Famous Quotes, Quotation and Sayings

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

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

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

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, "Adding Insult to Injury,"

Your cable television is experiencing difficulties. Please do not panic. Resist the temptation to read or talk to loved ones. Do not attempt sexual relations, as years of TV radiation have left your genitals withered and useless. ~ Matt Groening,

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

What compels you to stare, night after night, at all the glittering hokum that has been deliberately put together for you? ~ J.B. Priestley

So long as there’s a jingle in your head, television isn’t free. ~ Jason Love

I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can’t stop eating peanuts. ~ Orson Welles

The smallest bookstore still contains more ideas of worth than have been presented in the entire history of television. ~ Andrew Ross

Television has raised writing to a new low. ~ Samuel Goldwyn

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

Theatre is life. Cinema is art. Television is furniture. ~ Author Unknown

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

I could have been a doctor, but there were too many good shows on TV. ~ Jason Love

Do you realize if it weren’t for Edison we’d be watching TV by candlelight? ~ Al Boliska

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

I have had my television aerials removed. It is the moral equivalent of a prostate operation. ~ Malcolm Muggeridge

[T]elevision’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

If the television craze continues with the present level of programs, we are destined to have a nation of morons. ~ Daniel Marsh

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

Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they’re scraping the top of the barrel. ~ Gore Vidal

All television is children’s television. ~ Richard P. Adler

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

The marvels – of film, radio, and television – are marvels of one-way communication, which is not communication at all. ~ Milton Mayer

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

Philo began laying out his vision for what television could become. Above all else… television would become the world’s greatest teaching tool. Illiteracy would be wiped out. The immediacy of television was the key. As news happened viewers would watch it unfold live; no longer would we have to rely on people interpreting and distorting the news for us. We would be watching sporting events and symphony orchestras. Instead of going to the movies, the movies would come to us. Television would also bring about world peace. If we were able to see people in other countries and learn about our differences, why would there be any misunderstandings? War would be a thing of the past. ~ Evan I. Schwartz,

Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television. ~ Rita Mae Brown

Imagine what it would be like if TV actually were good. It would be the end of everything we know. ~Marvin Minksy

In Beverley Hills, they don’t throw their garbage away – they make it into television shows. ~ Woody Allen

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

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

I suppose I should get a VCR, but the only thing I like about television is its ephemerality. ~ P.J. O’Rourke

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

The same media people that claim violence on TV doesn’t influence people, are perfectly willing to sell you advertising time. ~ Author Unknown

TV a clever contraction derived from the words Terrible Vaudeville. ~ Goodman Ace

I have come to the feeling about television the way I do about hamburgers: I eat a lot of hamburgers and I don’t remember a single one of them. ~ John Barrow

The triumph of machine over people. ~ Fred Allen

I have never seen a bad television program, because I refuse to. God gave me a mind, and a wrist that turns things off. ~ Jack Paar

If it weren’t for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we’d still be eating frozen radio dinners. ~Johnny Carson

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

When television came roaring in after the war (World War II) they did a little school survey asking children which they preferred and why – television or radio. And there was this 7-year-old boy who said he preferred radio "because the pictures were better." ~ Alistair Cooke

All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching? ~ Nicholas Johnson

I wish there was a knob on the TV so you could turn up the intelligence. They got one marked "brightness" but it don’t work, does it? ~ Leo Anthony Gallagher

How can you put on a meaningful drama when, every fifteen minutes, proceedings are interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits with toilet paper? ~ Rod Serling, quoted in

Sex on television can’t hurt you unless you fall off. ~ Author Unknown

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

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

Television has changed a child from an irresistible force to an immovable object. ~ Author Unknown

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

If you came and you found a strange man… teaching your kids to punch each other, or trying to sell them all kinds of products, you’d kick him right out of the house, but here you are; you come in and the TV is on, and you don’t think twice about it. ~ Jerome Singer

Television: A medium – so called because it is neither rare nor well done. ~ Ernie Kovacs

Today, watching television often means fighting, violence and foul language – and that’s just deciding who gets to hold the remote control. ~ Donna Gephart

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

Television! Teacher, mother, secret lover. ~ Homer Simpson,

Television is simply automated day-dreaming. ~ Lee Lovinger

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

It’s the menace that everyone loves to hate but can’t seem to live without. ~ Paddy Chayevsky

What is being lost is the magic of the word. I am not an image person. Imagery belongs to another civilization: the caveman. Caveman couldn’t express himself so he put images on walls. ~ Elie Wiesel

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

Time has convinced me of one thing. Television is for appearing on, not looking at. ~ Noel Coward

We can put it in its proper perspective by supposing that Gutenberg’s great invention had been directed at printing only comic books. ~ Robert M. Hutchins,

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. ~ Author Unknown

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,

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,

Television: chewing gum for the eyes. ~ Frank Lloyd Wright

Television keeps the masses occupied. What if everyone decided they wanted to make something of their lives? Television keeps the competition down and keeps more criminals off the street. What if everyone decided to go to law school or medical school? It would sure make it tough on the rest of us. ~ Jim Urbanovich

Television was not intended to make human beings vacuous, but it is an emanation of their vacuity. ~Malcolm Muggeridge

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 R. Murrow

Television is an anesthetic for the pain of the modern world. ~ Astrid Alauda

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. ~ Author Unknown, from

Ninety-eight percent of American homes have TV sets, which means the people in the other 2% have to generate their own sex and violence. ~ Attributed to Gene Baylos