Television Quotes - page 6

The factors that laid low so whooping and puissant an empire as the old Hollywood are many. I can think of a score, including the barbarian hordes of Television. But there is one that stands out for me in the post-mortem.... The factor had to do with the basis of movie-making: ‘Who shall be in charge of telling the story.' (Ben Hecht)
Every generation wants to be the last. Every generation hates the next trend in music they can't understand. We hate to give up the reins of our culture. To find our own music playing in elevators. The ballad for our revolution, turned into background music for a television commercial. To find our generation's clothes and hair suddenly retro. View quote
Chuck Palahniuk
Did you ever think about life as a metaphor for television. View quote
Chuck Palahniuk
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. View quote
Chuck Palahniuk
Anyone afraid of what he thinks television does to the world is probably just afraid of the world. View quote
Clive James
A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station, not the factory. It concentrates its energy on infiltrating and changing the image system. View quote
Abbie Hoffman
For most people, there are only two places in the world. Where they live and their TV set. If a thing happens on television, we have every right to find it fascinating, whatever it is. View quote
Don DeLillo
The best that can be said for Norwegian television is that it gives you the sensation of a coma without the worry and inconvenience. View quote
Bill Bryson
If naturalists go to heaven (about which there is considerable ecclesiastical doubt), I hope that I will be furnished with a troop of kakapo to amuse me in the evening instead of television. View quote
Gerald Durrell
If it weren't for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we'd still be eating frozen radio dinners. View quote
Johnny Carson
A human being is like a television set with millions of channels.... We cannot let just one channel dominate us. We have the seed of everything in us, and we have to recover our own sovereignty. (Nhat Hanh)
I believe there's too little patience and context to many of the investigations I read or see on television. View quote
Bob Woodward
Many people have their reputations as reporters and analysts because they are on television, batting around conventional wisdom. A lot of these people have never reported a story. View quote
Bob Woodward
I'm not going to name some of my colleagues who are very well-known for their television presentation, but they wouldn't know new information or how to report a story if it came up and bit them. View quote
Bob Woodward
Soon, if we are not prudent, millions of people will be watching each other starve to death through expensive television sets. View quote
Aneurin Bevan
Educational television should be absolutely forbidden. It can only lead to unreasonable disappointment when your child discovers that the letters of the alphabet do not leap up out of books and dance around with royal-blue chickens. View quote
Fran Lebowitz
Well what a turn-up. From professional footballer to television presenter to green politician. Whatever next? View quote
David Icke
I have no feud, either with my employers, any sponsors, or with the professional critics of radio and television. But I am seized with an abiding fear regarding what these two instruments are doing to our society, our culture and our heritage. View quote
Edward R. Murrow
I have said, and I believe, that potentially we have in this country a free enterprise system of radio and television which is superior to any other. But to achieve its promise, it must be both free and enterprising. There is no suggestion here that networks or individual stations should operate as philanthropies. But I can find nothing in the Bill of Rights or in the Communications Act which says that they must increase their net profits each year, lest the Republic collapse. View quote
Edward R. Murrow
Television will enormously enlarge the eye's range, and, like radio, will advertise the Elsewhere. Together with the tabs, the mags, and the movies, it will insist that we forget the primary and the near in favor of the secondary and the remote. View quote
E. B. White
I believe television is going to be the test of the modern world, and that in this new opportunity to see beyond the range of our vision we shall discover either a new and unbearable disturbance of the general peace or a saving radiance in the sky. We shall stand or fall by television - of that I am quite sure. (E. B. White)
There's so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets? View quote
Dick Cavett
Television is by nature the dominator drug par excellence. Control of content, uniformity of content, repeatability of content make it inevitably a tool of coersion, brainwashing, and manipulation. View quote
Terence McKenna
Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home. View quote
David Frost
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. View quote
Ray Bradbury