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Television
- Quotes regarding Television
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- One of television’s great contributions is that it brought murder back into the home, where it belongs.
- 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.
- Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.
- [Television is] like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn’t change people’s habits. It just kept them inside the house.
- I haven't had a TV in 10 years, and I really don't miss it. 'Cause it's always so much more fun to be with people than it ever was to be with a television.
- 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.
- 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?
- 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.
- Who: Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - ), Cold Turkey, In These Times, May 10, 2004
- 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.
- Who: Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - ), Cold Turkey, In These Times, May 10, 2004
Attributed
- It used to be that we in films were the lowest form of art. Now we have something to look down on. ~ Billy Wilder
- Television is called a medium because it is neither rare or well done ~ variously attributed
- Television is for appearing on, not looking at. ~ Noel Coward
- TV is like taking black spray paint to your third eye. ~ Bill Hicks
- Television is more interesting than people. If it were not, we should have people standing in the corners of our rooms. ~ Alan Coren
- Television is simultaneously blamed, often by the same people, for worsening the world and for being powerless to change it. ~ Clive James
- The best that can be said for Norwegian television is that it gives you the sensation of a coma without the worry and inconvenience ~ Bill Bryson
- Television has raised writing to a new low. ~ Samuel Goldwyn (1882 - 1974)
- "There are many ways to talk about television. But in a "Business" perspective, let's be realistic : basicaly, TF1's job is to help Coca-Cola selling its product, for instance. To make the advertising message well received, the audience's brain must be available. Our shows are here to make the brain available, to entertain it, to relax it, to prepare it between two messages. What we're selling to Coca-Cola is humain available brain time. Nothing is as difficult as getting this availability" (Patrick Le Lay, CEO of TF1, the main french TV-channel - hope my translation is understandable!)
- "Television is something the Russians invented to destroy American education."
- If there's anything unsettling to the stomach, it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives. ~ Marlon Brando
- Don't you wish there were a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence? There's one marked 'Brightness,' but it doesn't work. ~ Gallagher
- 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. ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Television enables you to be entertained in your home by people you wouldn't have in your home. ~ David Frost
- 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. ~ Rod Serling (1924 - 1975)
- Television? The word is half Greek and half Latin. No good will come of this device. ~ C P Scott 1936
See also
- Television shows
- Quotes about Technology
- Quotes about the Movies
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