Famous television quotations

   We can put it in its proper perspective by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books.  Nice Word by Robert M. Hutchins, News Summaries, 31 December 1977

   Television has raised writing to a new low.  Meaningful Quotation by Samuel Goldwyn

Inspirational Sayings, Motivational Quotes, Great Words, Witty Proverbs
   I wish there were a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence. There's a knob called brightness, but that doesn't work.  Good Quote by Author Unknown

   If you read a lot of books, you're considered well-read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you're not considered well-viewed.  Wise Phrase by Lily Tomlin

   The marvels - of film, radio, and television - are marvels of one-way communication, which is not communication at all.  Wise Phrase by Milton Mayer

   Each day, the American housewife turns toward television as toward a lover. She feels guilty about it, and well she might, for he's covered with warts and is only after her money.  Famous Saying by Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966

   Television is simply automated day-dreaming.  Nice Word by Lee Lovinger

   Do you realize if it weren't for Edison we'd be watching TV by candlelight?  Meaningful Quotation by Al Boliska

   Theatre is life. Cinema is art. Television is furniture.  Good Quote by Author Unknown

   If you came and you found a strange man... teaching your kids to punch each other, or trying to sell them all kinds of products, you'd kick him right out of the house, but here you are; you come in and the TV is on, and you don't think twice about it.  Wise Phrase by Jerome Singer

   I have had my television aerials removed. It is the moral equivalent of a prostate operation.  Wise Phrase by Malcolm Muggeridge

   Television: A medium - so called because it is neither rare nor well done.  Famous Saying by Ernie Kovacs

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

   When television came roaring in after the war (World War II) they did a little school survey asking children which they preferred and why - television or radio. And there was this 7-year-old boy who said he preferred radio because the pictures were better.  Meaningful Quotation by Alistair Cooke

   TV. If kids are entertained by two letters, imagine the fun they'll have with twenty-six. Open your child's imagination. Open a book.  Good Quote by Author Unknown

   Another possible source of guidance for teenagers is television, but television's message has always been that the need for truth, wisdom and world peace pales by comparison with the need for a toothpaste that offers whiter teeth and fresher breath.  Wise Phrase by Dave Barry

   All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching?  Wise Phrase by Nicholas Johnson

   What is being lost is the magic of the word. I am not an image person. Imagery belongs to another civilization: the caveman. Caveman couldn't express himself so he put images on walls.  Famous Saying by Elie Wiesel, 1995

   I believe television is going to be the test of the modern world, and that in this new opportunity to see beyond the range of our vision, we shall discover a new and unbearable disturbance of the modern peace, or a saving radiance in the sky. We shall stand or fall by television - of that I am quite sure.  Nice Word by E.B. White

   Television: chewing gum for the eyes.  Meaningful Quotation by Frank Lloyd Wright

   Television has changed a child from an irresistible force to an immovable object.  Good Quote by Author Unknown

   Today, watching television often means fighting, violence and foul language - and that's just deciding who gets to hold the remote control.  Wise Phrase by Donna Gephart

   Why are sex and violence always linked? I'm afraid they'll blur together in people's minds - sexandviolence - until we can't tell them apart. I expect to hear a newscaster say, The mob became unruly and the police were forced to resort to sex.  Wise Phrase by Dick Cavett, 1978

   Sex on television can't hurt you unless you fall off.  Famous Saying by Author Unknown

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



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