Television Quotes

Everyone has a purpose in life. Perhaps yours is watching television.

David Letterman

There are, however, people in this world who seldom pick up a newspaper, people who, when watching television, sneer in displeasure and change channels at the first glimpse of an anchorperson. While such willfully uninformed citizens are rare, emerging from seclusion only to serve on juries in trials of great national significance, they do exist.

Joe Keenan

Television is more interesting than people. If it were not, we would have people standing in the corners of our rooms.

Alan Corenk

The human race is faced with a cruel choice work or daytime television.

Unknown

A computer terminal is not some clunky old television with a typewriter in front of it. It is an interface where the mind and body can connect with the universe and move bits of it about. from Mostly Harmless.

Douglas Noel Adams

Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.

T. S. Eliot

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 Vonnegut

Television is democracy at its ugliest.

Paddy Chayefsky

Television A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.

Ernie Kovacs

Imitation is the sincerest form of television.

Fred Allen

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 David Eisenhowe

Television has brought murder back into the home - - where it belongs.

Alfred Hitchcock

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 Vonnegut, "Cold Turkey", In These Times, May 10, 2004

Television is simultaneously blamed, often by the same people, for worsening the world and for being powerless to change it.

Clive James

We are drawn to our television sets each April the way we are drawn to the scene of an accident.

Vincent Canby, on the Academy Awards

I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.

Groucho Marx

The car trip can draw the family together, as it was in the days before television when parents and children actually talked to each other.

Andrew H. Malcolm

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

Groucho Marx

Television: chewing gum for the eyes.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.

Rita Mae Brown

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.

Walter Slezak

Virtual Reality is like mainlining television.

William Gibson

Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.

Ann Landers

My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.

Peter De Vries

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 Carte

Television is the first truly democratic culture - - The first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want.

Clive Barnes

It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.

Rod Serling

I find women with well developed flesh very attractive. The scrawny little things doing commercials on my television set are slightly repulsive - - Like famine victims.

Dana Hatch

Television is the first truly democratic culture - The first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want.

Clive Barnes

The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime television.

Unknown

The trouble was, all people saw on television were a few of my outspoken supporters out front and they came away thinking that was me.

George Stanley McGovern

The great thing about television is that if something important happens anywhere in the world, day or night, you can always change the channel.

From "Taxi".

Television is the triumph of machine over people.

Fred Allen

Television has raised writing to a new low.

Samuel Goldwyn

Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.

Alfred Hitchcock

The whole problem with news on television comes down to this: all the words uttered in an hour of news coverage could be printed on page of a newspaper. And the world cannot be understood in one page.

Neil Postman

Television is chewing gum for the eyes.

Unknown