Quotations About / On: TELEVISION
1.
Television thrives on unreason, and unreason thrives on television. It strikes at the emotions rather than the intellect.
(Robin, Sir Day (b. 1915), British broadcaster. Financial Times (London, Nov. 8, 1989).)
2.
Let's face it, there are no plain women on television.
(Anna Ford (b. 1943), British television personality. quoted in Observer (London, Sept. 23, 1979).)
3.
Television was not invented to make human beings vacuous, but is an emanation of their vacuity.
(Malcolm Muggeridge (1903-1990), British broadcaster. "I Like Dwight," Tread Softly for You Tread on My Jokes (1966).)
4.
The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.
(William Gibson (b. 1948), U.S. science fiction (cyberpunk) writer. Neuromancer, ch. 1, Ace Science Fiction (1984).
Infamous opening sentence of the quintessential "cyberpunk" novel.)
5.
Never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
(Gore Vidal (b. 1925), U.S. novelist, critic. Attributed, Macmillan Dictionary of Quotations (1989).)
6.
Television constipates the mind.
(Lifestyle)
7.
... there is no reason to confuse television news with journalism.
(Nora Ephron (b. 1941), U.S. author and humorist. Scribble Scrabble, ch. 5 (1978).
Written in 1975 at the end of an essay harshly criticizing CBS-TV for paying H. R. Haldeman, a key figure in the "Watergate" political scandal, to appear on its 60 Minutes news program.)
8.
Television has brought back murder into the home—where it belongs.
(Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980), Anglo-American filmmaker. Observer (London, Dec. 19, 1965).)
9.
Europe has a press that stresses opinions; America a press, radio, and television that emphasize news.
(James Reston (b. 1909), U.S. journalist. "The President and the Press," The Artillery of the Press (1966).)
10.
Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life.
(Camille Paglia (b. 1947), U.S. author, critic, educator. Harper's (New York, March 1991).)
