Television Quotes

"Dealing with network executives is like being nibbled to death by ducks."
-Eric Sevareid

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

"TV is chewing gum for the eyes."
-Frank Lloyd Wright

"Television has raised writing to a new low."
-Samuel Goldwyn

"Television has brought back murder into the home - where it belongs."
-Alfred Hitchcock

"Television was supposed to be a national park. Instead it has become a money machine. It's a commodity now, just like pork bellies."
-Fred Friendly

"It may be that without a vision men shall die. It is no less true that, without hard practical sense, they shall also die. Without Jefferson the new nation might have lost its soul. Without Hamilton it would assuredly have been killed in body."
-James Truslow Adams

"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

"We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books."
-Robert M. Hutchins

"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

"When television is good, nothing is better. When it's bad, nothing is worse."
-Newton N. Minow

"Imagine what it would be like if TV actually were good. It would be the end of everything we know."
-Marvin Minsky

"Television is an instrument which can paralyze this country."
-Gen William C. Westmoreland

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

"Television is a golden goose that lays scrambled eggs; and it is futile and probably fatal to beat it for not laying caviar. Anyway, more people like scrambled eggs than caviar."
-Lee Loevinger

"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

"TV is bigger than any story it reports. It's the greatest teaching tool since the printing press."
-Fred Friendly

"Television is a weapon of mass distractrion."
-Larry Gelbart

"The first thing a television viewer realizes when watching a golf tournament is how the sport tends to make one inclined to whisper and avoid sudden movements, such as walking to the refrigerator [during] a possible birdie putt."
-Peter Alfano

"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

"A narrow vision is divisive, a broad vision expansive. But a divine vision is all-inclusive."
-H. H. Swami Tejomayananda

"We are drawn to our television sets each April the way we are drawn to the scene of an accident."
-Vincent Canby

"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

"Commercials on television are similar to sex and taxes; the more talk there is about them, the less likely they are to be curbed."
-Jack Gould

"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

"The journalistic vision sharpens to the point of maximum impact every event, every individual and social configuration; but the honing is uniform."
-George Steiner

"All television ever did was shrink the demand for ordinary movies. The demand for extraordinary movies increased. If any one thing is wrong with the movie industry today, it is the unrelenting effort to astonish."
-Clive James

"Television is simply automated daydreaming."
-Lee Loevinger