Television Quotes

Television is more interesting than people. If it were not, we would have people standing in the corners of our rooms.

Imitation is the sincerest form of television.

Imagine what it would be like if TV actually were good. It would be the end of everything we know.

My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.

Television news is like a lightning flash. It makes a loud noise, lights up everything around it, leaves everything else in darkness and then is suddenly gone.

Television is for appearing on - not for looking at.

Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.

I wish TV had a knob so you could turn up the intelligence. The one marked Brightness doesn't work.

TV is chewing gum for the eyes.

Television has brought back murder into the home, where it belongs.

I like television. I still believe that television is the most powerful form of communication on Earth -- I just hate what is being done with it.

If there's anything unsettling to the stomach, it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives.

Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?

Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want.

When I got my first television set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships.

If it weren't for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we'd still be eating frozen radio dinners.

One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.

Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative.

Television is where you watch people in your living room that you would not want near your house.

I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.