Television Quotes

All television is educational television.  The question is:  what is it teaching? -Nicholas Johnson

Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other. -Ann Landers

Television:  A medium – so called because it is neither rare nor well done. -Ernie Kovacs

Television!  Teacher, mother, secret lover. -Homer Simpson

Television is simply automated day-dreaming. -Lee Lovinger

They say that ninety percent of TV is junk.  But, ninety percent of everything is junk. -Gene Roddenberry

TV.  If kids are entertained by two letters, imagine the fun they’ll have with twenty-six.  Open your child’s imagination.  Open a book. -Unknown

Television: chewing gum for the eyes. -Frank Llyod Wright

Television is an anesthetic for the pain of the modern world. -Astrid Alauda

I hate television.  I hate it as much as peanuts.  But I can’t stop eating peanuts. -Orson Welles

I could have been a doctor, but there were too many good shows on TV. -Jason Love

Star Trek fans usually know the metaphors of life better than most mainstream poets. -Terri Guillemets

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

Television enables you to be entertained in your home by people you wouldn’t have in your home. -David Frost

Dealing with network executives is like being nibbled to death by ducks. -Eric Sevareid

[Television is] the triumph of machine over people. -Fred Allen

Don’t you wish there was a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence? There’s one marked ‘Brightness,’ but it doesn’t work. -Gallagher

Imitation is the sincerest form of television. -Fred Allen

The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime television. -Unknown

In general my children refuse to eat anything that hasn’t danced in television. -Erma Bombeck

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