Television Quotes - page 2

Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object. (Laurence J. Peter)
Imitation is the sincerest form of television. View quote
Fred Allen
Watching television in those days was not the same experience as it is today. After years of listening to radio, we found the black-and-white images mesmerizing. View quote
Annette Funicello
Mass communication, radio, and especially television, have attempted, not without success, to annihilate every possibility of solitude and reflection. View quote
Eugenio Montale
I like television. I still believe that television is the most powerful form of communication on Earth - I just hate what is being done with it. View quote
Alton Brown
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. View quote
Groucho Marx
I didn't realize that television has gone through immense changes and has become very progressive. View quote
Kiefer Sutherland
I secretly understood the primitive appeal of the hearth. Television is-its irresistible charm-a fire. View quote
John Updike
On the one hand, the press, television, and movies make heroes of vandals by calling them whiz kids. View quote
Ken Thompson
Television enjoys a de facto monopoly on what goes into the heads of a significant part of the population and what they think. View quote
Pierre Bourdieu
Television is something the Russians invented to destroy American education. (Paul Erdős)
The upbringing of the people, and particularly means of mass influence - the press, radio, television, and film - should be in the hands of people whose good Islamic moral and intellectual authority is indisputable. View quote
Alija Izetbegović
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. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
Television is of great educational value. It teaches you while still young how to (a) kill, (b) rob, (c) embezzle, (d) shoot, (e) poison, and, generally speaking, (f) how to grow up into a Wild West outlaw or gangster by the time you leave school. View quote
George Mikes
We think basically you watch television to turn your brain off, and you work on your computer when you want to turn your brain on. View quote
Steve Jobs
Every now and then, when you're onstage, you hear the best sound a player can hear. It's a sound you can't get in movies or in television. It is the sound of a wonderful, deep silence that means you've hit them where they live. View quote
Shelley Winters
I'm always amazed that people will actually choose to sit in front of the television and just be savaged by stuff that belittles their intelligence. View quote
Alice Walker
Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television. View quote
Woody Allen
In Beverly Hills... they don't throw their garbage away. They make it into television shows. View quote
Woody Allen
When I grew up there was no web, blogging or tweeting. In fact, where I grew up there was not even television! I met a lot of my friends in school and in college, and they are still my friends today. View quote
Indra Nooyi
isn't qualified to play a Supreme Court justice on 'The West Wing,' (television show) let alone to be a real one. (Ann Coulter)
I don't think I miss anything by not watching television. View quote
Alexandra Paul
Television is for appearing on, not looking at. View quote
Noël Coward
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. View quote
Art Buchwald
To me, torture would be watching sports on television. View quote
Quentin Tarantino