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

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

Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home. - David Frost

They say that ninety percent of TV is junk. But, ninety percent of everything is junk. - Gene Roddenberry

It's the menace that everyone loves to hate but can't seem to live without. - Paddy Chayevsky

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. - Elie Wiesel, 1995

Everything is for the eye these days - TV, Life, Look, the movies. Nothing is just for the mind. The next generation will have eyeballs as big as cantaloupes and no brain at all. - Fred Allen

Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy.
Pope Paul VI

Time has convinced me of one thing. Television is for appearing on, not looking at. - Noel Coward

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. - Author Unknown

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. - E.B. White

I could have been a doctor, but there were too many good shows on TV. - Jason Love

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

If the television craze continues with the present level of programs, we are destined to have a nation of morons. - Daniel Marsh, 1950

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

The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little. - Ray Bradbury

Television keeps the masses occupied. What if everyone decided they wanted to make something of their lives? Television keeps the competition down and keeps more criminals off the street. What if everyone decided to go to law school or medical school? It would sure make it tough on the rest of us. - Jim Urbanovich

How can you put on a meaningful drama when, every fifteen minutes, proceedings are interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits with toilet paper? - Rod Serling

Sex on television can't hurt you unless you fall off. - Author Unknown

Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other. - Ann Landers

I find television to be very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go in the other room and read a book. - Groucho Marx

Television has changed a child from an irresistible force to an immovable object. - Author Unknown

Every time you think television has hit its lowest ebb, a new type program comes along to make you wonder where you thought the ebb was. - Art Buchwald

Television will never be a serious competitor for radio because people must sit and keep their eyes glued on a screen; the average American family hasn't time for it. - Author Unknown, from New York Times, 1939

98% of American homes have TV sets, which means the people in the other 2% have to generate their own sex and violence. - Attributed to Gene Baylos

I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts. - Orson Welles

The smallest bookstore still contains more ideas of worth than have been presented in the entire history of television. - Andrew Ross

Theatre is life. Cinema is art. Television is furniture. - Author Unknown


Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television. - Rita Mae Brown

I have come to the feeling about television the way I do about hamburgers: I eat a lot of hamburgers and I don't remember a single one of them. - John Barrow, 1973

The triumph of machine over people. - Fred Allen, about television
 

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