Top Television Quotes

Difference between TV and the internet was how far you sat from the screen. TV was an 8 foot activity, and you were a consumer. The internet was a 16 inch activity, and you participated. I think the s...

Generally speaking, if you think something you want to do is wrong, it is.

To paraphrase Muggeridge: Everything is a parable that God is speaking to us, the art of life is to get the message.

People want to be told what to do so badly that they'll listen to anyone.[Written by Andre and Maria Jacquemetton]

At last evil and corruption take over, Mearth laughed icily, her eyes filled with a wild glow. Someday you’ll become so unstable that you’ll kill anyone you’ve ever cared about in your life, and when...

So technologies, whether it is a telephone or an iPhone, computers in general or automobiles, television even, all individualize us. We all sit in front of our iPhones and communicating but are we rea...

Sports has always been a pass-through. You pay for something, and then you pass it through to television, you pass it through to advertisers, or you pass it through to season-ticket holders, luxury bo...

Watching television is like taking black spray paint to your third eye.

What exactly does that expression mean, 'friends with benefits'? Does he provide her with health insurance?

The essence of capitalism is to turn nature into commodities and commodities into capital. The live green earth is transformed into dead gold bricks, with luxury items for the few and toxic slag heaps...

How you feel after watching something indicates not what you watched but where you are at.

I'm well past the age where I'm acceptable. You get to a certain age and you are forbidden access. You're not going to get the kind of coverage that you would like in music magazines, you're not going...

A democratic civilization will save itself only if it makes the language of the image into a stimulus for critical reflection — not an invitation for hypnosis.

Nuclear weapons and TV have simply intensified the consequences of our tendencies.

Since I got rid of syndicated and indoctrinated media my life is a product of what I seek and not what I am told. I recommend everyone in the age of information to demand more of what they seek rather...

Television is chewing gum for the eyes.

The value in my room is neither my Television nor my bank note. The value in my room is myself! Why? Because even if I lose everything I have, but still get me, I am coming back with full passion and...

Leyner's fiction is, in this regard, an eloquent reply to Gilder's prediction that our TV-culture problems can be resolved by the dismantling of images into discrete chunks we can recombine as we fanc...

If we were to do the Second Coming of Christ in color for a full hour, there would be a considerable number of stations which would decline to carry it on the grounds that a Western or a quiz show wou...

In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.