Quotes on television
Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.
Hitchcock, Alfred
We can put it in its proper perspective by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books.
Hutchins, Robert M.
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.
Bradbury, Ray
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.
Wiesel, Elie
If the television craze continues with the present level of programs, we are destined to have a nation of morons.
Marsh, Daniel
There are days when any electrical appliance in the house, including the vacuum cleaner, seems to offer more entertainment possibilities than the TV set.
Horne, Harriet van
Television is an anesthetic for the pain of the modern world.
Alauda, Astrid
All television is children's television.
Adler, Richard P.
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.
Barry, Dave
Television has raised writing to a new low.
Goldwyn, Samuel
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.
Adams, Joey
I have had my television aerials removed. It is the moral equivalent of a prostate operation.
Muggeridge, Malcolm
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.
Genem Baylos
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.
Murrow, Edward R.
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.
White, E. B.
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.
White, E. B.
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.
Allen, Fred
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.
Tomlin, Lily
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.
Singer, Jerome
TV a clever contraction derived from the words Terrible Vaudeville.
Ace, Goodman
I generally find television annoying because I'm a daydreamer and most shows only distract me from the plays being acted in my own mind. I know a show is good when it outperforms my daydreams and is something I could've never come up with myself, therefore I'm mesmerized. I like to say I hate television, but when it's good I love it.
Northstrum, Ed
If it weren't for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we'd still be eating frozen radio dinners.
Carson, Johnny
Imagine what it would be like if TV actually were good. It would be the end of everything we know.
Minksy, Marvin
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.
Waters, John
Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.
Brown, Rita Mae
So long as there's a jingle in your head, television isn't free.
Love, Jason
Television was not intended to make human beings vacuous, but it is an emanation of their vacuity.
Muggeridge, Malcolm
In Beverley Hills, they don't throw their garbage away - they make it into television shows.
Allen, Woody