Television Quotes - page 3

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)

Yes, for most people nowadays television is their only contact with the world beyond their work.

John Brunner

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

Television? The word is half Greek, half Latin. No good can come of it.

C. P. Scott

There is no question but that if Jesus Christ, or a great prophet from another religion, were to come back today, he would find it virtually impossible to convince anyone of his credentials despite the fact that the vast evangelical machine on American television is predicated on His imminent return among us sinners.

Peter Ustinov

We owe a lot to Thomas Edison-if it wasn't for him, we'd be watching television by candlelight.

Milton Berle

People talk about that catch and, I've said this many times, that I've made better catches than that many times in regular season. But of course in my time, you didn't have a lot of television during the regular season. A lot of people didn't see me do a lot of things.

Willie Mays

Violence and smut are of course everywhere on the airwaves. You cannot turn on your television without seeing them, although sometimes you have to hunt around.

Dave Barry

The young watch television twenty-four hours a day, they don't read and they rarely listen. This incessant bombardment of images has developed a hypertrophied eye condition that's turning them into a race of mutants. They should pass a law for a total reeducation of the young, making children visit the Galleria Borgese on a daily basis.

Federico Fellini

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

Alfred Hitchcock

I walk through rooms of the dead, streets of the dead, cities of the dead: men without eyes, men without voices; men with manufactured feelings and standard reactions; men with newspaper brains, television souls and high school ideals. (Charles Bukowski)

I want to say this to the television audience. I made my mistakes, but in all of my years of public life, I have never profited, never profited from public service. I have earned every cent. And in all of my years of public life, I have never obstructed justice. And I think, too, that I can say that in my years of public life, that I welcome this kind of examination because people have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook. I've earned everything I've got.

Richard Nixon

Television: A medium. So called because it's neither rare nor well done.

Ernie Kovacs

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

I've had to adapt my wardrobe to my various roles, both at the office, as a mom, and for television. When I shop for the season I look for pieces that will suit every facet of my daily life, not just one single occasion.

Nina Garcia

My parents had this relationship that was really terrifying. I mean, the level of hatred that they had, and the level of physical abuse - my mother would beat up my father, basically - and I think I was drawn to images on television that were bright and reflective.

Augusten Burroughs

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

Peter De Vries

When I was your age, television was called books.

William Goldman

Television is such an evolving medium.

Chris Pratt

Theatrically seeing a movie with a group of people and having a collective experience has an authenticity that you can't get with your big screen television.

Christine Vachon

Conservatives sense a link between television and drugs, but they do not grasp the nature of this connection. (Christopher Lasch)

I don't know why men are so fascinated with television and I think it has something to do with - if I may judge from my own father, who used to sit and stare at the TV while my mother was speaking to him - I think that's a man's way of tuning out.

Garry Shandling

There is a certain moment in the film when the son is in the nursing home and he goes to the television and turns it off because he sees himself in the image.

Atom Egoyan

I did 125 films, and over 100 television shows, and you've never seen the same character twice.

Brion James

The making of television has changed quite a bit. Now you have to do them n cheaper budgets.

Bruce Boxleitner

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