Television Quotations
Authors that have more than 2 quotes:
Fred Allen,
David Frost
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| If it weren't for the fact that the TV set and the refrigerator are so far apart, some of us wouldn't get any exercise at all. |
| - Joey Adams |
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| Imitation is the sincerest form of television. |
| - Fred Allen |
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| Television is a new medium. It's called a medium because nothing is well-done. |
| - Fred Allen |
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| Television is the triumph of machine over people. |
| - Fred Allen |
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| The triumph of machine over people. |
| - Fred Allen |
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| In Beverley Hills, they don't throw their garbage away - they make it into television shows. |
| - Woody Allen |
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| Everything is for the eye these days - TV, Life, Look, the movies. Nothing is just for the mind. The next generation will have eyeballs as big as cantaloupes and no brain at all. |
| - Fred Allen |
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| TV. If kids are entertained by two letters, imagine the fun they'll have with twenty-six. Open your child's imagination. Open a book. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| I wish there were a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence. There's a knob called "brightness," but that doesn't work. |
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| Sex on television can't hurt you unless you fall off. |
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| Television has changed a child from an irresistible force to an immovable object. |
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| The same media people that claim violence on TV doesn't influence people, are perfectly willing to sell you advertising time. |
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| Theatre is life. Cinema is art. Television is furniture. |
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| TV will never be a serious competitor for radio because people must sit and keep their eyes glued on a screen; the average American family hasn't time for it. |
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| If you surveyed a hundred typical middle-aged Americans, I bet you'd find that only two of them could tell you their blood types, but every last one of them would know the theme song from The Beverly Hillbillies. |
| - Dave Barry |
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| Another possible source of guidance for teenagers is television, but television's message has always been that the need for truth, wisdom and world peace pales by comparison with the need for a toothpaste that offers whiter teeth and fresher breath. |
| - Dave Barry |
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| Do you realize if it weren't for Edison we'd be watching TV by candlelight? |
| - Al Boliska |
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| 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. |
| - Ray Bradbury |
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| Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television. |
| - Rita Mae Brown |
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| Every time you think television has hit its lowest ebb, a new type program comes along to make you wonder where you thought the ebb was. |
| - Art Buchwald |
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| We cannot blame the schools alone for the dismal decline in SAT verbal scores. When our kids come home from school do they pick up a book or do they sit glued to the tube, watching music videos? Parents, don't make the mistake of thinking your kid only learns between 9:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. |
| - George Bush |
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| If it weren't for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we'd still be eating frozen radio dinners. |
| - Johnny Carson |
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| 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 |
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| Why are sex and violence always linked? I'm afraid they'll blur together in people's minds - sexandviolence - until we can't tell them apart. I expect to hear a newscaster say, "The mob became unruly and the police were forced to resort to sex." |
| - Dick Cavett |
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| Television's perfect. You turn a few knobs, a few of those mechanical adjustments at which the higher apes are so proficient, and lean back and drain your mind of all thought. And there you are watching the bubbles in the primeval ooze. You don't have to concentrate. You don't have to react. You don't have to remember. You don't miss your brain because you don't need it. Your heart and liver and lungs continue to function normally. Apart from that, all is peace and quiet. You are in the man's nirvana. And if some poor nasty minded person comes along and say you look like a fly on a can of garbage, pay him no mind. He probably hasn't got the price of a television set. |
| - Raymond Chandler |
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| The publishers and others should quit worrying about losing customers to TV. The guy who can sit through a trio of deodorant commercials to look at Flashgun Casey or swallow a flock of beer and loan-shark spiels in order to watch a couple of fourth-rate club fighters rub noses on the ropes is not losing any time from book reading. |
| - Raymond Chandler |
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| It's the menace that everyone loves to hate but can't seem to live without. |
| - Paddy Chayevsky |
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| Television is not the Truth. Television is god-damned amusement park. Television is a circus, a carnival, a traveling troupe of acrobats, storytellers, dancers, singers, jugglers, sideshow freaks, lion tamers and football players. We're in the boredom killing business. |
| - Paddy Chayevsky |
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| Television is for appearing on - not for looking at. |
| - Noël Coward |
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| Time has convinced me of one thing. Television is for appearing on, not looking at. |
| - Noël Coward |
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| I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens. |
| - Dwight D. Eisenhower |
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| Television enables you to be entertained in your home by people you wouldn't have in your home. |
| - David Frost |
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| Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home. |
| - David Frost |
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| The television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home. |
| - David Frost |
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| Television has raised writing to a new low. |
| - Samuel Goldwyn |
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| 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. |
| - Alfred Hitchcock |
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| Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it. |
| - Alfred Hitchcock |
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| There are days when any electrical appliance in the house, including the vacuum cleaner, seems to offer more entertainment possibilities than the TV set. |
| - Harriet van Horne |
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| We can put it in its proper perspective by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books. |
| - Robert Maynard Hutchins |
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| All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching? |
| - Nicholas Johnson |
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| Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general's warning. |
| - Alan Kay |
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| Television: A medium - so called because it is neither rare nor well done. |
| - Ernie Kovacs |
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| Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other. |
| - Ann Landers |
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| Television is a gold goose that lays scramble eggs; and it is futile and probably fatal to beat it for not laying caviar. |
| - Lee Loevinger |
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| Television is simply automated day-dreaming. |
| - Lee Loevinger |
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| I find television to be very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go in the other room and read a book. |
| - Groucho Marx |
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| I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. |
| - Groucho Marx |
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| Each day, the American housewife turns toward television as toward a lover. She feels guilty about it, and well she might, for he's covered with warts and is only after her money. |
| - Mignon McLaughlin |
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| Imagine what it would be like if TV actually were good. It would be the end of everything we know. |
| - Marvin Minksy |
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| I have had my television aerials removed. It is the moral equivalent of a prostate operation. |
| - Malcolm Muggeridge |
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| Television was not intended to make human beings vacuous, but it is an emanation of their vacuity. |
| - Malcolm Muggeridge |
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| Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar. |
| - Edward Roscoe Murrow |
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| I suppose I should get a VCR, but the only thing I like about television is its ephemerality. |
| - P.J. O'Rourke |
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| What compels you to stare, night after night, at all the glittering hokum that has been deliberately put together for you? |
| - J.B. Priestley |
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| If you read a lot of books, you're considered well-read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you're not considered well-viewed. |
| - Lily Tomlin |
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| Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they're scraping the top of the barrel. |
| - Gore Vidal |
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| 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. |
| - Kurt, Jr. Vonnegut |
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| Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative. |
| - Kurt, Jr. Vonnegut |
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| My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too. |
| - Peter De Vries |
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| Whenever it's on it's like having somebody in my house that I want to get rid of and they won't leave. I hate the sound of it. All that noise and light coming from a piece of furniture. |
| - John Waters |
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| I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts. |
| - Orson Welles |
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| 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 a new and unbearable disturbance of the modern peace, or a saving radiance in the sky. We shall stand or fall by television - of that I am quite sure. |
| - E.B. White |
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| Television hangs on the questionable theory that whatever happens anywhere should be sensed everywhere. If everyone is going to be able to see everything, in the long run all sights may lose whatever rarity value they once possessed, and it may well turn out that people, being able to see and hear practically everything, will be specially interested in almost nothing. |
| - E.B. White |
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| Television: chewing gum for the eyes. |
| - Frank Lloyd Wright |
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| TV is chewing gum for the eyes. |
| - Frank Lloyd Wright |
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