Television Quotes - page 7

Humans are very good at dreaming, although you'd never know it from your television. (Carl Sagan)
In fact, a very similar phrase was invented to account for the sudden transition of wood, metal, plastic and concrete into an explosive condition, which was "nonlinear, catastrophic structural exasperation," or to put it another way--as a junior cabinet minister did on television the following night in a phrase which was to haunt the rest of his career--the check-in desk had just got "fundamentally fed up with being where it was. View quote
Douglas Adams
One of the big secrets of finding time is not to watch television. View quote
Bob Keeshan
These television shows that have 14 shots of somebody looking at each other with the wind blowing through their hair drive me insane. View quote
Amy Sherman-Palladino
So, I understand when they make a mistake and everyone at home is throwing their shoe at the television set. View quote
Vanna White
I was sued by a woman who claimed that she became pregnant because she watched me on television and I bent her contraceptive coil. View quote
Uri Geller
I have to paint fast on television because of the limited time, but I don't want people to see what I'm showing them as work, something to worry and fret over. This is supposed to be fun. View quote
Bob Ross
Today's biggest headlines are stories about people who thought they were doing something that was secret: Jesse Jackson's secret girlfriend and child, Monica Lewinski's private meetings with the president and confidential girl talk with Linda Tripp. Just think of the news stories we've watched on television... View quote
Ted Haggard
Here in the UK, we've now got an evangelical television channel - it's the kind of thing that will be very familiar to everyone in the United States, especially if you've ever turned on your TV set on a Sunday morning, and seen one holy man after another, urging you to send money so that Jesus can buy a new Cadillac. Apparently, Jesus can't save the world until he's been properly kitted out with a million-dollar mansion, and a private jet - some small print in the Gospels that we must have missed. View quote
Pat Condell
I am a Black revolutionary woman, and because of this i have been charged with and accused of every alleged crime in which a woman was believed to have participated. The alleged crimes in which only men were supposedly involved, i have been accused of planning. They have plastered pictures alleged to be me in post offices, airports, hotels, police cars, subways, banks, television, and newspapers. They have offered over fifty thousand dollars in rewards for my capture and they have issued orders to shoot on sight and shoot to kill. View quote
Assata Shakur
The physical lot of surviving workers had notably improved, with unemployment insurance, social security, and the new health services, while their children's school education was assured by the government-operated schools: in addition, they had, for intellectual or emotional stimulus and diversion, the radio and the television. But the work itself was no longer as various, as interesting, or as sustaining to the personality... (Lewis Mumford)
Television is more interesting than people. If it were not, we would have people standing in the corners of our rooms. View quote
Alan Coren
The censorship is such on television in the U.S. that films like mine don't stand a chance. View quote
John Pilger
When I finished the series, I wasn't going to do television again. I never wanted to do television to begin with, and I was so exhausted by the process that I was wary of being in front of the camera again. View quote
Gillian Anderson
Masturbation is the thinking man's television. View quote
Christopher Hampton
People say that it was degrading for an Olympic champion to run against a horse, but what was I supposed to do? I had four gold medals, but you can't eat four gold medals. There was no television, no big advertising, no endorsements then. Not for a black man, anyway. View quote
Jesse Owens
Since it was too difficult to get into the Screen Actor's Guild in New York, I moved to Miami in 1982 and started a successful career as a television commercial actress, obtaining my SAG card there. View quote
Donna Rice
I would never see a good movie for the first time on television. View quote
Jean-Luc Godard
News - communicating news and ideas, I guess - is my passion. And giving people alternatives so that they have two papers to read (and) alternative television channels. View quote
Rupert Murdoch
If you believe that your thoughts originate inside your brain, do you also believe that television shows are made inside your television set? View quote
Warren Ellis
We're all too busy working, entertaining ourselves With forty hours, television and prescription pills Well, I take two a day to help my brain behave It never does, but who's to say? At least my doctor gets paid. (Conor Oberst)
The work of television is to establish false contexts and to chronicle the unraveling of existing contexts; finally, to establish the context of no-context and to chronicle it. View quote
George W. S. Trow
By ignoring a lot of American culture you can write more interesting stories. Unfortunately, if you were writing about America as it is, you'd be writing about a lot of people sitting in front of television sets. View quote
Richard Russo
The President has so much good publicity potential that hasn't been exploited. He should just sit down one day and make a list of all the things that people are embarrassed to do that they shouldn't be embarrassed to do, and then do them all on television. View quote
Andy Warhol
To complain about how the media are dominated by liberals, Limbaugh has an hour a day on network television, an hour on cable, and a radio show syndicated by over 600 stations. View quote
Michael Parenti