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Quotations by Subject: Television
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Television is more interesting than people. If it were not, we would have people standing in the corners of our rooms.: Alan Corenk
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 (1899 - 1980)
Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.: Alfred Hitchcock (1899 - 1980)
Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.: Ann Landers (1918 - 2002)
Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want.: Clive Barnes
The one function TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were.: David Brinkley (1920 - 2003)
Television enables you to be entertained in your home by people you wouldn't have in your home.: David Frost
[The 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
MTV is the lava lamp of the 1980's.: Doug Ferrari
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 (1890 - 1969)
Dealing with network executives is like being nibbled to death by ducks.: Eric Sevareid
TV is chewing gum for the eyes.: Frank Lloyd Wright (1869 - 1959)
Imitation is the sincerest form of television.: Fred Allen (1894 - 1956)
Television is a new medium. It's called a medium because nothing is well-done.: Fred Allen (1894 - 1956), on the radio program The Big Show, Dec. 17, 1950
[Television is] the triumph of machine over people.: Fred Allen (1894 - 1956)
The great thing about television is that if something important happens anywhere in the world, day or night, you can always change the channel.: From "Taxi"
Don't you wish there was a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence? There's one marked 'Brightness,' but it doesn't work.: Gallagher
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.: Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
Television news is like a lightning flash. It makes a loud noise, lights up everything around it, leaves everything else in darkness and then is suddenly gone.: Hodding Carter
In general, watching children's television is a dark and surreal descent into madness where the characters on the screen talk directly to you.: John Green, Vlogbrothers, A Surreal Descent into Madness: Reviewing Childrens TV, 04-10-12
If it weren't for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we'd still be eating frozen radio dinners.: Johnny Carson (1925 - 2005)
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.: Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007), "Cold Turkey", In These Times, May 10, 2004
Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative.: Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007), "Cold Turkey", In These Times, May 10, 2004
If there's anything unsettling to the stomach, it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives.: Marlon Brando (1924 - 2004)
Imagine what it would be like if TV actually were good. It would be the end of everything we know.: Marvin Minsky
Television is for appearing on - not for looking at.: Noel Coward (1899 - 1973)
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.: Peter De Vries
All television is children's television.: Richard P. Adler
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 (1924 - 1975)
Television has raised writing to a new low.: Samuel Goldwyn (1882 - 1974)

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