Top Television Quotes

I used to want to be a cop for a brief time, a detective, solving crimes and upholding the law, ever since I stated watching crime shows in junior high. But being a cop, contrary to what many believe,...

All [tv] shows are like cigarettes. You watch two, you have a higher chance of watching three. They're all addictive.

The President is also captured in a well-worn TV news clip, making a boilerplate response to a question on terrorism and then asking the reporters to watch his drive. Well, that's what you get if you...

This is what comes from the wrong kind of attentiveness. People get brain fade. This is because they've forgotten how to listen and look as children. They've forgotten how to collect data. In the psyc...

Chilling out on the bed in your hotel room watching television, while wearing your own pajamas, is sometimes the best part of a vacation.

I hate to mention age, but I come from an era when we weren't consumed by technology and television.

Personality begins where comparison leaves off. Be unique. Be memorable. Be confident. Be proud.

When your friend who died was still alive, did you ever tell him?Tell him what?That you’re… what’s the word? Celibate? Tony asked, trailing his fingers along the buttons on the remote control but not...

The television commercial has mounted the most serious assault on capitalist ideology since the publication of Das Kapital. To understand why, we must remind ourselves that capitalism, like science an...

Gore Vidal, for instance, once languidly told me that one should never miss a chance either to have sex or to appear on television. My efforts to live up to this maxim have mainly resulted in my passi...

Television's perfect. You turn a few knobs, a few of those mechanical adjustments at which the higher apes are so proficient, and lean back and drain your mind of all thought. And there you are watchi...

Would you ever sleep with me? he questioned once.Never, she’d replied, her large eyes shining in the bluish glow from his TV set, but I love you… in a different way. I’ll always be loyal to you, I’ll...

Understanding knowledge as an essential element of love is vital because we are bombarded daily with messages that tell us love is about mystery, about that which cannot be known. We see movies in whi...

News is how the government delivers propaganda to the masses and it is an essential requirement of the television broadcasting job to be emotionless to this.

Moderate giftedness has been made worthless by the printing press and radio and television and satellites and all that. A moderately gifted person who would have been a community treasure a thousand y...

I should go so far as to say that embedded in the surrealistic frame of a television news show is a theory of anticommunication, featuring a type of discourse that abandons logic, reason, sequence and...

Nowadays films and television are what I like to call "Microwave Media". I like mine in the oven, giving the production time to simmer; get the juices flowing, and cooked to perfection. And that takes...

Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things.

Television screens saturated with commercials promote the utopian and childish idea that all problems have fast, simple, and technological solutions. You must banish from your mind the naive but commo...

Some stories have to be written because no one would believe the absurdity of it all.