or news is the biggest crock of b.s. in television today, because it's all entertainment. (Quote by - Vince McMahon)
There was only so much television you could do. (Quote by - Jackie Cooper)
Women didn't want to watch other women on television because they were jealous of their husbands' diverted attention. (Quote by - Jessica Savitch)
I made a rule for myself that the only television things I would do would be my own stories. (Quote by - Nigel Kneale )
My belief is that what comes across on the television is a capture of my enthusiasm and my passion for wildlife. (Quote by - Steve Irwin)
Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home. (Quote by - David Frost)
It gets so boring at home. After all, how many reruns of Abbott and Costello movies can a guy watch on television? (Quote by - Bud Abbott)
I have a new television show in the works, and that is all I can say right now. (Quote by - Angie Stone)
The latest wrinkle is on wrinkles. There is a widespread belief that women can't grow old in television news. (Quote by - Jessica Savitch )
Television is an instrument which can paralyze this country. (Quote by - Gen William C. Westmoreland)
I can't think of a performer who is better on television than in person. (Quote by - Mark Russell)
I read in the newspapers they are going to have 30 minutes of intellectual stuff on television every Monday from 7:30 to 8. to educate America. They couldn't educate America if they started at 6:30. (Quote by - Groucho Marx)
Television! Teacher, mother, secret lover. (Quote by - Homer Simpson)
There is no way you can get people to believe you on screen if they know who you really are through television. (Quote by - Jack Nicholson)
Nothing is really real unless it happens on television. (Quote by - Daniel J. Boorstin)
The one function TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were. (Quote by - David Brinkley)
Anyone who relies exclusively on television for his or her knowledge of the world is making a serious mistake. (Quote by - Steve Powers)
The one good thing about television is the money; you can make a lot more money than in newspapers. (Quote by - Will McDonough)
Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome. (Quote by - T. S. Eliot )
Television news is a delicate balance of serving public good and private gain. (Quote by - Jessica Savitch)
Another possible source of guidance for teenagers is television, but television's message has always been that the need for truth, wisdom and world peace pales by comparison with the need for a toothpaste that offers whiter teeth and fresher breath. (Quote by - Dave Barry)
Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between. (Quote by - David Letterman)
He who is created by television can be destroyed by television. (Quote by - Theodore White)
Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some. (Quote by - Alfred Hitchcock)
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. (Quote by - Kurt Vonnegut)
Book - what they make a movie out of for television. (Quote by - Leonard L. Levinson )
Television keeps the masses occupied. What if everyone decided they wanted to make something of their lives? Television keeps the competition down and keeps more criminals off the street. What if everyone decided to go to law school or medical school? It would sure make it tough on the rest of us. (Quote by - Jim Urbanovich)
Television speeded everything up. (Quote by - Ruth Handler)
Conversation like television set on honeymoon... unnecessary. (Quote by - Peter Sellers )
Imagine what it would be like if TV actually were good. It would be the end of everything we know. (Quote by - Marvin Minksy)
Television: A medium - so called because it is neither rare nor well done. (Quote by - Ernie Kovacs)
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too. (Quote by - Peter De Vries)
The wonderful thing about television is the immediate impact of pictures of current events. (Quote by - Will McDonough)
When television came roaring in after the war (World War II) they did a little school survey asking children which they preferred and why - television or radio. And there was this 7-year-old boy who said he preferred radio because the pictures were better. (Quote by - Alistair Cooke)
As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days. (Quote by - Gore Vidal)
I think my own strengths are in television production. (Quote by - Jim Henson)
Television is for appearing on - not for looking at. (Quote by - Noel Coward)
This isn't brain surgery; it's just television. (Quote by - David Letterman)
Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other. (Quote by - Ann Landers)
Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house. (Quote by - Alfred Hitchcock)
If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight. (Quote by - George Gobel)
Television has a real problem. They have no page two. (Quote by - Art Buchwald)
Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime. (Quote by - Alfred Hitchcock)
Television is chewing gum for the eyes. (Quote by - Frank Loyd Wright)
Each day, the American housewife turns toward television as toward a lover. She feels guilty about it, and well she might, for he's covered with warts and is only after her money. (Quote by - Mignon McLaughlin)
Do you realize if it weren't for Edison we'd be watching TV by candlelight? (Quote by - Al Boliska)
Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking. (Quote by - Nat King Cole)
Look at the declining television coverage. Look at the declining voting rate. Economics and economic news is what moves the country now, not politics. (Quote by - Robert Teeter)
Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing? (Quote by - Samuel Goldwyn)
The writers led by Mike Scully are fantastic. And they're creating original stories that not only don't repeat what we've already done, they also don't repeat anything I've seen on television. (Quote by - Matt Groening)
Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders. (Quote by - Margaret Mead )
Somehow, by just continually pestering the general public by appearing on television, they accepted me and wanted more. (Quote by - Chris Elliott)
Television: chewing gum for the eyes. (Quote by - Frank Lloyd Wright)
Television enables you to be entertained in your home by people you wouldn't have in your home. (Quote by - David Frost)
You get to that age where you're watching a lot of television, and who doesn't want to be on television? (Quote by - Jason Marsden)
It's the first war we've ever fought on the television screen and the first war that our country ever fought where the media had full reign. (Quote by - William Westmoreland)
Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America--not on the battlefields of Vietnam. (Quote by - Marshall McLuhan)
I have had my television aerials removed. It is the moral equivalent of a prostate operation. (Quote by - Malcolm Muggeridge)
Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television. (Quote by - Woody Allen)
In Beverley Hills, they don't throw their garbage away - they make it into television shows. (Quote by - Woody Allen)
You can't fool television viewers with dancing girls and flashing lights. (Quote by - Bob Barker)
Carol Burnett was particularly funny. She swore for the first time on television on Larry Sanders. (Quote by - Garry Shandling)
Imitation is the sincerest form of television. (Quote by - Fred Allen )
When I got my first television set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships. (Quote by - Andy Warhol)
Television is a new medium. It's called a medium because nothing is well-done. (Quote by - Fred Allen)
And I believe that good journalism, good television, can make our world a better place. (Quote by - Christiane Amanpour)
I think it's impossible for any of us not to find television, and the political process at its best on television, compelling. (Quote by - Peter Jennings )
Time has convinced me of one thing. Television is for appearing on, not looking at. (Quote by - Noel Coward)
Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs. (Quote by - Bill Gates)
I got an early education from television. (Quote by - Debra Wilson)
I think that parents only get so offended by television because they rely on it as a babysitter and the sole educator of their kids. (Quote by - Trey Parker and Matt Stone)
Very often some of the religious miracle plays you see on television can be very corny, I find. And so simplistic. (Quote by - Robert Duvall)
Television is something the Russians invented to destroy American education. (Quote by - Paul Erdos)
There are days when any electrical appliance in the house, including the vacuum cleaner, seems to offer more entertainment possibilities than the TV set. (Quote by - Harriet van Horne)
Have you ever seen a candidate talking to a rich person on television? (Quote by - Art Buchwald)
Television is a device that permits people who haven't anything to do to watch people who can't do anything. (Quote by - Fred Allen)
And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was perhaps inevitable. (Quote by - Garry Trudeau)
Television is a gold goose that lays scramble eggs; and it is futile and probably fatal to beat it for not laying caviar. (Quote by - Lee Loevinger)
My mother was watching on television and she doesn't want me to hurt anyone. (Quote by - George Foreman )
Late night television is ready for someone like me... standards have gone to an all-time low. (Quote by - Howard Stern)
Wouldn't it be great if you could only get AIDS by giving money to television preachers? (Quote by - Elayne Boosler)
A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station. (Quote by - Abbie Hoffman)
Television -- a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well-done. (Quote by - Ernie Kovacs)
I did not, like my children and people today, grow up with television as part of my life. (Quote by - Robert Redford )
I have come to the feeling about television the way I do about hamburgers: I eat a lot of hamburgers and I don't remember a single one of them. (Quote by - John Barrow)
I do it because I love acting, I love working, and whether it's radio, television, films, theater, I don't care as long as I can get out there and do it. (Quote by - Joan Collins)
Star Trek fans usually know the metaphors of life better than most mainstream poets. (Quote by - Audra Foveo-Alba)
I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens. (Quote by - Dwight D. Eisenhower)
I hate to mention age, but I come from an era when we weren't consumed by technology and television. (Quote by - Jimmy Buffett)
Television and radio do a wonderful job in focusing attention on the problems of our society. (Quote by - Richard J. Daley )
And also there wasn't much money in television in those days anyhow. (Quote by - Jim Henson)
The smallest bookstore still contains more ideas of worth than have been presented in the entire history of television. (Quote by - Andrew Ross)
It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper. (Quote by - Rod Serling)
I was one of the first generations to watch television. TV exposes people to news, to information, to knowledge, to entertainment. How is it bad? (Quote by - Tom Clancy)
Before I was shot, I always thought that I was more half-there than all-there - I always suspected that I was watching TV instead of living life. Right when I was being shot and ever since, I knew that I was watching television. (Quote by - Andy Warhol)
I had started calling her Lucy shortly after we met; I didn't like the name Lucille. That's how our television show was called I Love Lucy, not Lucille. (Quote by - Desi Arnaz)
We can put it in its proper perspective by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books. (Quote by - Robert M. Hutchins)
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. (Quote by - Clive Barnes)
Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television. (Quote by - Rita Mae Brown)
If I feel in need of sleep, I just open a book or turn on the television. Both are better than any sleeping pill. (Quote by - Ethel Merman )
Year Two is a critical year for any television show. (Quote by - Josh Schwartz)
We owe a lot to Thomas Edison - if it wasn't for him, we'd be watching television by candlelight. (Quote by - Milton Berle)
Today's audience knows more about what's on television than what's in life. (Quote by - Larry Gelbart )
Today, watching television often means fighting, violence and foul language - and that's just deciding who gets to hold the remote control. (Quote by - Donna Gephart)
The only way to do news on television is not to be terrified of it. (Quote by - David Brinkley)
People love coming on television, even if they have to show their miseries. (Quote by - Victoria Abril)
Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television. (Quote by - Rita Mae Brown)
Every movie I've been in has ended up on television. (Quote by - Tony Curtis)
I don't think I miss anything by not watching television. (Quote by - Alexandra Paul)
Television has brought back murder into the home - where it belongs. (Quote by - Alfred Hitchcock)
I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book. (Quote by - Groucho Marx)
Television . (Quote by - a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well-done. (Quote by - Ernie Kovacs)
Television is what made It's a Wonderful Life the classic it is today. (Quote by - Leonard Maltin)
Television is a young person's medium. (Quote by - Bernard Cornwell )
If you came and you found a strange man... teaching your kids to punch each other, or trying to sell them all kinds of products, you'd kick him right out of the house, but here you are; you come in and the TV is on, and you don't think twice about it. (Quote by - Jerome Singer)
How can you put on a meaningful drama when, every fifteen minutes, proceedings are interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits with toilet paper? (Quote by - Rod Serling)
Television: A medium - so called because it is neither rare nor well done. (Quote by - Ernie Kovacs)
The making of television has changed quite a bit. Now you have to do them n cheaper budgets. (Quote by - Bruce Boxleitner )
I don't really get a chance to watch much television. (Quote by - Will Estes)
If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace. (Quote by - John Lennon)
And I believe that you never be limited in what you do, so I like to do movies, I like to do television. (Quote by - Harvey Fierstein )
I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself. (Quote by - Stephen Fry)
Before computers, telephone lines and television connect us, we all share the same air, the same oceans, the same mountains and rivers. We are all equally responsible for protecting them. (Quote by - Julia Louis-Dreyfus)
I'm very wary of news on television. (Quote by - Val Kilmer)
The television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home. (Quote by - David Frost)
I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts. (Quote by - Orson Welles)
Television was not intended to make human beings vacuous, but it is an emanation of their vacuity. (Quote by - Malcolm Muggeridge)
Television is a corporate vulgarity. (Quote by - John Leonard)
Right now, more people enjoy movies, music, television and movies than they do video games. (Quote by - J Allard)
Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar. (Quote by - Edward R. Murrow)
Television is simply automated day-dreaming. (Quote by - Lee Lovinger)
Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general's warning. (Quote by - Alan Kay)
Television saved the movies. The Internet is going to save the news business. (Quote by - Matt Drudge)
Television has raised writing to a new low. (Quote by - Samuel Goldwyn)
I've been doing a lot of music for films and television for quite a few years. (Quote by - Jan Hammer)
The facts of life are that a child who has seen war cannot be compared with a child who doesn't know what war is except from television. (Quote by - Sophia Loren )
Television is a medium because anything well done is rare. (Quote by - Fred Allen)
Sometimes cameras and television are good to people and sometimes they aren't. I don't know if its the way you say it, or how you look. (Quote by - Dan Quayle)
It's the menace that everyone loves to hate but can't seem to live without. (Quote by - Paddy Chayevsky)
I remember growing up with television, from the time it was just a test pattern, with maybe a little bit of programming once in a while. (Quote by - Francis Ford Coppola )
It is impossible to disregard such an important medium as television. We should know how to use it, learn to work in it and express new values in it. (Quote by - Tahar Ben Jelloun)
In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose. (Quote by - Richard M. Nixon )
I'm never at my best on television. There's a row of cameras between you and the audience, and it's very weird, very confusing. (Quote by - Shania Twain)
The nuclear generator of brain sludge is television. (Quote by - Dave Barry )
You know, it is a terrible thing to appear on television, because people think that you actually know what you're talking about. (Quote by - David Attenborough )
I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in all this noise? (Quote by - Federico Fellini)
Gleason became like a mentor of mine. I had Gleason helping me on television, Godfrey on radio. (Quote by - Larry King)
The money is better in films and television. But in terms of acting, theatre is more rewarding. (Quote by - Christopher Eccleston)
I could have been a doctor, but there were too many good shows on TV. (Quote by - Jason Love)
Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any standard but the soft buck. (Quote by - Raymond Chandler)
Every time you think television has hit its lowest ebb, a new program comes along to make you wonder where you thought the ebb was. (Quote by - Art Buchwald)
I find television to be very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go in the other room and read a book. (Quote by - Groucho Marx)
Television is the literature of the illiterate, the culture of the low-brow, the wealth of the poor, the privilage of the underprivilaged, the exclusive club of the excluded masses. (Quote by - Lee Loevinger)
The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little. (Quote by - Ray Bradbury)
The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely. (Quote by - T. S. Eliot)
What is being lost is the magic of the word. I am not an image person. Imagery belongs to another civilization: the caveman. Caveman couldn't express himself so he put images on walls. (Quote by - Elie Wiesel)
Television? The word is half Latin and half Greek. No good can come of it. (Quote by - C.p. Scott)
The Television commercial is the most efficient power-packed capsule of education that appears anywhere on TV. (Quote by - C. L. Gray)
Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it. (Quote by - Alfred Hitchcock)
TV is the triumph of machine over people. (Quote by - Fred Allen)
When I was first starting out, if you were acting on television, it was a real stigma. (Quote by - Christine Lahti)
Nashville was totally different than I ever dreamed. I had only seen the music business on television and been to a couple of concerts. I had no clue. (Quote by - Faith Hill)
They put me on television. And the whole thing broke loose. It was wild, I tell ya for sure. (Quote by - Elvis Presley)
Seeing a murder on television... can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some. (Quote by - Alfred Hitchcock)
They say that ninety percent of TV is junk. But, ninety percent of everything is junk. (Quote by - Gene Roddenberry)
I have never seen a bad television program, because I refuse to. God gave me a mind, and a wrist that turns things off. (Quote by - Jack Paar)
Everything is for the eye these days - TV, Life, Look, the movies. Nothing is just for the mind. The next generation will have eyeballs as big as cantaloupes and no brain at all. (Quote by - Fred Allen)
An invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home. (Quote by - David Frost)
Why something in the public interest such as television news can be fought over, like a chain of hamburger stands, eludes me. (Quote by - Jimmy Breslin)
In day-to-day commerce, television is not so much interested in the business of communications as in the business of delivering audiences to advertisers. People are the merchandise, not the shows. The shows are merely the bait. (Quote by - Les Brown)
If there's anything unsettling to the stomach, it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives. (Quote by - Marlon Brando)
If it weren't for the fact that the TV set and the refrigerator are so far apart, some of us wouldn't get any exercise at all. (Quote by - Joey Adams)
Television is an anesthetic for the pain of the modern world. (Quote by - Astrid Alauda)
All television is children's television. (Quote by - Richard P. Adler)
Unlike productions in the other arts, all television shows are born to destroy two other shows. (Quote by - Les Brown)
If you read a lot of books, you're considered well-read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you're not considered well-viewed. (Quote by - Lily Tomlin)
I suppose I should get a VCR, but the only thing I like about television is its ephemerality. (Quote by - P.J. O'Rourke)
The marvels - of film, radio, and television - are marvels of one-way communication, which is not communication at all. (Quote by - Milton Mayer)
You make a choice whether or not to turn that TV on. We didn't even have a television in the house. (Quote by - Christine Baranski)
What compels you to stare, night after night, at all the glittering hokum that has been deliberately put together for you? (Quote by - J.B. Priestley)
If it weren't for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we'd still be eating frozen radio dinners. (Quote by - Johnny Carson)
If you surveyed a hundred typical middle-aged Americans, I bet you'd find that only two of them could tell you their blood types, but every last one of them would know the theme song from The Beverly Hillbillies. (Quote by - Dave Barry)
Dealing with network executives is like being nibbled to death by ducks. (Quote by - Eric Sevareid)
If your working television sits on top of your non-working television, you might be a redneck. (Quote by - Jeff Foxworthy)
Anyone who watches golf on television would enjoy watching the grass grow on the greens. (Quote by - Andy Rooney)
Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative. (Quote by - Kurt Vonnegut)
We cannot blame the schools alone for the dismal decline in SAT verbal scores. When our kids come home from school do they pick up a book or do they sit glued to the tube, watching music videos? Parents, don't make the mistake of thinking your kid only learns between 9:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. (Quote by - George Bush)
Bill Hanna and I owe an awful lot to television, but we both got our start and built the first phase of our partnership in the movies. (Quote by - Joseph Barbera)
