I hate television. I hate it as much as I hate peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts. —Orson Welles More about this quote Tags: humor television peanuts Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When the politicians complain that TV turns the proceedings into a circus, it should be made clear that the circus was already there, and that TV has merely demonstrated that not all the performers are well trained. —Edward R. Murrow More about this quote Tags: politics television Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Television is a medium because anything well done is rare. —Fred Allen More about this quote Tags: humor television media Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Cinema, radio, television, and magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen without hearing. —Robert Bresson More about this quote Tags: attention television media inattention Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I find television very educational. Every time someone switches it on, I go into another room and read a good book. —Groucho Marx More about this quote Tags: humor books television Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
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. —David Brinkley More about this quote Tags: news television information Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
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. —Rod Serling More about this quote Tags: television advertising media documentary Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
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. —Dwight D. Eisenhower More about this quote Tags: attention politics USA boredom television Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Television is for appearing on — not for looking at. —Noel Coward More about this quote Tags: television Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Everyone has a purpose in life. Perhaps yours is watching television. —David Letterman More about this quote Tags: life purpose television Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
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. —Kurt Vonnegut More about this quote Tags: entertainment change death television Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Imitation is the sincerest form of television. —Fred Allen More about this quote Tags: television originality imitation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Television — a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done. —Ernie Kovacs More about this quote Tags: quality television Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Television has raised writing to a new low. —Samuel Goldwyn More about this quote Tags: writing television Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If it weren't for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we'd still be eating frozen radio dinners. —Johnny Carson More about this quote Tags: entertainment television food eating radio Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email