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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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In the middle of it all is Hitler, of course."
"He was on again last night."
"He's always on. We couldn't have television without him.
- Don DeLillo
White Noise
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Modern broadcast television, with its digital boxes and fiber optics and orbiting geosynchronous satellites, has become a perfectly engineered slaughterhouse of time.
- Daniel R. Thorne
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The Mauna Kea night shift was an 18 hour night in wintertime at the 13,796 feet summit (before sunset to after sunrise) with insufficient time for adequate sleep before the next night shift. Night shift was between 5 and 8 nights long and we slept at 9,200 feet. We sat at a desk staring at four large computer monitors and a large cathode ray tube television. I would also use my Wi-Fi laptop computer. I would have extreme fatigue by the end of every night shift and have chapped lips which I now associate with exposure to the artificial light from the computer screens. A good day of sleep between shifts was rare and starting the next shift fatigued was normal.
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To speak of television as 'neutral' and therefore subject to change is as absurd as speaking of the reform of a technology such as guns.
- Jerry Mander
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Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
- Fred Allen
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He blamed television, movies, and books for his love of ghosts. It was a fascination that’s been with him since his youth. He always loved watching or reading anything that had to do with ghosts and haunted locations, especially historic sites like New Orleans, Salem, Tombstone, Gettysburg, and Old San Juan.
- Jason Medina
A Ghost In New Orleans
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Celebrity mentality sometimes misguides us to make wrong choices. That’s why T.V screens sometimes lie to us!
- Israelmore Ayivor
Leaders' Watchwords
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The essence of physical education in Naperville 203 is teaching fitness instead of sports. The underlying philosophy is that if physical education class can be used to instruct kids how to monitor and maintain their own health and fitness, then the lessons they learn will serve them for life. And probably a longer and happier life at that. What's being taught, really is a lifestyle. The students are developing healthy habits, skills, and a sense of fun, along with a knowledge of how their bodies work. Naperville's gym teachers are opening up new vistas for their students by exposing them to such a wide range of activities that they can't help but find something they enjoy. They're getting kids hooked on moving instead of sitting in front of the television.
- John J. Ratey
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The moral nihilism of celebrity culture is played out on reality television shows, most of which encourage a dark voyeurism into other people's humiliation, pain, weakness, and betrayal.
- Chris Hedges
Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle
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People want to be told what to do so badly that they'll listen to anyone.
[Written by Andre and Maria Jacquemetton]
- Don Draper from 'Mad Men'
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Grimm: Cat and Mouse (#1.18)" (2012)
Edgar Waltz: You may think I'm a monster, but what I am is necessary. No society would survive without order. Free thought is not free. There's no such thing as revolution. The oppressed always become the oppressors and the cycle repeats itself over and over. The only way to win is to stay out of the cycle. You don't understand a word that I've been saying.
Rosalee Calvert: I'm sorry. I wasn't listening.
- Grimm
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Americans were no more shallow than any other people, just more pampered, so they had come to treasure their shallowness, making pop singers and television actors their most revered leaders. Pampered but lovable. He loved America, even though he held it in contempt. Love and contempt were not incompatible. In fact, one was rarely found without the other.
- Robert Boswell
Century's Son: A Novel
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I'm not a Christian, but I have read his book.
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Mdanganyifu hudanganya wanaopenda kudanganywa.
- Enock Maregesi
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When you are the only laowai in a village of 10,000 Chinese martial artists and you've sat through several dozen films where a white man shouts, "You Chinese dog," before getting his ass kicked, it starts to irritate you. We all need role models.
- Matthew Polly
American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in the New China
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Fake it. We know you can do that. We’ve seen your sex tape.
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A picture is worth 1,000 megapixels. High-definition (HD) TV images are used to camouflage some writers' low-definition (LD) vocabulary.
- John R. Dallas Jr.
We Need to Have a Word: Words of Wisdom, Courage and Patience for Work, Home and Everywhere
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Get your associates as fast as you can and then get a bachelors."

"I don't want that. I want to work in TV."

"Trust me, Laura. You'd be happier if you were an accountant.
- Teresa Lo
Realities: a Collection of Short Stories
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To paraphrase Muggeridge: Everything is a parable that God is speaking to us, the art of life is to get the message.
- Chester Elijiah Branch
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So please, oh please, we beg, we pray,
Go throw your TV set away,
And in its place you can install
A lovely bookshelf on the wall.
Then fill the shelves with lots of books.
- Roald Dahl
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
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Calvin:"It says here that 'religion is the opiate of the masses.'...what do you suppose that means?"
Television: "...it means that Karl Marx hadn't seen anything yet
- Bill Watterson
Calvin and Hobbes: Sunday Pages, 1985-1995: An Exhibition Catalogue
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Television's perfect. You turn a few knobs, a few of those mechanical adjustments at which the higher apes are so proficient, and lean back and drain your mind of all thought. And there you are watching the bubbles in the primeval ooze. You don't have to concentrate. You don't have to react. You don't have to remember. You don't miss your brain because you don't need it. Your heart and liver and lungs continue to function normally. Apart from that, all is peace and quiet. You are in the man's nirvana. And if some poor nasty minded person comes along and says you look like a fly on a can of garbage, pay him no mind. He probably hasn't got the price of a television set.
- Raymond Chandler
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Personality begins where comparison leaves off. Be unique. Be memorable. Be confident. Be proud.
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The essence of capitalism is to turn nature into commodities and commodities into capital. The live green earth is transformed into dead gold bricks, with luxury items for the few and toxic slag heaps for the many. The glittering mansion overlooks a vast sprawl of shanty towns, wherein a desperate, demoralized humanity is kept in line with drugs, television, and armed force.
- Michael Parenti
Against Empire
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In the middle of it all is Hitler, of course."
"He was on again last night."
"He's always on. We couldn't have television without him.
- Don DeLillo
White Noise
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Modern broadcast television, with its digital boxes and fiber optics and orbiting geosynchronous satellites, has become a perfectly engineered slaughterhouse of time.
- Daniel R. Thorne
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The Mauna Kea night shift was an 18 hour night in wintertime at the 13,796 feet summit (before sunset to after sunrise) with insufficient time for adequate sleep before the next night shift. Night shift was between 5 and 8 nights long and we slept at 9,200 feet. We sat at a desk staring at four large computer monitors and a large cathode ray tube television. I would also use my Wi-Fi laptop computer. I would have extreme fatigue by the end of every night shift and have chapped lips which I now associate with exposure to the artificial light from the computer screens. A good day of sleep between shifts was rare and starting the next shift fatigued was normal.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
To speak of television as 'neutral' and therefore subject to change is as absurd as speaking of the reform of a technology such as guns.
- Jerry Mander
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
- Fred Allen
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
He blamed television, movies, and books for his love of ghosts. It was a fascination that’s been with him since his youth. He always loved watching or reading anything that had to do with ghosts and haunted locations, especially historic sites like New Orleans, Salem, Tombstone, Gettysburg, and Old San Juan.
- Jason Medina
A Ghost In New Orleans
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Celebrity mentality sometimes misguides us to make wrong choices. That’s why T.V screens sometimes lie to us!
- Israelmore Ayivor
Leaders' Watchwords
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The essence of physical education in Naperville 203 is teaching fitness instead of sports. The underlying philosophy is that if physical education class can be used to instruct kids how to monitor and maintain their own health and fitness, then the lessons they learn will serve them for life. And probably a longer and happier life at that. What's being taught, really is a lifestyle. The students are developing healthy habits, skills, and a sense of fun, along with a knowledge of how their bodies work. Naperville's gym teachers are opening up new vistas for their students by exposing them to such a wide range of activities that they can't help but find something they enjoy. They're getting kids hooked on moving instead of sitting in front of the television.
- John J. Ratey
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The moral nihilism of celebrity culture is played out on reality television shows, most of which encourage a dark voyeurism into other people's humiliation, pain, weakness, and betrayal.
- Chris Hedges
Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
People want to be told what to do so badly that they'll listen to anyone.
[Written by Andre and Maria Jacquemetton]
- Don Draper from 'Mad Men'
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Grimm: Cat and Mouse (#1.18)" (2012)
Edgar Waltz: You may think I'm a monster, but what I am is necessary. No society would survive without order. Free thought is not free. There's no such thing as revolution. The oppressed always become the oppressors and the cycle repeats itself over and over. The only way to win is to stay out of the cycle. You don't understand a word that I've been saying.
Rosalee Calvert: I'm sorry. I wasn't listening.
- Grimm
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Americans were no more shallow than any other people, just more pampered, so they had come to treasure their shallowness, making pop singers and television actors their most revered leaders. Pampered but lovable. He loved America, even though he held it in contempt. Love and contempt were not incompatible. In fact, one was rarely found without the other.
- Robert Boswell
Century's Son: A Novel
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I'm not a Christian, but I have read his book.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Mdanganyifu hudanganya wanaopenda kudanganywa.
- Enock Maregesi
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When you are the only laowai in a village of 10,000 Chinese martial artists and you've sat through several dozen films where a white man shouts, "You Chinese dog," before getting his ass kicked, it starts to irritate you. We all need role models.
- Matthew Polly
American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in the New China
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Fake it. We know you can do that. We’ve seen your sex tape.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A picture is worth 1,000 megapixels. High-definition (HD) TV images are used to camouflage some writers' low-definition (LD) vocabulary.
- John R. Dallas Jr.
We Need to Have a Word: Words of Wisdom, Courage and Patience for Work, Home and Everywhere
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Get your associates as fast as you can and then get a bachelors."

"I don't want that. I want to work in TV."

"Trust me, Laura. You'd be happier if you were an accountant.
- Teresa Lo
Realities: a Collection of Short Stories
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
To paraphrase Muggeridge: Everything is a parable that God is speaking to us, the art of life is to get the message.
- Chester Elijiah Branch
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
So please, oh please, we beg, we pray,
Go throw your TV set away,
And in its place you can install
A lovely bookshelf on the wall.
Then fill the shelves with lots of books.
- Roald Dahl
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Calvin:"It says here that 'religion is the opiate of the masses.'...what do you suppose that means?"
Television: "...it means that Karl Marx hadn't seen anything yet
- Bill Watterson
Calvin and Hobbes: Sunday Pages, 1985-1995: An Exhibition Catalogue
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Television's perfect. You turn a few knobs, a few of those mechanical adjustments at which the higher apes are so proficient, and lean back and drain your mind of all thought. And there you are watching the bubbles in the primeval ooze. You don't have to concentrate. You don't have to react. You don't have to remember. You don't miss your brain because you don't need it. Your heart and liver and lungs continue to function normally. Apart from that, all is peace and quiet. You are in the man's nirvana. And if some poor nasty minded person comes along and says you look like a fly on a can of garbage, pay him no mind. He probably hasn't got the price of a television set.
- Raymond Chandler
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Personality begins where comparison leaves off. Be unique. Be memorable. Be confident. Be proud.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The essence of capitalism is to turn nature into commodities and commodities into capital. The live green earth is transformed into dead gold bricks, with luxury items for the few and toxic slag heaps for the many. The glittering mansion overlooks a vast sprawl of shanty towns, wherein a desperate, demoralized humanity is kept in line with drugs, television, and armed force.
- Michael Parenti
Against Empire
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
In the middle of it all is Hitler, of course."
"He was on again last night."
"He's always on. We couldn't have television without him.
- Don DeLillo
White Noise
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Modern broadcast television, with its digital boxes and fiber optics and orbiting geosynchronous satellites, has become a perfectly engineered slaughterhouse of time.
- Daniel R. Thorne
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The Mauna Kea night shift was an 18 hour night in wintertime at the 13,796 feet summit (before sunset to after sunrise) with insufficient time for adequate sleep before the next night shift. Night shift was between 5 and 8 nights long and we slept at 9,200 feet. We sat at a desk staring at four large computer monitors and a large cathode ray tube television. I would also use my Wi-Fi laptop computer. I would have extreme fatigue by the end of every night shift and have chapped lips which I now associate with exposure to the artificial light from the computer screens. A good day of sleep between shifts was rare and starting the next shift fatigued was normal.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
To speak of television as 'neutral' and therefore subject to change is as absurd as speaking of the reform of a technology such as guns.
- Jerry Mander
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
- Fred Allen
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
He blamed television, movies, and books for his love of ghosts. It was a fascination that’s been with him since his youth. He always loved watching or reading anything that had to do with ghosts and haunted locations, especially historic sites like New Orleans, Salem, Tombstone, Gettysburg, and Old San Juan.
- Jason Medina
A Ghost In New Orleans
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Celebrity mentality sometimes misguides us to make wrong choices. That’s why T.V screens sometimes lie to us!
- Israelmore Ayivor
Leaders' Watchwords
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The essence of physical education in Naperville 203 is teaching fitness instead of sports. The underlying philosophy is that if physical education class can be used to instruct kids how to monitor and maintain their own health and fitness, then the lessons they learn will serve them for life. And probably a longer and happier life at that. What's being taught, really is a lifestyle. The students are developing healthy habits, skills, and a sense of fun, along with a knowledge of how their bodies work. Naperville's gym teachers are opening up new vistas for their students by exposing them to such a wide range of activities that they can't help but find something they enjoy. They're getting kids hooked on moving instead of sitting in front of the television.
- John J. Ratey
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The moral nihilism of celebrity culture is played out on reality television shows, most of which encourage a dark voyeurism into other people's humiliation, pain, weakness, and betrayal.
- Chris Hedges
Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
People want to be told what to do so badly that they'll listen to anyone.
[Written by Andre and Maria Jacquemetton]
- Don Draper from 'Mad Men'
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Grimm: Cat and Mouse (#1.18)" (2012)
Edgar Waltz: You may think I'm a monster, but what I am is necessary. No society would survive without order. Free thought is not free. There's no such thing as revolution. The oppressed always become the oppressors and the cycle repeats itself over and over. The only way to win is to stay out of the cycle. You don't understand a word that I've been saying.
Rosalee Calvert: I'm sorry. I wasn't listening.
- Grimm
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Americans were no more shallow than any other people, just more pampered, so they had come to treasure their shallowness, making pop singers and television actors their most revered leaders. Pampered but lovable. He loved America, even though he held it in contempt. Love and contempt were not incompatible. In fact, one was rarely found without the other.
- Robert Boswell
Century's Son: A Novel
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I'm not a Christian, but I have read his book.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Mdanganyifu hudanganya wanaopenda kudanganywa.
- Enock Maregesi
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When you are the only laowai in a village of 10,000 Chinese martial artists and you've sat through several dozen films where a white man shouts, "You Chinese dog," before getting his ass kicked, it starts to irritate you. We all need role models.
- Matthew Polly
American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in the New China
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Fake it. We know you can do that. We’ve seen your sex tape.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A picture is worth 1,000 megapixels. High-definition (HD) TV images are used to camouflage some writers' low-definition (LD) vocabulary.
- John R. Dallas Jr.
We Need to Have a Word: Words of Wisdom, Courage and Patience for Work, Home and Everywhere
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Get your associates as fast as you can and then get a bachelors."

"I don't want that. I want to work in TV."

"Trust me, Laura. You'd be happier if you were an accountant.
- Teresa Lo
Realities: a Collection of Short Stories
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
To paraphrase Muggeridge: Everything is a parable that God is speaking to us, the art of life is to get the message.
- Chester Elijiah Branch
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
So please, oh please, we beg, we pray,
Go throw your TV set away,
And in its place you can install
A lovely bookshelf on the wall.
Then fill the shelves with lots of books.
- Roald Dahl
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Calvin:"It says here that 'religion is the opiate of the masses.'...what do you suppose that means?"
Television: "...it means that Karl Marx hadn't seen anything yet
- Bill Watterson
Calvin and Hobbes: Sunday Pages, 1985-1995: An Exhibition Catalogue
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Television's perfect. You turn a few knobs, a few of those mechanical adjustments at which the higher apes are so proficient, and lean back and drain your mind of all thought. And there you are watching the bubbles in the primeval ooze. You don't have to concentrate. You don't have to react. You don't have to remember. You don't miss your brain because you don't need it. Your heart and liver and lungs continue to function normally. Apart from that, all is peace and quiet. You are in the man's nirvana. And if some poor nasty minded person comes along and says you look like a fly on a can of garbage, pay him no mind. He probably hasn't got the price of a television set.
- Raymond Chandler
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Personality begins where comparison leaves off. Be unique. Be memorable. Be confident. Be proud.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The essence of capitalism is to turn nature into commodities and commodities into capital. The live green earth is transformed into dead gold bricks, with luxury items for the few and toxic slag heaps for the many. The glittering mansion overlooks a vast sprawl of shanty towns, wherein a desperate, demoralized humanity is kept in line with drugs, television, and armed force.
- Michael Parenti
Against Empire
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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