Television Quotes

You know, I think that if parents would spend less time worrying about what their kids watch on TV and more time worrying about what's going on in their kids' lives, this world would be a much better place.

I think that parents only get so offended by television because they rely on it as a babysitter and the sole educator of their kids.

In general, watching children's television is a dark and surreal descent into madness where the characters on the screen talk directly to you.

Don't you wish there was a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence? There's one marked 'Brightness,' but it doesn't work.

It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.

MTV is the lava lamp of the 1980's.

Television enables you to be entertained in your home by people you wouldn't have in your home.

Television is a new medium. It's called a medium because nothing is well-done.

The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime television.

We are drawn to our television sets each April the way we are drawn to the scene of an accident.

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.

Dealing with network executives is like being nibbled to death by ducks.

Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.

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.

All television is children's television.

The one function TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were.

Television has raised writing to a new low.

[The television is] an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home.

[Television is] the triumph of machine over people.