Television Quotes

Christianity, boring? So is television...if we don't plug in.

Many of our own people here in this country do not ask about computers, telephones and television sets. They ask - when will we get a road to our village.

Soon, if we are not prudent, millions of people will be watching each other starve to death through expensive television sets

This is Manchester, we do things differently here.

Cathode-ray tubes are the most important items in a television receiver.

One of the basic troubles with radio and television news is that both instruments have grown up as an incompatible combination of show business, advertising and news. Each of the three is a rather bizarre and demanding profession. And when you get all three under one roof, the dust never settles.

Many of you already read my writings indicating that TV is the new god. There is a little thing I neglected to mention up until now, television is the major mainstream infiltration for the new satanic religion.

Twin Peaks was special because it was so groundbreaking. In the early 90s it really changed television a lot. A bunch of weird shows, like Northern Exposure, came on after that.

Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry.

Television is a gift of God, and God will hold those who utilize his divine instrument accountable to him.

I have as much artistic freedom in my television work as I have in my films.

Beautifully shot, impeccably paced, it was a clear, unrelenting look at the National Trust, its friends and enemies, and it makes you want to burn your passport and beg the Luftwaffe to have another go.

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.

Fox News is hated because they're elitists, and the worst winners television's ever seen.

We can't just have mainstream behavior on television in a free society, we have to make sure we see the whole panorama of human behavior.

Television sounded really different than the Ramones sounded really different than us sounded really different than Blondie sounded really different than the Sex Pistols

I've really enjoyed my work in television, but the problem for me is the turnover of directors every week.

The Television is the monster of hell.

In television, images are projected at you. You are the screen. The images wrap around you. You are the vanishing point.

There is no hope for television by means of cathode-ray tubes.

It's not listed in the Bible, but my spiritual gift, my specific calling from God, is to be a television talk-show host.

A lot of the things that I like to portray on television are otherwise my real views.

Movies will make you famous; Television will make you rich; But theatre will make you good.

You could tell he (President Ronald Reagan) was an old radio guy. He never once looked at the television monitor.

That crossover of whether it's entertainment or news is the biggest crock of b.s. in television today, because it's all entertainment.

Television is what made It's a Wonderful Life the classic it is today.

Television news is a delicate balance of serving public good and private gain.

I'm very proud of the Rome episode of 'No Reservations' because it violated all the conventional wisdom about making television. You're never, ever supposed to do a food or travel show in black and white.

Television is so influential that when an audience sees you day-in and day-out theres a certain acceptance that sets in; youre no longer a threatening personality. They become more willing to accept whatever you present.

The role of television is the illusion of company, noise. I call it the fifth wall and the second window: the window of illusion.

There are days when any electrical appliance in the house, including the vacuum cleaner, seems to offer more entertainment than the TV set.

Television enjoys a de facto monopoly on what goes into the heads of a significant part of the population and what they think.

Television makes so much at its worst that it can't afford to do its best.

Television allowed me to kick the Hollywood habit of typing an actor in certain roles.

Downton Abbey is the most popular drama in the history of public television. When the whole of the TV universe is fragmenting, that isn't just impressive. It's almost impossible. But here we are.

Those who depend on television as their primary information source are condemned to .... A form of political illiteracy.

What exactly is 'viewer discretion'? If viewers had discretion, most television shows would not be on the air.

What I think is new is the wealth of roles for actual women in television and in film. That's what I think is revolutionary and evolutionary.

I don't know how long a child will remain utterly static in front of the television, but my guess is that it could be well into their thirties.

Richard Nixon... was just offered $2 million by Schick to do a television commercial - for Gillette.

[T]here may be some truth in that if the Arabs have some complaints about my policy towards Israel, they have to realize that the Jews in the U. S. control the entire information and propaganda machine, the large newspapers, the motion pictures, radio and television, and the big companies, and there is a force that we have to take into consideration.

Television: The device that brings into your living room characters you would never allow in your living room.

All things change. The automobiles change every year. [Your] television set gets lighter and smaller and higher definition. All things in the scientific world change. But politicians do not change. They carry old values and they don't even know it.

I'm always amazed that people will actually choose to sit in front of the television and just be savaged by stuff that belittles their intelligence.

There is danger in the concentration of control in the television and radio networks, especially in the large television and radio stations; danger in the concentration of ownership in the press...and danger in the increasing concentration of selection by book publishers and reviewers and by the producers of radio and television programs.

Television is something the Russians invented to destroy American education.

It has been proven that more Americans watch television than any other appliance.

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 a page of a newspaper. And the world cannot be understood in one page.

You are what you do. If you do boring, stupid monotonous work, chances are you'll end up boring, stupid and monotonous. Work is a much better explanation for the creeping cretinization all around us than even such significant moronizing mechanisms as television and education.

The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead station.