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Television has been a constant presence in everyday life, informing, entertaining, and shaping how stories are shared across generations. It reflects changing cultures, technologies, and tastes while connecting audiences through shared moments on screen. The following quotes explore the impact, power, and possibilities of television in all its forms.   ◀ Back
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NOT YET RATED ▼
I bid you peace - said at the end of every TV episode of The Frugal Gourmet
- Jeff Smith
Topic: Television
NOT YET RATED ▼
She put others before herself and yet you hate her. What did she do to you?
- Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz
Topic: Television
NOT YET RATED ▼
What is strong enough to drown out your own conscience?
- Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz
Topic: Television
NOT YET RATED ▼
It was getting harder, however. American magazines still looked shiny and lively, but by the early 1960s, writers like Flora were sensing trouble. With television's exploding popularity, more and more people were staring at screens instead of turning pages. Big corporations like car manufacturers were pulling their advertising dollars out of print and spending them on the airwaves. Magazines were bleeding ad pages and readers, and editors scrambled to balance budgets by retooling audiences.
- Debbie Nathan
Sybil Exposed: The Extraordinary Story Behind the Famous Multiple Personality Case
Topic: Television
NOT YET RATED ▼
Why is this interesting? Why are we watching?
- Kate Tempest
Brand New Ancients: A Poem
Topic: Television
NOT YET RATED ▼
It is proper ‎Netiquette to watch television online via native ‎app when using ‪mobile.
- David Chiles
Topic: Television
NOT YET RATED ▼
TV in America created the most coherent reality distortion field that I’ve ever seen. Therein is the problem: People who vote watch TV, and they are hallucinating like a sonofabitch. Basically, what we have in this country is government by hallucinating mob.
- John Perry Barlow
Topic: Television
NOT YET RATED ▼
Is my coitus whimsically inventive?
- Chuck Lorre
Topic: Television
NOT YET RATED ▼
Those skirts are crunchy toast! Santana Lopez bent over in hers the other day, and I swear I could see her ovaries.
- Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk, and Ian Brennan
Topic: Television
NOT YET RATED ▼
Too many vacations that last too long, too many movies, too much TV, too much video game playing—too much undisciplined leisure time in which a person continually takes the course of least resistance gradually wastes a life. It ensures that a person’s capacities stay dormant, that talents remain undeveloped, that the mind and spirit become lethargic and that the heart is unfulfilled. Where is the security, the guidance, the wisdom, and the power? At the low end of the continuum, in the pleasure of a fleeting moment.
- Stephen Covey
Topic: Television
NOT YET RATED ▼
That is the studliest thing I have ever seen.
- Darren Star
Topic: Television
NOT YET RATED ▼
For good health, watch what you eat. For a good head, watch what you watch.
Topic: Television
NOT YET RATED ▼
Mtu yoyote anayedanganya ni Shetani, kwani Shetani ni baba wa uongo. Tusikubali kudanganywa ovyo, hasa watoto wetu, katika kipindi hiki cha utandawazi na teknolojia.
- Enock Maregesi
Topic: Television
NOT YET RATED ▼
In the end, they will say this of the human race: they had the freedom to go anywhere, but sat in front of the television. They were each responsible for saving the world, but they turned over the channel.
- Craig Stone
How to Hide from Humans
Topic: Television
NOT YET RATED ▼
fuzzy black lines hiccuped across the screen.
- James Patterson
Nevermore
Topic: Television
NOT YET RATED ▼
In saying no one knew about the ideas implicit in the telegraph, I am not quite accurate. Thoreau knew. Or so one may surmise. It is alleged that upon being told that through the telegraph a man in Maine could instantly send a message to a man in Texas, Thoreau asked, "But what do they have to say to each other?" In asking this question, to which no serious interest was paid, Thoreau was directing attention to the psychological and social meaning of the telegraph, and in particular to its capacity to change the character of information -- from the personal and regional to the impersonal and global.
- Neil Postman
The Disappearance of Childhood
Topic: Television
NOT YET RATED ▼
Confession: I don't want everybody to be beautiful, not in that unlined, creaseless, symmetrical way. Android beauty, like it comes out of a test tube. Beauty without blemish or mark. Not only do I not identify with such people, I don't believe in them either. I don't even find them attractive. This is what makes watching television so hard: they don't cast actors anymore, only models. When they make a movie of my life, they'd better cast a character actor in the lead. Don't try to tell me I'm not a character.
- Lisa Samson
The Sky Beneath My Feet
Topic: Television
NOT YET RATED ▼
Then why have you been talking about her for the past half hour straight?" His friend glanced over at him, a cheeky grin on his face, and the rockstar glared exaggeratedly.

"I have not."

"You definitely have. I missed an entire episode of Cupcake Wars because you've got a crush.
- Andrea D. Smith
Love Factor
Topic: Television
NOT YET RATED ▼
Some stories have to be written because no one would believe the absurdity of it all.
Topic: Funny, Television
NOT YET RATED ▼
I should go so far as to say that embedded in the surrealistic frame of a television news show is a theory of anticommunication, featuring a type of discourse that abandons logic, reason, sequence and rules of contradiction. In aesthetics, I believe the name given to this theory is Dadaism; in philosophy, nihilism; in psychiatry, schizophrenia. In the parlance of the theater, it is known as vaudeville.
- Neil Postman
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
Topic: Philosophical, Television
NOT YET RATED ▼
In other words, so far as many reputable studies are concerned, television viewing does not significantly increase learning, is inferior to and less likely than print to cultivate higher-order, inferential thinking.
- Neil Postman
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
Topic: Education, Television
NOT YET RATED ▼
It's a beautiful day in this neighborhood,
A beautiful day for a neighbor.
Would you be mine?
Could you be mine?...

It's a neighborly day in this beauty wood,
A neighborly day for a beauty.
Would you be mine?
Could you be mine?...

I've always wanted to have a neighbor just like you.
I've always wanted to live in a neighborhood with you.

So, let's make the most of this beautiful day.
Since we're together we might as well say:
Would you be mine?
Could you be mine?
Won't you be my neighbor?

Won't you please,
Won't you please?
Please won't you be my neighbor?
Topic: Inspirational, Television
NOT YET RATED ▼
There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room. It is even stranger than a man talking to himself or a woman standing dreaming at her stove. It is as if another planet is communicating with you. Suddenly the TV reveals itself for what it really is; a video of another world, ultimately addressed to no one at all, delivering its own message.
- Jean Baudrillard
America
Topic: Television
NOT YET RATED ▼
TV sounds are all the same; there's no difference between the sound of the wind in Northern Ireland and the wind on a Polynesian island.
- Ryu Murakami
Coin Locker Babies
Topic: Television
NOT YET RATED ▼
I bid you peace - said at the end of every TV episode of The Frugal Gourmet
- Jeff Smith
Topic: Television
NOT YET RATED ▼
She put others before herself and yet you hate her. What did she do to you?
- Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz
Topic: Television
NOT YET RATED ▼
What is strong enough to drown out your own conscience?
- Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz
Topic: Television
NOT YET RATED ▼
It was getting harder, however. American magazines still looked shiny and lively, but by the early 1960s, writers like Flora were sensing trouble. With television's exploding popularity, more and more people were staring at screens instead of turning pages. Big corporations like car manufacturers were pulling their advertising dollars out of print and spending them on the airwaves. Magazines were bleeding ad pages and readers, and editors scrambled to balance budgets by retooling audiences.
- Debbie Nathan
Sybil Exposed: The Extraordinary Story Behind the Famous Multiple Personality Case
Topic: Television
NOT YET RATED ▼
Why is this interesting? Why are we watching?
- Kate Tempest
Brand New Ancients: A Poem
Topic: Television
NOT YET RATED ▼
It is proper ‎Netiquette to watch television online via native ‎app when using ‪mobile.
- David Chiles
Topic: Television
NOT YET RATED ▼
TV in America created the most coherent reality distortion field that I’ve ever seen. Therein is the problem: People who vote watch TV, and they are hallucinating like a sonofabitch. Basically, what we have in this country is government by hallucinating mob.
- John Perry Barlow
Topic: Television
NOT YET RATED ▼
Is my coitus whimsically inventive?
- Chuck Lorre
Topic: Television
NOT YET RATED ▼
Those skirts are crunchy toast! Santana Lopez bent over in hers the other day, and I swear I could see her ovaries.
- Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk, and Ian Brennan
Topic: Television
NOT YET RATED ▼
Too many vacations that last too long, too many movies, too much TV, too much video game playing—too much undisciplined leisure time in which a person continually takes the course of least resistance gradually wastes a life. It ensures that a person’s capacities stay dormant, that talents remain undeveloped, that the mind and spirit become lethargic and that the heart is unfulfilled. Where is the security, the guidance, the wisdom, and the power? At the low end of the continuum, in the pleasure of a fleeting moment.
- Stephen Covey
Topic: Television
NOT YET RATED ▼
That is the studliest thing I have ever seen.
- Darren Star
Topic: Television
NOT YET RATED ▼
For good health, watch what you eat. For a good head, watch what you watch.
Topic: Television
NOT YET RATED ▼
Mtu yoyote anayedanganya ni Shetani, kwani Shetani ni baba wa uongo. Tusikubali kudanganywa ovyo, hasa watoto wetu, katika kipindi hiki cha utandawazi na teknolojia.
- Enock Maregesi
Topic: Television
NOT YET RATED ▼
In the end, they will say this of the human race: they had the freedom to go anywhere, but sat in front of the television. They were each responsible for saving the world, but they turned over the channel.
- Craig Stone
How to Hide from Humans
Topic: Television
NOT YET RATED ▼
fuzzy black lines hiccuped across the screen.
- James Patterson
Nevermore
Topic: Television
NOT YET RATED ▼
In saying no one knew about the ideas implicit in the telegraph, I am not quite accurate. Thoreau knew. Or so one may surmise. It is alleged that upon being told that through the telegraph a man in Maine could instantly send a message to a man in Texas, Thoreau asked, "But what do they have to say to each other?" In asking this question, to which no serious interest was paid, Thoreau was directing attention to the psychological and social meaning of the telegraph, and in particular to its capacity to change the character of information -- from the personal and regional to the impersonal and global.
- Neil Postman
The Disappearance of Childhood
Topic: Television
NOT YET RATED ▼
Confession: I don't want everybody to be beautiful, not in that unlined, creaseless, symmetrical way. Android beauty, like it comes out of a test tube. Beauty without blemish or mark. Not only do I not identify with such people, I don't believe in them either. I don't even find them attractive. This is what makes watching television so hard: they don't cast actors anymore, only models. When they make a movie of my life, they'd better cast a character actor in the lead. Don't try to tell me I'm not a character.
- Lisa Samson
The Sky Beneath My Feet
Topic: Television
NOT YET RATED ▼
Then why have you been talking about her for the past half hour straight?" His friend glanced over at him, a cheeky grin on his face, and the rockstar glared exaggeratedly.

"I have not."

"You definitely have. I missed an entire episode of Cupcake Wars because you've got a crush.
- Andrea D. Smith
Love Factor
Topic: Television
NOT YET RATED ▼
Some stories have to be written because no one would believe the absurdity of it all.
Topic: Funny, Television
NOT YET RATED ▼
I should go so far as to say that embedded in the surrealistic frame of a television news show is a theory of anticommunication, featuring a type of discourse that abandons logic, reason, sequence and rules of contradiction. In aesthetics, I believe the name given to this theory is Dadaism; in philosophy, nihilism; in psychiatry, schizophrenia. In the parlance of the theater, it is known as vaudeville.
- Neil Postman
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
Topic: Philosophical, Television
NOT YET RATED ▼
In other words, so far as many reputable studies are concerned, television viewing does not significantly increase learning, is inferior to and less likely than print to cultivate higher-order, inferential thinking.
- Neil Postman
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
Topic: Education, Television
NOT YET RATED ▼
It's a beautiful day in this neighborhood,
A beautiful day for a neighbor.
Would you be mine?
Could you be mine?...

It's a neighborly day in this beauty wood,
A neighborly day for a beauty.
Would you be mine?
Could you be mine?...

I've always wanted to have a neighbor just like you.
I've always wanted to live in a neighborhood with you.

So, let's make the most of this beautiful day.
Since we're together we might as well say:
Would you be mine?
Could you be mine?
Won't you be my neighbor?

Won't you please,
Won't you please?
Please won't you be my neighbor?
Topic: Inspirational, Television
NOT YET RATED ▼
There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room. It is even stranger than a man talking to himself or a woman standing dreaming at her stove. It is as if another planet is communicating with you. Suddenly the TV reveals itself for what it really is; a video of another world, ultimately addressed to no one at all, delivering its own message.
- Jean Baudrillard
America
Topic: Television
NOT YET RATED ▼
TV sounds are all the same; there's no difference between the sound of the wind in Northern Ireland and the wind on a Polynesian island.
- Ryu Murakami
Coin Locker Babies
Topic: Television
NOT YET RATED ▼
I bid you peace - said at the end of every TV episode of The Frugal Gourmet
- Jeff Smith
Topic: Television
NOT YET RATED ▼
She put others before herself and yet you hate her. What did she do to you?
- Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz
Topic: Television
NOT YET RATED ▼
What is strong enough to drown out your own conscience?
- Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz
Topic: Television
NOT YET RATED ▼
It was getting harder, however. American magazines still looked shiny and lively, but by the early 1960s, writers like Flora were sensing trouble. With television's exploding popularity, more and more people were staring at screens instead of turning pages. Big corporations like car manufacturers were pulling their advertising dollars out of print and spending them on the airwaves. Magazines were bleeding ad pages and readers, and editors scrambled to balance budgets by retooling audiences.
- Debbie Nathan
Sybil Exposed: The Extraordinary Story Behind the Famous Multiple Personality Case
Topic: Television
NOT YET RATED ▼
Why is this interesting? Why are we watching?
- Kate Tempest
Brand New Ancients: A Poem
Topic: Television
NOT YET RATED ▼
It is proper ‎Netiquette to watch television online via native ‎app when using ‪mobile.
- David Chiles
Topic: Television
NOT YET RATED ▼
TV in America created the most coherent reality distortion field that I’ve ever seen. Therein is the problem: People who vote watch TV, and they are hallucinating like a sonofabitch. Basically, what we have in this country is government by hallucinating mob.
- John Perry Barlow
Topic: Television
NOT YET RATED ▼
Is my coitus whimsically inventive?
- Chuck Lorre
Topic: Television
NOT YET RATED ▼
Those skirts are crunchy toast! Santana Lopez bent over in hers the other day, and I swear I could see her ovaries.
- Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk, and Ian Brennan
Topic: Television
NOT YET RATED ▼
Too many vacations that last too long, too many movies, too much TV, too much video game playing—too much undisciplined leisure time in which a person continually takes the course of least resistance gradually wastes a life. It ensures that a person’s capacities stay dormant, that talents remain undeveloped, that the mind and spirit become lethargic and that the heart is unfulfilled. Where is the security, the guidance, the wisdom, and the power? At the low end of the continuum, in the pleasure of a fleeting moment.
- Stephen Covey
Topic: Television
NOT YET RATED ▼
That is the studliest thing I have ever seen.
- Darren Star
Topic: Television
NOT YET RATED ▼
For good health, watch what you eat. For a good head, watch what you watch.
Topic: Television
NOT YET RATED ▼
Mtu yoyote anayedanganya ni Shetani, kwani Shetani ni baba wa uongo. Tusikubali kudanganywa ovyo, hasa watoto wetu, katika kipindi hiki cha utandawazi na teknolojia.
- Enock Maregesi
Topic: Television
NOT YET RATED ▼
In the end, they will say this of the human race: they had the freedom to go anywhere, but sat in front of the television. They were each responsible for saving the world, but they turned over the channel.
- Craig Stone
How to Hide from Humans
Topic: Television
NOT YET RATED ▼
fuzzy black lines hiccuped across the screen.
- James Patterson
Nevermore
Topic: Television
NOT YET RATED ▼
In saying no one knew about the ideas implicit in the telegraph, I am not quite accurate. Thoreau knew. Or so one may surmise. It is alleged that upon being told that through the telegraph a man in Maine could instantly send a message to a man in Texas, Thoreau asked, "But what do they have to say to each other?" In asking this question, to which no serious interest was paid, Thoreau was directing attention to the psychological and social meaning of the telegraph, and in particular to its capacity to change the character of information -- from the personal and regional to the impersonal and global.
- Neil Postman
The Disappearance of Childhood
Topic: Television
NOT YET RATED ▼
Confession: I don't want everybody to be beautiful, not in that unlined, creaseless, symmetrical way. Android beauty, like it comes out of a test tube. Beauty without blemish or mark. Not only do I not identify with such people, I don't believe in them either. I don't even find them attractive. This is what makes watching television so hard: they don't cast actors anymore, only models. When they make a movie of my life, they'd better cast a character actor in the lead. Don't try to tell me I'm not a character.
- Lisa Samson
The Sky Beneath My Feet
Topic: Television
NOT YET RATED ▼
Then why have you been talking about her for the past half hour straight?" His friend glanced over at him, a cheeky grin on his face, and the rockstar glared exaggeratedly.

"I have not."

"You definitely have. I missed an entire episode of Cupcake Wars because you've got a crush.
- Andrea D. Smith
Love Factor
Topic: Television
NOT YET RATED ▼
Some stories have to be written because no one would believe the absurdity of it all.
Topic: Funny, Television
NOT YET RATED ▼
I should go so far as to say that embedded in the surrealistic frame of a television news show is a theory of anticommunication, featuring a type of discourse that abandons logic, reason, sequence and rules of contradiction. In aesthetics, I believe the name given to this theory is Dadaism; in philosophy, nihilism; in psychiatry, schizophrenia. In the parlance of the theater, it is known as vaudeville.
- Neil Postman
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
Topic: Philosophical, Television
NOT YET RATED ▼
In other words, so far as many reputable studies are concerned, television viewing does not significantly increase learning, is inferior to and less likely than print to cultivate higher-order, inferential thinking.
- Neil Postman
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
Topic: Education, Television
NOT YET RATED ▼
It's a beautiful day in this neighborhood,
A beautiful day for a neighbor.
Would you be mine?
Could you be mine?...

It's a neighborly day in this beauty wood,
A neighborly day for a beauty.
Would you be mine?
Could you be mine?...

I've always wanted to have a neighbor just like you.
I've always wanted to live in a neighborhood with you.

So, let's make the most of this beautiful day.
Since we're together we might as well say:
Would you be mine?
Could you be mine?
Won't you be my neighbor?

Won't you please,
Won't you please?
Please won't you be my neighbor?
Topic: Inspirational, Television
NOT YET RATED ▼
There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room. It is even stranger than a man talking to himself or a woman standing dreaming at her stove. It is as if another planet is communicating with you. Suddenly the TV reveals itself for what it really is; a video of another world, ultimately addressed to no one at all, delivering its own message.
- Jean Baudrillard
America
Topic: Television
NOT YET RATED ▼
TV sounds are all the same; there's no difference between the sound of the wind in Northern Ireland and the wind on a Polynesian island.
- Ryu Murakami
Coin Locker Babies
Topic: Television
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