Television

Quotes regarding Television

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One of television’s great contributions is that it brought murder back into the home, where it belongs. ~ Alfred Hitchcock, National Observer 15 Aug. 1966

Seeing a murder on television can … help work off one’s antagonisms. And if you haven’t any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some. ~ Alfred Hitchcock, National Observer 15 Aug. 1966

Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it. ~ Alfred Hitchcock, Alfred Hitchcock Presents. 1960

like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn’t change people’s habits. It just kept them inside the house. ~ Alfred Hitchcock, NY Journal-American 25 Aug. 1965

I haven't had a TV in 10 years, and I really don't miss it. 'Cause it's always so much more fun to be with people than it ever was to be with a television. ~ Chuck Palahniuk, San Francisco Bay Guardian, October 30, 2002

I think that parents only get so offended by television because they rely on it as a babysitter and the sole educator of their kids. ~ Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park

I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in all this noise? ~ Federico Fellini, A Fellini Lexicon, Edited by Damian Pettigrew (2003)

The young watch television twenty-four hours a day, they don't read and they rarely listen. This incessant bombardment of images has developed a hypertrophied eye condition that's turning them into a race of mutants. They should pass a law for a total reeducation of the young, making children visit the Galleria Borgese on a daily basis. ~ Federico Fellini, On the Younger Generation, A Fellini Lexicon, Edited by Damian Pettigrew (2003)

One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us. ~ Kurt Vonnegut, Cold Turkey, In These Times, May 10, 2004

Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative. ~ Kurt Vonnegut, Cold Turkey, In These Times, May 10, 2004

It is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome. ~ T.S. Eliot, Ney York Post (Sept 22, 1963)

I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts. ~ Orson Welles, New York Herald Tribune, (Oct.12, 1956)

For intellectual authority, the appropriate version of Descartes's cogito would be today: I am talked about, therefore I am. ~ Zygmunt Bauman, The Individualised Society, 2001

If ‘nothing is ever on’ try unplugging the television for about 2 years, that usually fixes the problem. ~ William Rafti

It used to be that we in films were the lowest form of art. Now we have something to look down on. ~ Billy Wilder

Television is called a medium because it is neither rare or well done ~ variously attributed

Television is more interesting than people. If it were not, we should have people standing in the corners of our rooms. ~ Alan Coren

Television is simultaneously blamed, often by the same people, for worsening the world and for being powerless to change it. ~ Clive James

The best that can be said for Norwegian television is that it gives you the sensation of a coma without the worry and inconvenience ~ Bill Bryson

There are many ways to talk about television. But in a "Business" perspective, let's be realistic : basicaly, TF1's job is to help Coca-Cola sell its product, for instance. To make the advertising message well received, the audience's brain must be available. Our shows are here to make the brain available, to entertain it, to relax it, to prepare it between two messages. What we're selling to Coca-Cola is available human brain time. Nothing is as difficult as getting this availability. ~ Patrick Le Lay, CEO of TF1, the main french TV-channel

Television is something the Russians invented to destroy American education. ~ Paul Erdös

If there's anything unsettling to the stomach, it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives. ~ Marlon Brando

Don't you wish there were a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence? There's one marked 'Brightness,' but it doesn't work. ~ Gallagher

I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens. ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

Television enables you to be entertained in your home by people you wouldn't have in your home. ~ David Frost

It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper. ~ Rod Serling (1924 - 1975)