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| All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching? ~ Nicholas Johnson |
| I wish there was a knob on the TV so you could turn up the intelligence. They got one marked "brightness" but it don’t work, does it? ~ Leo Anthony Gallagher |
| How can you put on a meaningful drama when, every fifteen minutes, proceedings are interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits with toilet paper? ~ Rod Serling, quoted in |
| 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 |
| We cannot blame the schools alone for the dismal decline in SAT verbal scores. When our kids come home from school do they pick up a book or do they sit glued to the tube, watching music videos? Parents, don’t make the mistake of thinking your kid only learns between 9:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. ~ George Bush |
| If you came and you found a strange man… teaching your kids to punch each other, or trying to sell them all kinds of products, you’d kick him right out of the house, but here you are; you come in and the TV is on, and you don’t think twice about it. ~ Jerome Singer |
| Television: A medium – so called because it is neither rare nor well done. ~ Ernie Kovacs |
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| 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 |
| Television! Teacher, mother, secret lover. ~ Homer Simpson, |
| Television is simply automated day-dreaming. ~ Lee Lovinger |
| The publishers and others should quit worrying about losing customers to TV. The guy who can sit through a trio of deodorant commercials to look at Flashgun Casey or swallow a flock of beer and loan-shark spiels in order to watch a couple of fourth-rate club fighters rub noses on the ropes is not losing any time from book reading. ~ Raymond Chandler |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Time has convinced me of one thing. Television is for appearing on, not looking at. ~ Noel Coward |
| We can put it in its proper perspective by supposing that Gutenberg’s great invention had been directed at printing only comic books. ~ Robert M. Hutchins, |
| 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 |
| Each day, the American housewife turns toward television as toward a lover. She feels guilty about it, and well she might, for he’s covered with warts and is only after her money. ~ Mignon McLaughlin, |
| 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: chewing gum for the eyes. ~ Frank Lloyd Wright |
| 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 |
| Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it. ~ Alfred Hitchcock |
| If it weren’t for the fact that the TV set and the refrigerator are so far apart, some of us wouldn’t get any exercise at all. ~ Joey Adams |
| Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general’s warning. ~ Alan Kay |
| 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, "Adding Insult to Injury," |
| Television was not intended to make human beings vacuous, but it is an emanation of their vacuity. ~ Malcolm Muggeridge |