Television Quotes

Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.

All you see on television are debased images.

The nuclear generator of brain sludge is television.

Miss America is a perfect fit for Country Music Television, and we hope last night was step one in a long relationship.

Sometimes, because of its immediacy, television produces a kind of electronic parable. Berlin, for instance, on the day the Wall was opened. Rostropovich was playing his cello by the Wall that no longer cast a shadow, and a million East Berliners were thronging to the West to shop with an allowance given them by West German banks! At that moment the whole world saw how materialism had lost its awesome historic power and become a shopping list.

Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life.

Where's the church, who took the steeple, Religion's in the hands of some crazy ass people, Television preachers with bad hair and dimples, The God's honest truth is, it's not that simple.

It never occurred to me that I'd be on a television show or in feature films but when those came into play my dreams changed along the way.

It's important to me that I look good on television because, let's face it, I'm single, and you want somebody to watch the show and fall in love with you.

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.

Television has made dictatorship impossible but democracy unbearable.

For example, it's only about 20 years ago the people in that community would have got telephone lines, and it would be only about in the 1950s that electricity came to that part of the world. Television wouldn't have come till 1970.

I don't think that there is any longer a dark shadow cast over actors who work in television, so I would readily go back.

I'm happy when I'm productive, ... And television allows you to do that.

Television excites me because it seems to be the last stamping ground of poetry, the last place where I hear women's hair rhapsodically described, women's faces acclaimed in odelike language.

During her nearly 20 years in the television community, Susanne has demonstrated an extraordinary creative antenna for the pulse of pop culture, especially programming appealing to younger women. Her remarkable success at The WB, where she was the driving vision behind shows that have become pillars of the industry, demonstrates the insight, industry relationships and hit-driven track record that we've been looking for in our new head of programming.

No major group has spent a dime on television ads in the last week.

I was sitting at home watching five hours of television every afternoon.

The 30-second television commercial just isn't the shining answer anymore. It's more about reaching the consumer in a way that makes more sense.

That's a perfect example of what happens when you marry television and music badly. It's not what ALICE was ever about.

We will expect that all radio and television advertisements paid in full or in part by soft money will stop running by Monday, September 25, 2000.

What a great run this has been for Jimmy. He is exactly the guy you see on television, totally genuine.

Although watching television can be a great way to unwind after a hectic day, laugh out loud, or even learn something new, it is, generally, the biggest time vampire in modern society.

I was watching television and actually eating fish and chips for dinner when there was a noise up the chimney. Suddenly this thing appeared out of nowhere and bounced off some potato peelings I'd thrown on to the fire, out of the flames and on to the hearth.

Incidentally, disturbance from cosmic background radiation is something we have all experienced. Tune your television to any channel it doesn't receive, and about 1 percent of the dancing static you see is accounted for by this ancient remnant of the Big Bang. The next time you complain that there is nothing on, remember that you can always watch the birth of the universe.