Television Quotes

Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.

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

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

Television enables you to be entertained in your home by people you wouldn't have in your home.
David Frost

Imitation is the sincerest form of television.

Television is simply automated day-dreaming.
Lee Lovinger

Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.

He who is created by television can be destroyed by television.
Theodore H. White

Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object.

Television is more interesting than people. If it were not, we would have people standing in the corners of our rooms.
Alan Corenk

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

TV is chewing gum for the eyes.

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.

Television has raised writing to a new low.

All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching?
Nicholas Johnson

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

Television was not intended to make human beings vacuous, but it is an emanation of their vacuity.

I have never seen a bad television program, because I refuse to. God gave me a mind, and a wrist that turns things off.
Jack Paar

In general my children refuse to eat anything that hasn't danced on television.

Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America--not on the battlefields of Vietnam.

Television is a corporate vulgarity
John Leonard

Television is a gold goose that lays scrambled eggs; and it is futile and probably fatal to beat it for not laying caviar.
Lee Loevinger







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