Television Quotes - Page 5

• Television, the drug of the nation, breeding ignorance and feeding radiation.

  Michael Franti

  Ignorance, Drug, Radiation

  "Television drug of the nation". 1991.

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• The character of a nurse is just as important as the knowledge he/she possesses.

  Carolyn Jarvis

  Knowledge, Character, Nursing

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• Be nice to everyone, always smile & appreciate things because it could all be gone tomorrow.

  Cory Monteith

  Smile, Appreciation, Nice

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• Look at what you could have won!

  Jim Bowen

  Winning, Games, Comedian

  "Bullseye", www.imdb.com. (1981– ).

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• You can be miserable before you have a cookie and you can be miserable after you eat a cookie but you can't be miserable while you are eating a cookie.

  Ina Garten

  Food, Entrepreneur, Cookies

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• Whenever you can't think of something to be grateful for, remember your breath. With each breath you take, you can say, 'I'm still here.' Make each day a holiday of thankfulness -and give yourself the gift of gratitude!

  Oprah Winfrey

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Grateful

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• This is Manchester, we do things differently here.

  Tony Wilson

  Different, Rock Music, Punk Rock

  "No strings attached: why the trend for classical 'raves' needs to end" by John Thorp, www.theguardian.com. April 13, 2016.

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• There's so much grey to every story - nothing is so black and white.

  Lisa Ling

  Black And White, Media, Cnn

  "Lisa Ling On Tackling Tough Topics". www.foxnews.com. October 17, 2012.

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• Shortly, the public will be unable to reason or think for themselves. They'll only be able to parrot the information they've been given on the previous night's news.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Night, Thinking, Media

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• Actually, watching television and surfing the Internet are really excellent practice for being dead.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Practice, Surfing, Internet

  "Damned". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, 2011.

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• Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they're scraping the top of the barrel.

  Gore Vidal

  Funny, Literature, Hunger

  "This column will change your life: Couch potatoes v creators" by Oliver Burkeman, August 20, 2010.

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• There is no reason to confuse television news with journalism.

  Nora Ephron

  News, Journalism, Reason

  Nora Ephron (2012). “Crazy Salad and Scribble Scribble: Some Things About Women and Notes on Media”, p.293, Vintage

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• Every time you think television has hit its lowest ebb, a new program comes along to make you wonder where you thought the ebb was.

  Art Buchwald

  Thinking, Stupidity, Wonder

  Art Buchwald (1968). “Have I ever lied to you?”

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• Television is just another appliance- It's just a toaster with pictures.

  Mark S. Fowler

  Toasters, Appliances

  Interview with Reason Magazine, May 1982.

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

  George Carlin

  Air, Exactly Is, Shows

  George Carlin (1998). “Brain Droppings”, Hyperion

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• If you read a lot of books you are considered well read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you're not considered well viewed.

  Lily Tomlin

  Book, Television Watching, Watching Tv

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• How can you put on a meaningful drama when every fifteen minutes proceedings are interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits with toilet paper?

  Rod Serling

  Meaningful, Drama, Dancing

  "American Masters (Rod Serling: Submitted for Your Approval)". TV Series, November 29, 1995.

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• Television is basically teaching whether you want it to or not.

  Jim Henson

  Teaching, Want

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• Television is becoming a collage - there are so many channels that you move through them making a collage yourself. In that sense, everyone sees something a bit different.

  David Hockney

  Moving, Different, Becoming

  David Hockney, Paul Joyce (1988). “Hockney on photography: conversations with Paul Joyce”, Harmony

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• Television is democracy at its ugliest.

  Paddy Chayefsky

  Political, Style, Democracy

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

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• Television is a device that permits people who haven't anything to do to watch people who can't do anything.

  Fred Allen

  Funny, Humor, People

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

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• But there is that certain something about wanting to do the will of God. If one is sincere and if one really wants to know what His will is, all one has to do is be quiet. Shut off the television and radio, and in that silence one will always hear that still small voice in one's heart telling him what to do.

  Maria von Trapp

  Heart, Voice, Silence

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• If intelligence were a television set, it would be an early black-and-white model with poor reception, so that much of the picture was gray and the figures on the screen were snowy and indistinct. You could fiddle with the knobs all you wanted, but unless you were careful, what you would see often depended more on what you expected or hoped to see than on what was really there.

  Madeleine Albright

  Black And White, Expectations, Intelligence

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• Television is not the truth! Television is a goddamned amusement park. Television is a circus, a carnival, a travelling troupe of acrobats and story-tellers, singers and dancers, jugglers, sideshow freaks, lion-tamers and football players. We're in the boredom-killing business!

  Paddy Chayefsky

  Football, Player, Boredom

  "The Screenplays: The Hospital; Network; Altered states".

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• Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Stupidity, Style, Needs

  "Alfred Hitchcock Presents", TV Series (1955–1962), 1960.

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