Television Quotes

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

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