Quotes on television
Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.
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Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
We can put it in its proper perspective by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books.
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Robert M. Hutchins Quotes
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.
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Ray Bradbury Quotes
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.
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Elie Wiesel Quotes
If the television craze continues with the present level of programs, we are destined to have a nation of morons.
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Daniel Marsh Quotes
Today, watching television often means fighting, violence and foul language - and that's just deciding who gets to hold the remote control.
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Donna Gephart Quotes
The marvels - of film, radio, and television - are marvels of one-way communication, which is not communication at all.
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Milton Mayer Quotes
There are days when any electrical appliance in the house, including the vacuum cleaner, seems to offer more entertainment possibilities than the TV set.
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Harriet van Horne Quotes
Star Trek fans usually know the metaphors of life better than most mainstream poets.
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Audra Foveo-Alba Quotes
Television is an anesthetic for the pain of the modern world.
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Astrid Alauda Quotes
All television is children's television.
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Richard P. Adler Quotes
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.
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Dave Barry Quotes
Television has raised writing to a new low.
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Samuel Goldwyn Quotes
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.
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Dave Barry Quotes
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.
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Joey Adams Quotes
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.
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Art Buchwald Quotes
Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home.
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David Frost Quotes
I have had my television aerials removed. It is the moral equivalent of a prostate operation.
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Malcolm Muggeridge Quotes
The same media people that claim violence on TV doesn't influence people, are perfectly willing to sell you advertising time.
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Author Unknown Quotes
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.
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Genem Baylos Quotes
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.
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Edward R. Murrow Quotes
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.
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E. B. White Quotes
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.
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E. B. White Quotes
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.
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Fred Allen Quotes
Sometimes, boys and girls would rather watch TV than read. When your teachers say read, they are giving you pretty damn good advice.
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George W. Bush Quotes
I find television to be very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go in the other room and read a book.
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Groucho Marx Quotes
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.
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Author Unknown Quotes
Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general's warning.
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Alan Kay Quotes
Television has changed a child from an irresistible force to an immovable object.
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Author Unknown Quotes
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.
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Matt Groening Quotes
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.
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Jim Urbanovich Quotes
I wish there were a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence. There's a knob called "brightness," but that doesn't work.
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Author Unknown Quotes
I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.
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Orson Welles Quotes
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.
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Lily Tomlin Quotes
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.
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Raymond Chandler Quotes
Time has convinced me of one thing. Television is for appearing on, not looking at.
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Noel Coward Quotes
I suppose I should get a VCR, but the only thing I like about television is its ephemerality.
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P.J. O'Rourke Quotes
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.
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Jerome Singer Quotes
They say that ninety percent of TV is junk. But, ninety percent of everything is junk.
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Gene Roddenberry Quotes
Television: A medium - so called because it is neither rare nor well done.
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Ernie Kovacs Quotes
TV a clever contraction derived from the words Terrible Vaudeville.
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Goodman Ace Quotes
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.
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Ed Northstrum Quotes
If it weren't for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we'd still be eating frozen radio dinners.
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Johnny Carson Quotes
Imagine what it would be like if TV actually were good. It would be the end of everything we know.
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Marvin Minksy Quotes
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.
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John Waters Quotes
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.
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George W. Bush Quotes
Television: chewing gum for the eyes.
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Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.
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Rita Mae Brown Quotes
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."
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Dick Cavett Quotes
So long as there's a jingle in your head, television isn't free.
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Jason Love Quotes
Television was not intended to make human beings vacuous, but it is an emanation of their vacuity.
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Malcolm Muggeridge Quotes
In Beverley Hills, they don't throw their garbage away - they make it into television shows.
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Woody Allen Quotes
Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.
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Ann Landers Quotes
Television is simply automated day-dreaming.
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Lee Lovinger Quotes