Television

Quotes regarding

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Sourced

One of television’s great contributions is that it brought murder back into the home, where it belongs.
Who: Alfred Hitchcock National Observer 15 Aug. 1966

Seeing a murder on television can … help work off one’s antagonisms. And if you haven’t any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
- Who: Alfred Hitchcock National Observer 15 Aug. 1966

Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.
- Who: Alfred Hitchcock | . 1960

[Television is] like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn’t change people’s habits. It just kept them inside the house.
- Who: Alfred HitchcockNY Journal-American 25 Aug. 1965

I haven't had a TV in 10 years, and I really don't miss it. 'Cause it's always so much more fun to be with people than it ever was to be with a television.
- Who: Chuck Palahniuk San Francisco Bay Guardian, October 30, 2002

I think that parents only get so offended by television because they rely on it as a babysitter and the sole educator of their kids.
- Who: Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park, Death, 1997

I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in all this noise?
- Who: Federico Fellini, a Fellini Lexicon, (1992)

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.
- Who: Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - ), Cold Turkey, In These Times, May 10, 2004

Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative.
- Who: Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - ), Cold Turkey, In These Times, May 10, 2004

Attributed

It used to be that we in films were the lowest form of art. Now we have something to look down on. ~ Billy Wilder

Television is called a medium because it is neither rare or well done ~ variously attributed

Television is for appearing on, not looking at. ~ Noel Coward
TV is like taking black paint to your eye. ~ Bill Hicks
Television is more interesting than people. If it were not, we should have people standing in the corners of our rooms. ~ Alan Coren
Television is simultaneously blamed, often by the same people, for worsening the world and for being powerless to change it. ~ Clive James
The best that can be said for Norwegian television is that it gives you the sensation of a coma without the worry and inconvenience ~ Bill Bryson
Television has raised writing to a new low. ~ Samuel Goldwyn (1882 - 1974)
"There are many ways to talk about television. But in a "Business" perspective, let's be realistic : basicaly, TF1's job is to help Coca-Cola selling its product, for instance. To make the advertising message well received, the audience's brain must be available. Our shows are here to make the brain available, to entertain it, to relax it, to prepare it between two messages. What we're selling to Coca-Cola is humain available brain time. Nothing is as difficult as getting this availability" (Patrick Le Lay, CEO of TF1, the main french TV-channel - hope my translation is understandable!)
"Television is something the Russians invented to destroy American education."
- Attributed to the mathematician Paul Erdös
TV is chewing gum for the eyes. ~ Frank Lloyd Wright (1869 - 1959)
If there's anything unsettling to the stomach, it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives. ~ Marlon Brando
Don't you wish there were a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence? There's one marked 'Brightness,' but it doesn't work. ~ Gallagher
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 enables you to be entertained in your home by people you wouldn't have in your home. ~ David Frost
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 (1924 - 1975)