Television Quotes

• If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.

  John Lennon

  Love, Life, Happiness

  Guitar Player, August 01, 2004.

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• I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

  Groucho Marx

  Inspirational, Funny, Smile

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• TV is chewing gum for the eyes.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

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• Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Change, Media, People

  NY Journal-American, August 25, 1965.

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• 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

  Inspirational, Home, Humor

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Memorable, Modern, Good Things

  Kurt Vonnegut (2013). “If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young”, p.52, RosettaBooks

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• Watching television is like taking black spray paint to your third eye.

  Bill Hicks

  Inspirational, Funny, Eye

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• Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.

  Ann Landers

  Funny, Motivational, Hilarious

  Quoted in Barbara Rowes, The Book of Quotes (1979)

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• Television is more interesting than people. If it were not we should have people standing in the corner of our room.

  Alan Coren

  Should Have, Interesting, People

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• 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

  People, Entertainment, Permit

  "Anti-TV guerrillas wield their new zapper" by Owen Gibson, www.theguardian.com. April 25, 2005.

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• All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching?

  Nicholas Johnson

  Wisdom, Educational, Teaching

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• Today's audience knows more about what's on television than what's in life.

  Larry Gelbart

  Today, Audience, Knows

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Buttons, Toasters, Pops

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• Watching violence in movies or in TV programs stimulates the spectators to imitate what they see much more than if seen live or on TV news. In movies, violence is filmed with perfect illumination, spectacular scenery, and in slow motion, making it even romantic. However, in the news, the public has a much better perception of how horrible violence can be, and it is used with objectives that do not exist in the movies.

  Steven Spielberg

  Illumination, Tv News, Perfect

  Veja magazine interview (Brazil), 1993.

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• Television. An advanced technical method of stopping people from making their own entertainment.

  Leonard Rossiter

  People, Stopping, Entertainment

  "The Devil's Bedside Book". Book by Leonard Rossiter, p. 46, 1980.

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• Television is for appearing on, not looking at.

  Noel Coward

  Appearing

  Noel Coward (2008). “The Letters of Noel Coward”, p.585, Vintage

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• Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Fear, Dark, Night

  Jean Baudrillard (1990). “Cool Memories”, p.169, Verso

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• They call television a medium because nothing's well done.

  Goodman Ace

  Vaudeville, Done, Wells

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• In general my children refuse to eat anything that hasn't danced in television.

  Erma Bombeck

  Funny, Family, Children

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• If there's anything unsettling to the stomach, it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives.

  Marlon Brando

  Life, Actors, Stomach

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube.

  Norman Mailer

  Baby, Children, Book

  1971 'The Siege of Mailer: Hero to Historian', in Village Voice, 21 Jan.

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• I think a newspaper should be provocative, stir 'em up, but you can't do that on television. It's just not on.

  Rupert Murdoch

  Thinking, Ems, Provocative

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• The idea of stardom was difficult to grasp. It was like being schizophrenic; there was her, the woman on television, and the real me.

  Jessica Savitch

  Real, Ideas, Literature

  Jessica Savitch (1983). “Anchorwoman”, Berkley

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• First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with ASCII — and we thought it was a typewriter. Then we discovered graphics, and we thought it was a television. With the World Wide Web, we've realized it's a brochure.

  Douglas Adams

  Technology, Typewriters, Discovery

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• Did you ever think about life as a metaphor for television?

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Thinking, Metaphor

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.77, W. W. Norton & Company

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