Television Quotes

Television is a service, but it's also a business.

I am proud of my connections to Carolina and pleased to know that some results from a lifetime of work on television, film, stage and recordings will have a permanent home in Chapel Hill.

It’s not whether children learn from television, it’s what children learn from television... because everything that children see on television is teaching them something.

I'm helping launch the new Milky Way Chocolate Ice Cream Bar. I play an astrophysicist on television, and the name of the bar is Milky Way, so put two and two together, and here I am.

People are tried and convicted in the newspapers and on television before they ever see a courtroom.

Television is an instrument which can paralyze this country.

Nashville was totally different than I ever dreamed. I had only seen the music business on television and been to a couple of concerts. I had no clue.

I don't approve of people who watch television, but I am one of them.

Even though I occasionally appear on it, I don't watch television.

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

Postman is a media analyst and his theory is that television doesn't influence our culture, but that it is our culture and the presidency and anything that relies on television.

Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing.

If it weren't for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we'd still be eating frozen radio dinners.

If naturalists go to heaven (about which there is considerable ecclesiastical doubt), I hope that I will be furnished with a troop of kakapo to amuse me in the evening instead of television.

Many people have their reputations as reporters and analysts because they are on television, batting around conventional wisdom. A lot of these people have never reported a story.

It may be said with a degree of assurance that not everything that meets the eye is as it appears.

Coming back to a television series puts you back in the limelight and gives you a platform for your ideas. If you're not acting on a series, you don't get the ability to communicate to people.

Even if I get into television and movies, I'm never going to quit YouTube because of the bond I have with my viewers.

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

TV is a fickle business. I'm only good for the length of my contract.

I can be a rock star with a television show and still have a self-esteem problem. So it's nice to have your dad go, 'Hey Melissa, I'm proud of you - you're doing good.'

I spent my career trying to speak to the broadest possible audience whether it's in print or whether it's in television.

Conversation like television set on honeymoon... unnecessary.

Most of my life I was occupied with American television and American food. My ethnicity was my choice. It still is

I'm a technological moron. I have, I have problems with like.. the television

Television was not intended to make human beings vacuous, but it is an emanation of their vacuity.

The images we eat are as important as the food we eat. Think of that in terms of television, and a lot of the movies we watch.

With any child entering adolescence, one hunts for signs of health, is desperate for the smallest indication that the child's problems will never be important enough for a television movie.

Figure skating is an unlikely Olympic event but its good television. It's sort of a combination of gymnastics and ballet. A little sexy too which doesn't hurt.

A photograph permits a first viewing, and then an individual reflection. It solicits participation, and encourages individuality in interpretation. Television is an autarchy, a dictatorship.

People assume you can't be shy and be on television. They're wrong.

I was sued by a woman who claimed that she became pregnant because she watched me on television and I bent her contraceptive coil.

If you can write a nation's stories, you needn't worry about who makes its laws. Today, television tells most of the stories to most of the people most of the time.

American television really is pathetic.

He who prides himself on giving what he thinks the public wants is often creating a fictitious demand for low standards which he will then satisfy.

The television industry doesn't like to see the compexity of the world. It prefers simple reporting, with simple ideas: this is white, that's black; this is good, that's bad.

The only vision (many) of you have is television.

The nuclear generator of brain sludge is television.

There's nothin' you can get from a book that you can't get from a television fastah!" -Harry Wormwood

My only fashion school was what I saw in the newspapers and on television

Not bragging by any means, but I could have done a lot of other stuff as far as working in films go and working in television... I had chances to do that stuff, but I like baseball, I really do.

The family dinner table is the cornerstone of civilization and those who 'graze' from refrigerators or in front of the television sets are doomed to remain in a state of savagery.

I have this phobia: I don't like mirrors. And I don't watch myself on television. If anything comes on, I make them shut it off, or I leave the room.

All [tv] shows are like cigarettes. You watch two, you have a higher chance of watching three. They're all addictive.

Watching television in those days was not the same experience as it is today. After years of listening to radio, we found the black-and-white images mesmerizing.

If you believe that your thoughts originate inside your brain, do you also believe that television shows are made inside your television set?

I think the love-hate is fundamental. Everyone hates reality television, and everyone's watching it. Everyone hates Facebook, and everyone is on it.

Television could perform a great service in mass education, but there's no indication its sponsors have anything like this on their minds.

I have never seen a bad television program, because I refuse to. God gave me a mind, and a wrist that turns things off.

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