I wish there was a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence. There's a knob called `brightness', but it doesn't work
All television is children‚s television.-- Richard P. Adler
In California, they don't throw their garbage away - they make it into TV shows.~Woody Allen
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 the people do want.~Clive Barnes
Whoever controls the media -- the images -- controls the culture. - Allen Ginsberg
Television-a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.~Ernie Kovacs
Television is a golden goose that lays scrambled eggs; and it is futile and probably fatal to beat it for not laying caviar. Anyway more people like scrambled eggs than caviar. Lee Loevinger
I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book. (Julius Henry) Groucho Marx (1890-1977)
Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America - not on the battlefields of Vietnam. Herbert Marshall McLuhan
There is a gulf between reality, which for Christians is Christ, and he world of fantasy that the media project, and . . . Western people are being enormously misled by being induced to regard things on the screen as real, when actually they are fantasy. But, of course, God can use all things - even television, even you and me.-- Malcom Muggeridge, Christ and the Media, Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1977, p. 90
I have never seen a bad television program, because I refuse to. God gave me a mind, and a wrist that turns things off.
Jack Paar (1918-____) In "TV Guide."
Television has made dictatorship impossible, but democracy unbearable.- Shimon Peres (1923-____) : A Bend in the River, by V.S. Naipaul, 1979
It's just hard not to listen to TV: it's spent so much more time raising us than you have. ---Bart Simpson
There is a lot of hype going on about high-definition television. But is it really worth it to pay more money to see the same junk in sharper detail?- Thomas Sowell
Oh, great altar of passive entertainment, bestow upon me thy discordant images at such speed as to render linear thought impossible! - Bill Watterson
I just read this great science fiction story. It's about how machines take control of humans and turn them into zombie slaves! ...HEY! What time is it?? My TV show is on! -Bill Watterson
TV is chewing gum for the eyes.-Frank Lloyd Wright
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