Famous television sayings and quotations
The publishers and others should quit worrying about losing customers to TV. The guy who can sit through a trio of deodorant commercials to look at Flashgun Casey or swallow a flock of beer and loan-shark spiels in order to watch a couple of fourth-rate club fighters rub noses on the ropes is not losing any time from book reading.
By : Raymond Chandler, 1946
I wish there were a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence. There’s a knob called brightness, but that doesn’t work.
By : Author Unknown
Everything is for the eye these days – TV, Life, Look, the movies. Nothing is just for the mind. The next generation will have eyeballs as big as cantaloupes and no brain at all.
By : Fred Allen~famous television sayings
Television has raised writing to a new low.
By : Samuel Goldwyn
They say that ninety percent of TV is junk. But, ninety percent of everything is junk.
By : Gene Roddenberry
If it weren’t for the fact that the TV set and the refrigerator are so far apart, some of us wouldn’t get any exercise at all.
By : Joey Adams
All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching?
By : Nicholas Johnson
What is being lost is the magic of the word. I am not an image person. Imagery belongs to another civilization: the caveman. Caveman couldn’t express himself so he put images on walls.
By : Elie Wiesel, 1995~famous television sayings
Television is simply automated day-dreaming.
By : Lee Lovinger
Whenever it’s on it’s like having somebody in my house that I want to get rid of and they won’t leave. I hate the sound of it. All that noise and light coming from a piece of furniture.
By : John Waters
I have had my television aerials removed. It is the moral equivalent of a prostate operation.
By : Malcolm Muggeridge
We can put it in its proper perspective by supposing that Gutenberg’s great invention had been directed at printing only comic books.
By : Robert M. Hutchins, News Summaries, 31 December 1977
Imagine what it would be like if TV actually were good. It would be the end of everything we know.
By : Marvin Minksy~famous television sayings
What compels you to stare, night after night, at all the glittering hokum that has been deliberately put together for you?
By : J.B. Priestley
There are days when any electrical appliance in the house, including the vacuum cleaner, seems to offer more entertainment possibilities than the TV set.
By : Harriet van Horne
[T]elevision’s perfect. You turn a few knobs, a few of those mechanical adjustments at which the higher apes are so proficient, and lean back and drain your mind of all thought. And there you are watching the bubbles in the primeval ooze. You don’t have to concentrate. You don’t have to react. You don’t have to remember. You don’t miss your brain because you don’t need it. Your heart and liver and lungs continue to function normally. Apart from that, all is peace and quiet. You are in the man’s nirvana. And if some poor nasty minded person comes along and say you look like a fly on a can of garbage, pay him no mind. He probably hasn’t got the price of a television set.
By : Raymond Chandler