Top Television Quotes

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 eleven or twelve years of writing, Mike, I can lay claim to at least this: I have never written beneath myself. I have never written anything that I didn't want my name attached to. I have probed d...

The theater has been called the pulse of the people.

But sometimes the lies we let ourselves believe are for our own good.

I grew up in the world of bad television, on my dad's sets and then as a young schmuck on dating shows and so on.

I expect the audience to assume TV is stupid. I accept that it's my job to overcome it.

The future is all around us, waiting in moments of transition to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of the future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in...

You know, who tells the stories of a culture really governs human behaviour. It used to be the parent, the school, the church, the community. Now it's a handful of global conglomerates that have nothi...

Seeing a murder on television... can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.

Many of our own people here in this country do not ask about computers, telephones and television sets. They ask - when will we get a road to our village.

Ah man. I remember the days of lying to my mother about a boy. Once I had a boy hidden in the closet and of course Mom wouldn't leave, so I finally had to pretend to get sick to my stomach just to get...

We are in the same tent as the clowns and the freaks-that's show business.

We need to let the referee's sole thing be to protect the quarterback and get those late hits out of there. They even have a stat on television that says 'knockdowns.' Knockdowns means that you knock...

Calvin:It says here that 'religion is the opiate of the masses.'...what do you suppose that means?Television: ...it means that Karl Marx hadn't seen anything yet

Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.

Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house.

We owe a lot to Thomas Edison - if it wasn't for him, we'd be watching television by candlelight.

Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders.

When I was a kid, I'd wake up extraordinarily early every morning and turn on the television, scanning for episodes of 'The Jetsons.' For some reason, I loved the notion of a future where there would...

I know so many people who actually just watch television on their computers now and don't even really watch their TV anymore.