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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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We chose younger and younger politicians to lead us because they looked good on television and were sharp. But really we should be looking for wisdom, and choosing people who had acquired it; and such people, in general, looked bad on television - gray, lined, thoughtful.
- Alexander McCall Smith
The Right Attitude to Rain
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Keisha Blake, whose celebrated will and focus did not leave her much room for angst, watched her friend ascend to the top deck in her new panda-eyed makeup and had a mauvais quart d'heure, wondering whether she herself had any personality at all or was in truth only the accumulation and reflection of all the things she had read in books and seen on television.
- Zadie Smith
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Unpaid internships are worse than slavery," Gabby said. I looked at her, unsure of what she meant. "They make us work ridiculous hours, for free, and they make us do things an employee would do. It's a scam, and worse, they make you feel like they're doing YOU a favor. It's such mindfuckery.
- Teresa Lo
Realities: a Collection of Short Stories
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Reading requires actual concentration. If you skipped a paragraph, or even an important sentence, you could lose the entire story. With most TV shows, though, you didn't have to concentrate at all. You could space out for a good ten minutes, then come back and still figure out what was going on.
- Daniel Ehrenhaft
The Last Dog on Earth
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Americans may say they love our accents (I have been accused of sounding 'like Princess Di') but the more thoughtful ones resent and rather dislike us as a nation and people, as friends of mine have found out by being on the edge of conversations where Americans assumed no Englishmen were listening.

And it is the English, specifically, who are the targets of this. Few Americans have heard of Wales. All of them have heard of Ireland and many of them think they are Irish. Scotland gets a sort of free pass, especially since Braveheart re-established the Scots' anti-English credentials among the ignorant millions who get their history off the TV.
- Peter Hitchens
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The most exciting acting tends to happen in roles you never thought you could play.
- John Lithgow
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You cannot blame porn. When I was young, I used to masturbate to Gilligan's Island.
- Ron Jeremy
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Sometimes I look around my living room, and the most real thing in the room is the television. It’s bright and vivid, and the rest of my life looks drab. So I turn the damn thing off. That does it every time. Get my life back.
- Michael Crichton
Airframe
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I spent my time drinking and staring at a television in the airport bar. More death and destruction. Crime. Pollution. All the news stories were telling me to be frightened. All the commercials were telling me to buy things I didn´t need. The message was that people could only be passive victims or consumers.
- John Twelve Hawks
The Traveler
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Difference between TV and the internet was how far you sat from the screen. TV was an 8 foot activity, and you were a consumer. The internet was a 16 inch activity, and you participated. I think the sitting down thing is similar. You're not going to buy an armoir while standing on the subway.
- Seth Godin
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My wife says books aren’t ‘real.’ ”
“Thank God for that. You can shut them, say, ‘Hold on a moment.’ You play
God to it. But who has ever torn himself from the claw that encloses you when
you drop a seed in a TV parlor? It grows you any shape it wishes! It is an
environment as real as the world. It becomes and is the truth. Books can be beaten
down with reason.
- Ray Bradbury
Fahrenheit 451
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By the time Daisy Jones & The Six performed “Turn It Off” on Saturday Night Live, they were performing a song almost everyone in the country knew. It was the Record of the Year.
- Taylor Jenkins Reid
Daisy Jones & The Six
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Her voice switches from patient to peeved faster than a viewer can change channels.
- Christina Estes
Off the Air
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Breaking: There is a difference between the news and the truth.
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I get that now which is why I’ve finally embraced my own. You and I, we will both be great men because of each other. We have a destiny together Clark, only on different sides.
- Lex Luthor, Smallville
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Squid Game, is a riveting TV program that deserves accolades of praise . It's a TV program that invites you, yourself in to play the games along with it.
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Karma’s a bitch.
- Veronica Lodge
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The indoor society is the isolated society.
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Better to be prolific than programmed. Kick the tube and nourish the mood (as in mind state).
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Most people are subconsciously waiting for some people to be rich, or to appear on TV, before they start considering the idea of considering their advice or ideas.
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To say that film and television are the same thing is to say poetry and the novel are the same simply because they are words written on a page.
- J. Andrew Schrecker
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A soap opera character on the bar TV says, "You killed him, you smothered him with doughnuts!" Another character, another scene--she is sitting in a room with a man and an elderly woman--the leas character wonders if she's dead. The man says, No, you're alive," and the other woman hands her a plate of doughnuts.
A commercial comes on. A couple are on a date and the woman's voice-over articulates interior thoughts of what a wonderful guy her friend has set her up with: "He's so cute, and his IQ is higher than my bank balance . . . but she didn't tell me he has . . . Tourette's syndrome.
- David Byrne
Bicycle Diaries
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I have the most fantastic, stupendous, magnificent idea. Why it’s better than television," he said, standing there in red, tartan pyjamas, his beard in a sleepy tangle.

Dunn's Magnificent Idea
- E L Parfitt
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Encourage your children to read more and watch television less.
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We chose younger and younger politicians to lead us because they looked good on television and were sharp. But really we should be looking for wisdom, and choosing people who had acquired it; and such people, in general, looked bad on television - gray, lined, thoughtful.
- Alexander McCall Smith
The Right Attitude to Rain
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Keisha Blake, whose celebrated will and focus did not leave her much room for angst, watched her friend ascend to the top deck in her new panda-eyed makeup and had a mauvais quart d'heure, wondering whether she herself had any personality at all or was in truth only the accumulation and reflection of all the things she had read in books and seen on television.
- Zadie Smith
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Unpaid internships are worse than slavery," Gabby said. I looked at her, unsure of what she meant. "They make us work ridiculous hours, for free, and they make us do things an employee would do. It's a scam, and worse, they make you feel like they're doing YOU a favor. It's such mindfuckery.
- Teresa Lo
Realities: a Collection of Short Stories
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Reading requires actual concentration. If you skipped a paragraph, or even an important sentence, you could lose the entire story. With most TV shows, though, you didn't have to concentrate at all. You could space out for a good ten minutes, then come back and still figure out what was going on.
- Daniel Ehrenhaft
The Last Dog on Earth
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Americans may say they love our accents (I have been accused of sounding 'like Princess Di') but the more thoughtful ones resent and rather dislike us as a nation and people, as friends of mine have found out by being on the edge of conversations where Americans assumed no Englishmen were listening.

And it is the English, specifically, who are the targets of this. Few Americans have heard of Wales. All of them have heard of Ireland and many of them think they are Irish. Scotland gets a sort of free pass, especially since Braveheart re-established the Scots' anti-English credentials among the ignorant millions who get their history off the TV.
- Peter Hitchens
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The most exciting acting tends to happen in roles you never thought you could play.
- John Lithgow
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You cannot blame porn. When I was young, I used to masturbate to Gilligan's Island.
- Ron Jeremy
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Sometimes I look around my living room, and the most real thing in the room is the television. It’s bright and vivid, and the rest of my life looks drab. So I turn the damn thing off. That does it every time. Get my life back.
- Michael Crichton
Airframe
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I spent my time drinking and staring at a television in the airport bar. More death and destruction. Crime. Pollution. All the news stories were telling me to be frightened. All the commercials were telling me to buy things I didn´t need. The message was that people could only be passive victims or consumers.
- John Twelve Hawks
The Traveler
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Difference between TV and the internet was how far you sat from the screen. TV was an 8 foot activity, and you were a consumer. The internet was a 16 inch activity, and you participated. I think the sitting down thing is similar. You're not going to buy an armoir while standing on the subway.
- Seth Godin
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
My wife says books aren’t ‘real.’ ”
“Thank God for that. You can shut them, say, ‘Hold on a moment.’ You play
God to it. But who has ever torn himself from the claw that encloses you when
you drop a seed in a TV parlor? It grows you any shape it wishes! It is an
environment as real as the world. It becomes and is the truth. Books can be beaten
down with reason.
- Ray Bradbury
Fahrenheit 451
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
By the time Daisy Jones & The Six performed “Turn It Off” on Saturday Night Live, they were performing a song almost everyone in the country knew. It was the Record of the Year.
- Taylor Jenkins Reid
Daisy Jones & The Six
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Her voice switches from patient to peeved faster than a viewer can change channels.
- Christina Estes
Off the Air
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Breaking: There is a difference between the news and the truth.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I get that now which is why I’ve finally embraced my own. You and I, we will both be great men because of each other. We have a destiny together Clark, only on different sides.
- Lex Luthor, Smallville
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Squid Game, is a riveting TV program that deserves accolades of praise . It's a TV program that invites you, yourself in to play the games along with it.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Karma’s a bitch.
- Veronica Lodge
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The indoor society is the isolated society.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Better to be prolific than programmed. Kick the tube and nourish the mood (as in mind state).
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Most people are subconsciously waiting for some people to be rich, or to appear on TV, before they start considering the idea of considering their advice or ideas.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
To say that film and television are the same thing is to say poetry and the novel are the same simply because they are words written on a page.
- J. Andrew Schrecker
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A soap opera character on the bar TV says, "You killed him, you smothered him with doughnuts!" Another character, another scene--she is sitting in a room with a man and an elderly woman--the leas character wonders if she's dead. The man says, No, you're alive," and the other woman hands her a plate of doughnuts.
A commercial comes on. A couple are on a date and the woman's voice-over articulates interior thoughts of what a wonderful guy her friend has set her up with: "He's so cute, and his IQ is higher than my bank balance . . . but she didn't tell me he has . . . Tourette's syndrome.
- David Byrne
Bicycle Diaries
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I have the most fantastic, stupendous, magnificent idea. Why it’s better than television," he said, standing there in red, tartan pyjamas, his beard in a sleepy tangle.

Dunn's Magnificent Idea
- E L Parfitt
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Encourage your children to read more and watch television less.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We chose younger and younger politicians to lead us because they looked good on television and were sharp. But really we should be looking for wisdom, and choosing people who had acquired it; and such people, in general, looked bad on television - gray, lined, thoughtful.
- Alexander McCall Smith
The Right Attitude to Rain
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Keisha Blake, whose celebrated will and focus did not leave her much room for angst, watched her friend ascend to the top deck in her new panda-eyed makeup and had a mauvais quart d'heure, wondering whether she herself had any personality at all or was in truth only the accumulation and reflection of all the things she had read in books and seen on television.
- Zadie Smith
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Unpaid internships are worse than slavery," Gabby said. I looked at her, unsure of what she meant. "They make us work ridiculous hours, for free, and they make us do things an employee would do. It's a scam, and worse, they make you feel like they're doing YOU a favor. It's such mindfuckery.
- Teresa Lo
Realities: a Collection of Short Stories
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Reading requires actual concentration. If you skipped a paragraph, or even an important sentence, you could lose the entire story. With most TV shows, though, you didn't have to concentrate at all. You could space out for a good ten minutes, then come back and still figure out what was going on.
- Daniel Ehrenhaft
The Last Dog on Earth
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Americans may say they love our accents (I have been accused of sounding 'like Princess Di') but the more thoughtful ones resent and rather dislike us as a nation and people, as friends of mine have found out by being on the edge of conversations where Americans assumed no Englishmen were listening.

And it is the English, specifically, who are the targets of this. Few Americans have heard of Wales. All of them have heard of Ireland and many of them think they are Irish. Scotland gets a sort of free pass, especially since Braveheart re-established the Scots' anti-English credentials among the ignorant millions who get their history off the TV.
- Peter Hitchens
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The most exciting acting tends to happen in roles you never thought you could play.
- John Lithgow
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You cannot blame porn. When I was young, I used to masturbate to Gilligan's Island.
- Ron Jeremy
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Sometimes I look around my living room, and the most real thing in the room is the television. It’s bright and vivid, and the rest of my life looks drab. So I turn the damn thing off. That does it every time. Get my life back.
- Michael Crichton
Airframe
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I spent my time drinking and staring at a television in the airport bar. More death and destruction. Crime. Pollution. All the news stories were telling me to be frightened. All the commercials were telling me to buy things I didn´t need. The message was that people could only be passive victims or consumers.
- John Twelve Hawks
The Traveler
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Difference between TV and the internet was how far you sat from the screen. TV was an 8 foot activity, and you were a consumer. The internet was a 16 inch activity, and you participated. I think the sitting down thing is similar. You're not going to buy an armoir while standing on the subway.
- Seth Godin
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
My wife says books aren’t ‘real.’ ”
“Thank God for that. You can shut them, say, ‘Hold on a moment.’ You play
God to it. But who has ever torn himself from the claw that encloses you when
you drop a seed in a TV parlor? It grows you any shape it wishes! It is an
environment as real as the world. It becomes and is the truth. Books can be beaten
down with reason.
- Ray Bradbury
Fahrenheit 451
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
By the time Daisy Jones & The Six performed “Turn It Off” on Saturday Night Live, they were performing a song almost everyone in the country knew. It was the Record of the Year.
- Taylor Jenkins Reid
Daisy Jones & The Six
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Her voice switches from patient to peeved faster than a viewer can change channels.
- Christina Estes
Off the Air
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Breaking: There is a difference between the news and the truth.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I get that now which is why I’ve finally embraced my own. You and I, we will both be great men because of each other. We have a destiny together Clark, only on different sides.
- Lex Luthor, Smallville
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Squid Game, is a riveting TV program that deserves accolades of praise . It's a TV program that invites you, yourself in to play the games along with it.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Karma’s a bitch.
- Veronica Lodge
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The indoor society is the isolated society.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Better to be prolific than programmed. Kick the tube and nourish the mood (as in mind state).
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Most people are subconsciously waiting for some people to be rich, or to appear on TV, before they start considering the idea of considering their advice or ideas.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
To say that film and television are the same thing is to say poetry and the novel are the same simply because they are words written on a page.
- J. Andrew Schrecker
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A soap opera character on the bar TV says, "You killed him, you smothered him with doughnuts!" Another character, another scene--she is sitting in a room with a man and an elderly woman--the leas character wonders if she's dead. The man says, No, you're alive," and the other woman hands her a plate of doughnuts.
A commercial comes on. A couple are on a date and the woman's voice-over articulates interior thoughts of what a wonderful guy her friend has set her up with: "He's so cute, and his IQ is higher than my bank balance . . . but she didn't tell me he has . . . Tourette's syndrome.
- David Byrne
Bicycle Diaries
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I have the most fantastic, stupendous, magnificent idea. Why it’s better than television," he said, standing there in red, tartan pyjamas, his beard in a sleepy tangle.

Dunn's Magnificent Idea
- E L Parfitt
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Encourage your children to read more and watch television less.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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