Television Quotes

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace. (John Lennon)
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. View quote
Groucho Marx
I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television. View quote
Gore Vidal
The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube. View quote
Norman Mailer
I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts. View quote
Orson Welles
If there's anything unsettling to the stomach, it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives. View quote
Marlon Brando
Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other. View quote
Ann Landers
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? View quote
Federico Fellini
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. View quote
Alfred Hitchcock
Television is becoming a collage - there are so many channels that you move through them making a collage yourself. In that sense, everyone sees something a bit different. View quote
David Hockney
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. (Gore Vidal)
Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from the print of newspapers, the shock waves of television, and the sentimental cheats of the movie screen. View quote
Norman Mailer
The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead station. View quote
William Gibson
News is something that happens that matters to you, which is not most of what we watch on television. View quote
Val Kilmer
So many people treat you like you're a kid so you might as well act like one and throw your television out of the hotel window. View quote
Gerard Way
Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
Television makes so much at its worst that it can't afford to do its best. View quote
Fred W. Friendly
Television was supposed to be a national park. Instead it has become a money machine. It's a commodity now, just like pork bellies. View quote
Fred W. Friendly
Watching television is like taking black spray paint to your third eye. View quote
Bill Hicks
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. View quote
Kurt Vonnegut
Television is chewing gum for the eyes. (Frank Lloyd Wright)
Television has made dictatorship impossible but democracy unbearable. View quote
Shimon Peres
When the stock market crashed, Franklin D. Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the, you know, the princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what happened. View quote
Joe Biden
Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house. View quote
Alfred Hitchcock
Television has brought back murder into the home - where it belongs. View quote
Alfred Hitchcock