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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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rip the prisons
open
put the
convicts
on
television
- Norman Mailer
Deaths For The Ladies
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A democratic civilization will save itself only if it makes the language of the image into a stimulus for critical reflection — not an invitation for hypnosis.
- Umberto Eco
The Screen Education Reader
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I had to start watching [The Real Housewives of New Jersey] every week because, well, my IQ was just too high. I mean seriously up there. What can I tell you? After watching every episode, I am now officially as dumb as that brown, particle-like stuff you find outside and don't want to track inside the house. Rhymes with "wirt", I think.
- Celia Rivenbark
You Don't Sweat Much for a Fat Girl: Observations on Life from the Shallow End of the Pool
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Last week, I suggested the candidates take up mushrooms. I’ll be damned if Rick Perry didn’t take me up on that.
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So I ask you: whose job is it in this country to wake up comatose parents? Someone better do it soon because knowing television's potential for harm and keeping that knowledge to ourselves instead of sharing it with parents amounts to covering up a land mine on a busy street.
- Jim Trelease
The Read-Aloud Handbook
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That day, I started taking an interest in the bar's television. We always kept it on. As the hours slid by in a cacophony of talk I kept watch, throwing in the occasional comment about politicians, bankers, show biz personalities as they appeared on screen. I wasn't being nosy, you understand. Just human.
- Jonathan Gash
The Great California Game
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Can I ask you to keep watching us? ... This is only the forty-eighth show. We've got more to reveal. We may have some surprises for you.
- William Harrington
Columbo: The Grassy Knoll
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Re-runs are a way of life.
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Philo Taylor Farnsworth successfully demonstrated the first television on Sept. 7, 1927.
Since that time, conservatives have consumed countless hours of positive programming… and completely dismissed every second of it.
- Bryan (Nyrhalahotep) Hardbarger
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The three of us watched a lot of television, always discussing the programs at length.
- Andrew Neiderman
Pin
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I will try to demonstrate by concrete example that television's way of knowing is uncompromisingly hostile to typography's way of knowing; that television's conversations promote incoherence and triviality; that the phrase "serious television" is a contradiction in terms; and that television speaks in only one persistent voice-the voice of entertainment.
- Neil Postman
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
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To a nation of grandparents nostalgic for a time when everyone listened to Toscanini on the radio, tired of having to watch people on TV win money for bungee jumping and eating goat rectums, Jeopardy! is sweetly cerebral relief piped in straight from the Eisenhower era, a time capsule from ana age before America dumbed down.
- Ken Jennings
Brainiac: Adventures in the Curious, Competitive, Compulsive World of Trivia Buffs
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President Trump is the most ‘entertaining’ president.
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Broadcast and satellite television and radio, the global positioning system (GPS), cellphones, and WiFi have all come at the expense of the next generation.
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When the television doctors look worried talking about COVID-19, you know it is far worse than what they are saying.
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Watching the space shuttle challenger explode on live television was a profound experience for a teenager.
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Stereotypes are not actually always proven;
Sometimes they are programmed.
- Tiffany Luard
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I am from the generation of children that watched NASA kill a school teacher on live television.
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Distractions can make a day feel like an hour.
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Junk food is television for tongues.
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I don’t really do anything. It’s kinda fun sometimes
- Jay Cutler
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Mass media programmers know that the best way to capture audience share is to titillate the masses with conflict, violence, sex, and rampant acts of ghoulishness. Americans are rapidly exchanging their energizing personal inner vibrancy for sedate forms of televised tickling.
- Kilroy J. Oldster
Dead Toad Scrolls
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Many are quick to dismiss those who pursue the arts, insisting a degree in one useless or a vow of poverty appropriate, yet wouldn’t want to live in a world without music, literature, television, or videogame.
- J. Andrew Schrecker
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This is what comes from the wrong kind of attentiveness. People get brain fade. This is because they've forgotten how to listen and look as children. They've forgotten how to collect data. In the psychic sense a forest fire on TV is on a lower plane than a ten-second spot for Automatic Dishwasher All. The commercial has deeper waves, deeper emanations. But we have reversed the relative significance of these things. This is why people's eyes, ears, brains and nervous systems have grown weary. It's a simple case of misuse.
- Don DeLillo
White Noise
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rip the prisons
open
put the
convicts
on
television
- Norman Mailer
Deaths For The Ladies
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A democratic civilization will save itself only if it makes the language of the image into a stimulus for critical reflection — not an invitation for hypnosis.
- Umberto Eco
The Screen Education Reader
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I had to start watching [The Real Housewives of New Jersey] every week because, well, my IQ was just too high. I mean seriously up there. What can I tell you? After watching every episode, I am now officially as dumb as that brown, particle-like stuff you find outside and don't want to track inside the house. Rhymes with "wirt", I think.
- Celia Rivenbark
You Don't Sweat Much for a Fat Girl: Observations on Life from the Shallow End of the Pool
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Last week, I suggested the candidates take up mushrooms. I’ll be damned if Rick Perry didn’t take me up on that.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
So I ask you: whose job is it in this country to wake up comatose parents? Someone better do it soon because knowing television's potential for harm and keeping that knowledge to ourselves instead of sharing it with parents amounts to covering up a land mine on a busy street.
- Jim Trelease
The Read-Aloud Handbook
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That day, I started taking an interest in the bar's television. We always kept it on. As the hours slid by in a cacophony of talk I kept watch, throwing in the occasional comment about politicians, bankers, show biz personalities as they appeared on screen. I wasn't being nosy, you understand. Just human.
- Jonathan Gash
The Great California Game
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Can I ask you to keep watching us? ... This is only the forty-eighth show. We've got more to reveal. We may have some surprises for you.
- William Harrington
Columbo: The Grassy Knoll
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Re-runs are a way of life.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Philo Taylor Farnsworth successfully demonstrated the first television on Sept. 7, 1927.
Since that time, conservatives have consumed countless hours of positive programming… and completely dismissed every second of it.
- Bryan (Nyrhalahotep) Hardbarger
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The three of us watched a lot of television, always discussing the programs at length.
- Andrew Neiderman
Pin
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I will try to demonstrate by concrete example that television's way of knowing is uncompromisingly hostile to typography's way of knowing; that television's conversations promote incoherence and triviality; that the phrase "serious television" is a contradiction in terms; and that television speaks in only one persistent voice-the voice of entertainment.
- Neil Postman
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
To a nation of grandparents nostalgic for a time when everyone listened to Toscanini on the radio, tired of having to watch people on TV win money for bungee jumping and eating goat rectums, Jeopardy! is sweetly cerebral relief piped in straight from the Eisenhower era, a time capsule from ana age before America dumbed down.
- Ken Jennings
Brainiac: Adventures in the Curious, Competitive, Compulsive World of Trivia Buffs
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
President Trump is the most ‘entertaining’ president.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Broadcast and satellite television and radio, the global positioning system (GPS), cellphones, and WiFi have all come at the expense of the next generation.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When the television doctors look worried talking about COVID-19, you know it is far worse than what they are saying.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Watching the space shuttle challenger explode on live television was a profound experience for a teenager.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Stereotypes are not actually always proven;
Sometimes they are programmed.
- Tiffany Luard
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I am from the generation of children that watched NASA kill a school teacher on live television.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Distractions can make a day feel like an hour.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Junk food is television for tongues.
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I don’t really do anything. It’s kinda fun sometimes
- Jay Cutler
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Mass media programmers know that the best way to capture audience share is to titillate the masses with conflict, violence, sex, and rampant acts of ghoulishness. Americans are rapidly exchanging their energizing personal inner vibrancy for sedate forms of televised tickling.
- Kilroy J. Oldster
Dead Toad Scrolls
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Many are quick to dismiss those who pursue the arts, insisting a degree in one useless or a vow of poverty appropriate, yet wouldn’t want to live in a world without music, literature, television, or videogame.
- J. Andrew Schrecker
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
This is what comes from the wrong kind of attentiveness. People get brain fade. This is because they've forgotten how to listen and look as children. They've forgotten how to collect data. In the psychic sense a forest fire on TV is on a lower plane than a ten-second spot for Automatic Dishwasher All. The commercial has deeper waves, deeper emanations. But we have reversed the relative significance of these things. This is why people's eyes, ears, brains and nervous systems have grown weary. It's a simple case of misuse.
- Don DeLillo
White Noise
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
rip the prisons
open
put the
convicts
on
television
- Norman Mailer
Deaths For The Ladies
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A democratic civilization will save itself only if it makes the language of the image into a stimulus for critical reflection — not an invitation for hypnosis.
- Umberto Eco
The Screen Education Reader
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I had to start watching [The Real Housewives of New Jersey] every week because, well, my IQ was just too high. I mean seriously up there. What can I tell you? After watching every episode, I am now officially as dumb as that brown, particle-like stuff you find outside and don't want to track inside the house. Rhymes with "wirt", I think.
- Celia Rivenbark
You Don't Sweat Much for a Fat Girl: Observations on Life from the Shallow End of the Pool
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Last week, I suggested the candidates take up mushrooms. I’ll be damned if Rick Perry didn’t take me up on that.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
So I ask you: whose job is it in this country to wake up comatose parents? Someone better do it soon because knowing television's potential for harm and keeping that knowledge to ourselves instead of sharing it with parents amounts to covering up a land mine on a busy street.
- Jim Trelease
The Read-Aloud Handbook
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
That day, I started taking an interest in the bar's television. We always kept it on. As the hours slid by in a cacophony of talk I kept watch, throwing in the occasional comment about politicians, bankers, show biz personalities as they appeared on screen. I wasn't being nosy, you understand. Just human.
- Jonathan Gash
The Great California Game
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Can I ask you to keep watching us? ... This is only the forty-eighth show. We've got more to reveal. We may have some surprises for you.
- William Harrington
Columbo: The Grassy Knoll
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Re-runs are a way of life.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Philo Taylor Farnsworth successfully demonstrated the first television on Sept. 7, 1927.
Since that time, conservatives have consumed countless hours of positive programming… and completely dismissed every second of it.
- Bryan (Nyrhalahotep) Hardbarger
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The three of us watched a lot of television, always discussing the programs at length.
- Andrew Neiderman
Pin
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I will try to demonstrate by concrete example that television's way of knowing is uncompromisingly hostile to typography's way of knowing; that television's conversations promote incoherence and triviality; that the phrase "serious television" is a contradiction in terms; and that television speaks in only one persistent voice-the voice of entertainment.
- Neil Postman
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
To a nation of grandparents nostalgic for a time when everyone listened to Toscanini on the radio, tired of having to watch people on TV win money for bungee jumping and eating goat rectums, Jeopardy! is sweetly cerebral relief piped in straight from the Eisenhower era, a time capsule from ana age before America dumbed down.
- Ken Jennings
Brainiac: Adventures in the Curious, Competitive, Compulsive World of Trivia Buffs
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
President Trump is the most ‘entertaining’ president.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Broadcast and satellite television and radio, the global positioning system (GPS), cellphones, and WiFi have all come at the expense of the next generation.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When the television doctors look worried talking about COVID-19, you know it is far worse than what they are saying.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Watching the space shuttle challenger explode on live television was a profound experience for a teenager.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Stereotypes are not actually always proven;
Sometimes they are programmed.
- Tiffany Luard
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I am from the generation of children that watched NASA kill a school teacher on live television.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Distractions can make a day feel like an hour.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Junk food is television for tongues.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I don’t really do anything. It’s kinda fun sometimes
- Jay Cutler
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Mass media programmers know that the best way to capture audience share is to titillate the masses with conflict, violence, sex, and rampant acts of ghoulishness. Americans are rapidly exchanging their energizing personal inner vibrancy for sedate forms of televised tickling.
- Kilroy J. Oldster
Dead Toad Scrolls
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Many are quick to dismiss those who pursue the arts, insisting a degree in one useless or a vow of poverty appropriate, yet wouldn’t want to live in a world without music, literature, television, or videogame.
- J. Andrew Schrecker
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
This is what comes from the wrong kind of attentiveness. People get brain fade. This is because they've forgotten how to listen and look as children. They've forgotten how to collect data. In the psychic sense a forest fire on TV is on a lower plane than a ten-second spot for Automatic Dishwasher All. The commercial has deeper waves, deeper emanations. But we have reversed the relative significance of these things. This is why people's eyes, ears, brains and nervous systems have grown weary. It's a simple case of misuse.
- Don DeLillo
White Noise
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