Television Quotes

If you want to use television to teach somebody, you must first teachthem how to use television.

But though it had prevailed against such fierce adversaries as fire and flood, it had fallen victim softly and swiftly to television in the 1960's.

The vision teller tells the vision to unguarded minds' of prey. The programmed.

I have the most fantastic, stupendous, magnificent idea. Why it’s better than television, " he said, standing there in red, tartan pyjamas, his beard in a sleepy tangle. Dunn's Magnificent Idea

Last week, I suggested the candidates take up mushrooms. I’ll be damned if Rick Perry didn’t take me up on that.

Aren't you tired from all that smiling that you do at the camera? Relax and come with me to the mountains. There is more to life than the cameras!

It’s television, after all. No one is dead, even when they die.

Encourage your children to read more and watch television less.

An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.

Rich people have small TVs, small cars, but big libraries.

The only private sector industry where employees work with their lives on stake for the interest of common people is media industry.

Nuclear weapons and TV have simply intensified the consequences of our tendencies.

Children playing while in the background the TV blares with screams, gunfire and rape-murder scenes. It seeps in.

Good fantasy fiction: ... explores real human conditions through fantastic metaphors which universalize the characters' individual experiences to speak personally to us all.

Through TV people turn their family living rooms into meditative dens of death and violence worship.

The television image sanctified, conferred identity. The more familiar the face, the more to be trusted.

Advertisement shouldn’t look like information, it should look like a promise.

These women, these Shark Tank Mompreneurs are so passionate about what they created and what they are doing, and that just shines through. That's a major reason why they nailed their audition.

Celebrity mentality sometimes misguides us to make wrong choices. That’s why T.V screens sometimes lie to us!

People want to be told what to do so badly that they'll listen to anyone.[Written by Andre and Maria Jacquemetton]

Stop listening to the TV tell you about America the beautiful . . . get up and be America the beautiful.

How you feel after watching something indicates not what you watched but where you are at.

If you look into the face of evil, evil's gonna look right back at you

A rumor is usually a lie that the media can legally profit from.

The theater has been called the pulse of the people.

She put others before herself and yet you hate her. What did she do to you?

Generally speaking, if you think something you want to do is wrong, it is.

But sometimes the lies we let ourselves believe are for our own good.

A healthy man watched what he ate. An intelligent man watched what he watched.

For good health, watch what you eat. For a good head, watch what you watch.

I'm not a Christian, but I have read his book.

News is how the government delivers propaganda to the masses and it is an essential requirement of the television broadcasting job to be emotionless to this.

Plot twist: everything goes exactly as planned.

‪Am I dead? Is this heaven? No, I can't be. I'm realizing this as I process my second sensation: discomfort. I turn my head. Ooh, a TV. Maybe it is heaven.

Media: the tongue of a nation!

If you pray for rain long enough, it eventually does fall. If you pray for floodwaters to abate, they eventually do. The same happens in the absence of prayers.

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In the struggle for survival, the cutest win out at the expense of the less cute because they appeal more to celebrities and, through them, to a live television audience.

To speak of television as 'neutral' and therefore subject to change is as absurd as speaking of the reform of a technology such as guns.

I won't say that all senior citizens who can't master technology should be publicly flogged, but if we made an example of one or two, it might give the others incentive to try harder.

To paraphrase Muggeridge: Everything is a parable that God is speaking to us, the art of life is to get the message.

Well, fame is a drug and when you take it away from an addict, things can get ugly.

The old Televisions had an off switch.

The real point of watching television is to forget that you have a brain.

And yet that's the best way to watch television actively: with your eyes closed.

A democratic civilization will save itself only if it makes the language of the image into a stimulus for critical reflection — not an invitation for hypnosis.

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We are in the same tent as the clowns and the freaks-that's show business.

Selling the presidency like cereal! How can you talk seriously about issues with half-minute spots?

With television, we vault ourselves into a continuous, incoherent present.