Television Quotes - Page 3

The whole problem with news on television comes down to this: all the words uttered in an hour of news coverage could be printed on a page of a newspaper. And the world cannot be understood in one page.

The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead station.

You are what you do. If you do boring, stupid monotonous work, chances are you'll end up boring, stupid and monotonous. Work is a much better explanation for the creeping cretinization all around us than even such significant moronizing mechanisms as television and education.

While theoretically and technically television may be feasible, commercially and financially it is an impossibility.

I am proud of my connections to Carolina and pleased to know that some results from a lifetime of work on television, film, stage and recordings will have a permanent home in Chapel Hill.

Television is for appearing on, not looking at.

I'm told I either look bigger than I do on television or that I look smaller than I look on television. No one seems to think I look the same size.

Television is a service, but it's also a business.

People are tried and convicted in the newspapers and on television before they ever see a courtroom.

Television is an instrument which can paralyze this country.

I just don’t want to come down to that level of society….the ones who sit by their televisions, drink their beer, their guts fat, vicariously living someone else’s life, in a destructive way. I want a positive way.

It’s not whether children learn from television, it’s what children learn from television... because everything that children see on television is teaching them something.

Postman is a media analyst and his theory is that television doesn't influence our culture, but that it is our culture and the presidency and anything that relies on television.

Even though I occasionally appear on it, I don't watch television.

I knew that nobody could be on television week after week as themselves and exist for any length of time, because no one has that rich a personality.... So I knew that I had to create some characters.

Most of my life I was occupied with American television and American food. My ethnicity was my choice. It still is

I don't approve of people who watch television, but I am one of them.

TV is a fickle business. I'm only good for the length of my contract.

Even if I get into television and movies, I'm never going to quit YouTube because of the bond I have with my viewers.

Conversation like television set on honeymoon... unnecessary.

A photograph permits a first viewing, and then an individual reflection. It solicits participation, and encourages individuality in interpretation. Television is an autarchy, a dictatorship.

I'm a technological moron. I have, I have problems with like.. the television

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

I can only speak for myself, and hope people hear my words and see me on television speaking for myself. And, hopefully, they'll be able to make their own judgment. And at the end of the day, I just want my work to speak for itself.

I spent my career trying to speak to the broadest possible audience whether it's in print or whether it's in television.