I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
– Groucho Marx
So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, Go throw your TV set away,
And in its place you can install A lovely bookshelf on the wall. Then fill the shelves with lots of books. – Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there’d be peace. – John Lennon
People love a happy ending. So every episode, I will explain once again that I don’t like people. And then Mal will shoot someone. Someone we like. And their puppy. – Joss Whedon
If you can’t run, you crawl. If you can’t crawl– you find someone to carry you. – Joss Whedon
Watching television is like taking black spray paint to your third eye. – Bill Hicks
Every day’s a negotiation and sometimes it’s done with guns. – Joss Whedon
If you believe that your thoughts originate inside your brain, do you also believe that television shows are made inside your television set? – Warren Ellis
People are sheep. TV is the shepherd. – Jess C. Scott, Literary Heroin (Gluttony): A Twilight Parody
Most people gaze neither into the past nor the future; they explore neither truth nor lies. They gaze at the television. – Radiohead
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
We must, together as a nation, stop watching Fox. – Jon Stewart
If you want to use television to teach somebody, you must first teach them how to use television.
– Umberto Eco
If TV were only an invention to broadcast soccer, it would be justified. – Roberto Fontanarrosa
Television is the soma of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. – Robert MacNeil
Nuclear weapons and TV have simply intensified the consequences of our tendencies. – David Foster Wallace
Television 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
Television characters live inside our minds as though they’re actual people.
In fact, we know more about them than we do about most people in our physical lives. – Neal Pollack
The television set is not the ‘devil’s box’ anymore. – Steven Chopade
The theater has been called the pulse of the people. – Abigail Adams
Life doesn’t imitate art, it imitates bad television. – Woody Allen
Reality TV is set up to make people entertaining. A good person with values and principles is not good television. – Ronda Rousey
Television is a medium because anything well done is rare. – Fred Allen
Encourage your children to read more and watch television less. – Gordon B. Hinckley
Imitation is the sincerest form of television. – Fred Allen
A celebrity is an object that the media manufactures today, just so they have a subject tomorrow. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
If we really exist merely to fulfill God’s plan: then life is a television drama;
with God being the scriptwriter, the director, and, the audience. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Even if tomorrow will be the end of the world, people will still continue to watch television for whole day! – Mehmet Murat ildan
Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders. – Margaret Mead
And I believe that good journalism, good television, can make our world a better place. – Christiane Amanpour
Television is chewing gum for the eyes. – Frank Lloyd Wright
All [tv] shows are like cigarettes. You watch two, you have a higher chance of watching three. They’re all addictive. – Dan Harmon
Actually, watching television and surfing the Internet are really excellent practice for being dead. – Chuck Palahniuk, Damned
Television has made dictatorship impossible but democracy unbearable. – Shimon Peres
Television has been the single greatest shaper of emptiness. – Ravi Zacharias
Television is a perfect democracy. You sit there with your remote control and vote. – Aaron Brown
