Television Quotes - page 10

You're children. Don't you want a home, a family?" "With, like, vitamin-fortified cereal and educational television? (James Patterson)
Saturday morning was their unrestricted television time, and they usually took advantage of it to watch a series of cartoon shows that would certainly have been impossible before the discovery of LSD. View quote
Jeff Lindsay
The television replaced the sound of conversation that was missing from my grandparents' lives. View quote
Jeffrey Eugenides
Television ... the new gladiatorial arena. View quote
Josephine Hart
You know, I'm almost out of the habit of watching episodic television now. View quote
Dick Van Dyke
All through graduate school, instead of having a television I read murder mysteries: Hammett, Chandler, Ruth Rendell, P. D. James. View quote
Donna Leon
Grunge was so self-consciously lowbrow and nonaspirational that it seemed, at first, impervious to the hype and glamour normally applied swiftly to any emerging trend. But sure enough, grunge anthems found their way onto the soundtracks of television commercials, and Dodge Neons were hawked by kids in flannel shirts saying, 'Whatever.' View quote
Douglas Rushkoff
Digital media are biased toward replication and storage. Our digital photos practically upload and post themselves on Facebook, and our most deleted e-mails tend to resurface when we least expect it. Yes, everything you do in the digital realm may as well be broadcast on prime-time television and chiseled on the side of the Parthenon. View quote
Douglas Rushkoff
I did a film very quickly, and then a lot of work for television, and then I did stage work. View quote
Isabelle Huppert
I mean, there are some amazing storytelling being done on the small screen right now. That's what so cool about being in television right now. Studios, networks are starting to throw more resources, better writers, more production values... and to be part of that is awesome. View quote
Ian Somerhalder
I write for a certain sphere of readers in the United States who on average watch seven and a half hours of multichannel television per day. (Jerzy Kosinski)
After 30 years of television, I want to play more than I used to. View quote
Carol Vorderman
I was inspired by a lot of people when I was young. Every band that came through town, to the theater, or the dance hall. I was at every dance, every night club, listened to every band that came through, because in those days we didn't have MTV, we didn't have television. View quote
Quincy Jones
It is great to add some glamour to the food industry, like television shows have done for the food world and inspiring people to work in the industry. The flip side of that is unfortunately people think that after they get their qualifications, they get their invitation to compete on 'Top Chef.' View quote
Curtis Stone
Gleason became like a mentor of mine. I had Gleason helping me on television, Godfrey on radio. View quote
Larry King
In 1949 there was a new thing called Television, to which my agency and advisers opposed as a performance medium. View quote
Loretta Young
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. View quote
Les Brown
Unlike productions in the other arts, all television shows are born to destroy two other shows. View quote
Les Brown
You know what I want? The answer is, I truly don't know what I want. I don't want to do a television series. I want to do dramas as well as comedies, but I have no idea what kind or in what order. Just give me the chance at them. View quote
Michael Fox
Very often some of the religious miracle plays you see on television can be very corny, I find. And so simplistic. View quote
Robert Duvall
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. (Hodding Carter)
You have to work years in hit shows to make people sick and tired of you, but you can accomplish this in a few weeks on television. View quote
Walter Slezak
Carol Burnett was particularly funny. She swore for the first time on television on Larry Sanders. View quote
Garry Shandling
It is about this very abstract sense of displacement that he feels the moment he turns off the television. View quote
Atom Egoyan
People love coming on television, even if they have to show their miseries. View quote
Victoria Abril