Television Quotes

Television is an instrument which can paralyze this country.

Gen William C. Westmoreland

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

Alfred Hitchcock

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

Alfred Hitchcock

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

Ann Landers

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.

Fred Allen

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

Marvin Minsky

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.

Bill Gates

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.

Laurence J. Peter

I was on an airplane last year when a talk show began playing on the TVs. I decided to start narrating for the people, which is a really great game if you're ever bored enough. I realized a time will probably come when television will watch us if we're watching it, if that hasn't already happened, figuratively or literally. It sounded like some sort of pseudo-Big Brother nightmare, so I wrote it down.

Brandon Boyd

I watched a rerun on television of a 1960s comedy programme called "Mr Ed", which was about a talking horse. Judging by the quality of the jokes, I would guess that Mr Ed wrote his own material.

William Cullen Bryant

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.

John Lennon

The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely.

T. S. Eliot
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