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.

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.

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 has made dictatorship impossible but democracy unbearable.

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

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

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's all the New Media, capital N, capital M, ... The distinctions between television, radio, video and the Internet are gone. What matters now for companies is who develops the right strategy to harness the combined New Media first, fastest, best and least expensively.

The FIFA World Cup will be the single most watched sporting event by a worldwide television audience, bringing together football fans from around the world. Our game, '2006 FIFA World Cup', celebrates this passion by capturing all of the national rivalries in-game, enabling fans to play their heroes and be a part of the 2006 FIFA World Cup.

Many retailers use their television advertising to entertain consumers as a way of engaging them but it doesn't appear that it is translating into influence to shop as far as shoppers are concerned. Based on the consumer's choice of media of influence, it seems that consumers want information and direction. Engaging commercials on TV appear not to have impact on the cognitive domain called purchasing.

24/7 society. Any time of the night or day, you can go to the store, go online. Television, no question, has had an impact on sleep.

If we're able to recycle a single can, we save enough energy to power the average television for three hours, or a 100-watt light bulb in a home for up to four hours.

We've always said part of the reason for the repeat matches is for television.

That all started because I saw Run Silent, Run Deep on television.

I think they've been unfairly treated, ... You don't need to be in the Superdome, you look at the television and you can see it.

We are very interested in the cable television sector in Korea. It's highly diversified. We are now just beginning a period of consolidation in that industry.

[Wal-Mart may shift more of its ad spending to the Internet, direct-mail and local television after relying on national television, Chief Marketing Officer John Fleming told analysts in Boston last month.] For the next six months, you'll see a lot of changes in what our advertising looks like, ... There's an opportunity to drive clearer, more focused messages.

That's the miracle of television. They'll fix it in the edit.