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Quotations by Subject: Television
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Showing quotations 11 to 34 of 34 quotations in our collections

Dealing with network executives is like being nibbled to death by ducks.: Eric Sevareid
TV is chewing gum for the eyes.: Frank Lloyd Wright (1869 - 1959)
Imitation is the sincerest form of television.: Fred Allen (1894 - 1956)
Television is a new medium. It's called a medium because nothing is well-done.: Fred Allen (1894 - 1956), on the radio program The Big Show, Dec. 17, 1950
[Television is] the triumph of machine over people.: Fred Allen (1894 - 1956)
The great thing about television is that if something important happens anywhere in the world, day or night, you can always change the channel.: From "Taxi"
Don't you wish there was a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence? There's one marked 'Brightness,' but it doesn't work.: Gallagher
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.: Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
Television news is like a lightning flash. It makes a loud noise, lights up everything around it, leaves everything else in darkness and then is suddenly gone.: Hodding Carter
In general, watching children's television is a dark and surreal descent into madness where the characters on the screen talk directly to you.: John Green, Vlogbrothers, A Surreal Descent into Madness: Reviewing Childrens TV, 04-10-12
If it weren't for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we'd still be eating frozen radio dinners.: Johnny Carson (1925 - 2005)
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 (1922 - 2007), "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 (1922 - 2007), "Cold Turkey", In These Times, May 10, 2004
If there's anything unsettling to the stomach, it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives.: Marlon Brando (1924 - 2004)
Imagine what it would be like if TV actually were good. It would be the end of everything we know.: Marvin Minsky
Television is for appearing on - not for looking at.: Noel Coward (1899 - 1973)
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.: Peter De Vries
All television is children's television.: Richard P. Adler
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)
Television has raised writing to a new low.: Samuel Goldwyn (1882 - 1974)
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, Death, 1997
You know, I think that if parents would spend less time worrying about what their kids watch on TV and more time worrying about what's going on in their kids' lives, this world would be a much better place.: Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park, Death, 1997
The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime television.: Unknown
We are drawn to our television sets each April the way we are drawn to the scene of an accident.: Vincent Canby, on the Academy Awards


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