Quotations About / On: TELEVISION
Quotations About / On: TELEVISION
Sir Day, Robin
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Television thrives on unreason, and unreason thrives on television. It strikes at the emotions rather than the intellect.
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James Reston
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Europe has a press that stresses opinions; America a press, radio, and television that emphasize news.
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Anna Ford
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Let's face it, there are no plain women on television.
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Alfred Hitchcock
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Television has brought back murder into the home—where it belongs.
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Malcolm Muggeridge
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Television was not invented to make human beings vacuous, but is an emanation of their vacuity.
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Nora Ephron
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... there is no reason to confuse television news with journalism.
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William Gibson
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The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.
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Gore Vidal
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Never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
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David Wood
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Television constipates the mind.
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Frederic Raphael
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The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labour in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour.
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Robert Bresson
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Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing.
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Andre Plesu
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Reality has become so absorbing that the streets, the television, and the journals have confiscated the public interest and people are no longer thirsty for culture on a higher level.
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Clive James
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Anyone afraid of what he thinks television does to the world is probably just afraid of the world.
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Justin Kaplan
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Television, despite its enormous presence, turns out to have added pitifully few lines to the communal memory.
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Groucho Marx
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I find television very educational. Every time someone switches it on I go into another room and read a good book.
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Tallulah Bankhead
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Television could perform a great service in mass education, but there's no indication its sponsors have anything like this on their minds.
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Camille Paglia
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Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life.
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Orson Welles
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I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.
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Norman Mailer
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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.
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Stanley Kubrick
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See, it's okay. He saw it on the television.
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