Quotes
Quotes about Television
There's not enough sax and violins on television.
There's not enough sax and violins on television.
Television is democracy at its ugliest.
Television is an invention whereby you can be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your house.
The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family 'gets together' alone.
Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.
We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books.
Television's perfect. You turn a few knobs, a few of those mechanical adjustments at which the higher apes are so proficient, and lean back and drain your mind of all thought. And there you are watching the bubbles in the primeval ooze. You don't have to concentrate. You don't have to react. You don't have to remember. You don't miss your brain because you don't need it. Your heart and liver and lungs continue to function normally. Apart from that, all is peace and quiet. You are in the man's nirvana. And if some poor nasty minded person comes along and says you look like a fly on a can of garbage, pay him no mind. He probably hasn't got the price of a television set.
The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime television. â¢Anonymous Given a choice between two theories, take the one which is funnier.
The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime television.
Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
We are now in the third stage of the industrial revolution. The first involved machines which extended human muscle; the second used machines to extend the human nervous system (radio, television, telephones); the third is now utilizing machines which extend the human mind-computers. About half of all service workers (43 percent of the labor force by 2000) will be involved in collecting, analyzing, synthesizing, structuring, storing, or retrieving information... By 1995, 80 percent of all management will be "knowledge workers.".
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.
The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely.
Television is the first truly democratic culture, the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. the most terrifying thing is what people do want.
Television: a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well-done.
All television is children's television.
If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
I think it's only in a crisis that Americans see other people. It has to be an American crisis, of course. If two countries fight that do not supply the Americans with some precious commodity, then the education of the public does not take place. But when the dictator falls, when the oil is threatened, then you turn on the television and they tell you where the country is, what the language is, how to pronounce the names of the leaders, what the religion is all about, and maybe you can cut out recipes in the newspaper of Persian dishes.
All of us are watchers--of television, of time clocks, of traffic on the freeway--but few are observers. Everyone is looking, not many are seeing.
Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object. -Laurence J. Peter.
All of us are watchersâof television, of time clocks, of traffic on the freewayâbut few are observers. Everyone is looking, not many are seeing.
We are becoming like cats, slyly parasitic, enjoying an indifferent domesticity. Nice and snug in the social, our historic passions have withdrawn into the glow of an artificial coziness, and our half-closed eyes now seek little other than the peaceful parade of television pictures.
Sometimes cameras and television are good to people and sometimes they aren't. I don't know if its the way you say it, or how you look.
Television is democracy at its ugliest.
