Television

I hate television. I hate it as much as I hate peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.

—Orson Welles

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

Television is a medium because anything well done is rare.

—Fred Allen

Cinema, radio, television, and magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen without hearing.

—Robert Bresson

I find television very educational. Every time someone switches it on, I go into another room and read a good book.

—Groucho Marx

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

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

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

Television is for appearing on—not for looking at.

—Noel Coward

Everyone has a purpose in life. Perhaps yours is watching television.

—David Letterman

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

Imitation is the sincerest form of television.

—Fred Allen

Television—a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.

—Ernie Kovacs

Television has raised writing to a new low.

—Samuel Goldwyn

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

—Johnny Carson