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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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[T]he Federal Communications Commission should reestablish two principles that formerly served this country well: the public service requirement and the fairness doctrine. Every television and radio station should once again be required to devote a meaningful percentage of its programming to public service broadcasting. The public, after all, owns the airwaves through which signals are broadcast, and the rights-of-way in which cables are strung. And every television and radio station should once again have to follow the fairness doctrine: those with opposing views should have the right to respond to viewpoints expressed on the station.
- Bernie Sanders
Outsider in the White House
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Minimalism is a way of living at the maximum of your potential.
- Anastasiya Kotelnikova
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The quest for identity from the images we see; god of America: Father TV.
- j.d. tulloch
The Will to Resist: And Psalms of Anger, Love & Humanity
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Well, then why should we do anything more than once? Should I just smoke this one cigarette? Maybe we should only have sex once, if it's the same thing. Should we just watch one sunset? Or live just one day? Because it's new every time. Each time is a different experience.
- Jane Margolis
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I won't say that all senior citizens who can't master technology should be publicly flogged, but if we made an example of one or two, it might give the others incentive to try harder.
- Chuck Lorre
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TV is a pornographic cacophony of violence, death obsession, screams, gunfire and drama. You think it's fine because you are damaged.
- Bryant McGill
Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
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Children playing while in the background the TV blares with screams, gunfire and rape-murder scenes. It seeps in.
- Bryant McGill
Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
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Grimm: BeeWare (#1.3)" (2011)
Nick Burkhardt: I don't need you for what you know, I need your nose.
Monroe: Oh, I get it. So little Timmy's stuck in a well, you need Lassie to come find him. You really know how to butter a guy up for a favor.
Nick Burkhardt: I've got a '77 Bordeaux in my truck
Monroe: I can maybe catch a scent.
- Grimm
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Change is neither good or bad; it simply is.
[Written by Matthew Weiner]
- Don Draper from 'Mad Men'
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But reading is different, reading is something you do. With TV, and cinema for that matter, everything’s handed to you on a plate, nothing has to be worked at, they just spoon-feed you. The picture, the sound, the scenery, the atmospheric music in case you haven’t understood what the director’s on about… The creaking door that tells you to be stiff. You have to imagine it all when you’re reading.
- Daniel Pennac
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Usually I spare myself from the news, because if it’s not propaganda, then it’s one threat or another exaggerated to the point of absurdity, or it’s the tragedy of storm-quake-tsunami, of bigotry and oppression misnamed justice, of hatred passed off as righteousness and honor called dishonorable, all jammed in around advertisements in which a gecko sells insurance, a bear sells toilet tissue, a dog sells cars, a gorilla sells investment advisers, a tiger sells cereal, and an elephant sells a drug that will improve your lung capacity, as if no human being in America any longer believes any other human being, but trusts only the recommendations of animals.
- Dean Koontz
Deeply Odd
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Good fantasy fiction: ... explores real human conditions through fantastic metaphors which universalize the characters' individual experiences to speak personally to us all.
- Laura Resnick
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Television has greater power over the lives of most Americans than any educational system, government, or church.
- Kent Hughes
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The amount of educational programming on television today is simply desensitizing. The only reason left to go to school is to see gun violence.
- Bauvard
Some Inspiration for the Overenthusiastic
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Today’s generation didn’t want to watch ancient actors reciting the same tired lines. They wanted to see themselves reflected onscreen –rude, raw, entitled. These kids needed to believe that they themselves were only one daring, controversial act away from being up on that screen themselves.
- Melissa Jo Peltier
Reality Boulevard
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Well, fame is a drug and when you take it away from an addict, things can get ugly.
- Melissa Jo Peltier
Reality Boulevard
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I was going to dine at the television company’s expense with one of the most beautiful women in show business and some television producer with an inferiority complex. In my experience, there’s always a price.
- V.T. Davy
Black Art
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If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
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I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
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People love a happy ending. So every episode, I will explain once again that I don't like people. And then Mal will shoot someone. Someone we like. And their puppy.
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On Friday night, I was reading my new book, but my brain got tired, so I decided to watch some television instead.
- Stephen Chbosky
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
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The problem with our society is that our values aren’t in the right place. There’s an awful lot of bleeding and naked bodies on prime-time networks, but not nearly enough cable television on public programming.
- Bauvard
Some Inspiration for the Overenthusiastic
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Hey, Geekoid!" yelled Duncan Dougal, "Why do you read so much? Don't you know how to watch TV?
- Bruce Coville
My Teacher Is an Alien
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Watching too much TV can triple our hunger for more possessions, while reducing our personal contentment by about 5 percent for every hour a day we watch.
- David Niven
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[T]he Federal Communications Commission should reestablish two principles that formerly served this country well: the public service requirement and the fairness doctrine. Every television and radio station should once again be required to devote a meaningful percentage of its programming to public service broadcasting. The public, after all, owns the airwaves through which signals are broadcast, and the rights-of-way in which cables are strung. And every television and radio station should once again have to follow the fairness doctrine: those with opposing views should have the right to respond to viewpoints expressed on the station.
- Bernie Sanders
Outsider in the White House
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Minimalism is a way of living at the maximum of your potential.
- Anastasiya Kotelnikova
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The quest for identity from the images we see; god of America: Father TV.
- j.d. tulloch
The Will to Resist: And Psalms of Anger, Love & Humanity
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Well, then why should we do anything more than once? Should I just smoke this one cigarette? Maybe we should only have sex once, if it's the same thing. Should we just watch one sunset? Or live just one day? Because it's new every time. Each time is a different experience.
- Jane Margolis
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I won't say that all senior citizens who can't master technology should be publicly flogged, but if we made an example of one or two, it might give the others incentive to try harder.
- Chuck Lorre
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TV is a pornographic cacophony of violence, death obsession, screams, gunfire and drama. You think it's fine because you are damaged.
- Bryant McGill
Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Children playing while in the background the TV blares with screams, gunfire and rape-murder scenes. It seeps in.
- Bryant McGill
Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Grimm: BeeWare (#1.3)" (2011)
Nick Burkhardt: I don't need you for what you know, I need your nose.
Monroe: Oh, I get it. So little Timmy's stuck in a well, you need Lassie to come find him. You really know how to butter a guy up for a favor.
Nick Burkhardt: I've got a '77 Bordeaux in my truck
Monroe: I can maybe catch a scent.
- Grimm
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Change is neither good or bad; it simply is.
[Written by Matthew Weiner]
- Don Draper from 'Mad Men'
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But reading is different, reading is something you do. With TV, and cinema for that matter, everything’s handed to you on a plate, nothing has to be worked at, they just spoon-feed you. The picture, the sound, the scenery, the atmospheric music in case you haven’t understood what the director’s on about… The creaking door that tells you to be stiff. You have to imagine it all when you’re reading.
- Daniel Pennac
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Usually I spare myself from the news, because if it’s not propaganda, then it’s one threat or another exaggerated to the point of absurdity, or it’s the tragedy of storm-quake-tsunami, of bigotry and oppression misnamed justice, of hatred passed off as righteousness and honor called dishonorable, all jammed in around advertisements in which a gecko sells insurance, a bear sells toilet tissue, a dog sells cars, a gorilla sells investment advisers, a tiger sells cereal, and an elephant sells a drug that will improve your lung capacity, as if no human being in America any longer believes any other human being, but trusts only the recommendations of animals.
- Dean Koontz
Deeply Odd
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Good fantasy fiction: ... explores real human conditions through fantastic metaphors which universalize the characters' individual experiences to speak personally to us all.
- Laura Resnick
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Television has greater power over the lives of most Americans than any educational system, government, or church.
- Kent Hughes
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The amount of educational programming on television today is simply desensitizing. The only reason left to go to school is to see gun violence.
- Bauvard
Some Inspiration for the Overenthusiastic
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Today’s generation didn’t want to watch ancient actors reciting the same tired lines. They wanted to see themselves reflected onscreen –rude, raw, entitled. These kids needed to believe that they themselves were only one daring, controversial act away from being up on that screen themselves.
- Melissa Jo Peltier
Reality Boulevard
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Well, fame is a drug and when you take it away from an addict, things can get ugly.
- Melissa Jo Peltier
Reality Boulevard
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I was going to dine at the television company’s expense with one of the most beautiful women in show business and some television producer with an inferiority complex. In my experience, there’s always a price.
- V.T. Davy
Black Art
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
People love a happy ending. So every episode, I will explain once again that I don't like people. And then Mal will shoot someone. Someone we like. And their puppy.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
On Friday night, I was reading my new book, but my brain got tired, so I decided to watch some television instead.
- Stephen Chbosky
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The problem with our society is that our values aren’t in the right place. There’s an awful lot of bleeding and naked bodies on prime-time networks, but not nearly enough cable television on public programming.
- Bauvard
Some Inspiration for the Overenthusiastic
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Hey, Geekoid!" yelled Duncan Dougal, "Why do you read so much? Don't you know how to watch TV?
- Bruce Coville
My Teacher Is an Alien
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Watching too much TV can triple our hunger for more possessions, while reducing our personal contentment by about 5 percent for every hour a day we watch.
- David Niven
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
[T]he Federal Communications Commission should reestablish two principles that formerly served this country well: the public service requirement and the fairness doctrine. Every television and radio station should once again be required to devote a meaningful percentage of its programming to public service broadcasting. The public, after all, owns the airwaves through which signals are broadcast, and the rights-of-way in which cables are strung. And every television and radio station should once again have to follow the fairness doctrine: those with opposing views should have the right to respond to viewpoints expressed on the station.
- Bernie Sanders
Outsider in the White House
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Minimalism is a way of living at the maximum of your potential.
- Anastasiya Kotelnikova
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The quest for identity from the images we see; god of America: Father TV.
- j.d. tulloch
The Will to Resist: And Psalms of Anger, Love & Humanity
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Well, then why should we do anything more than once? Should I just smoke this one cigarette? Maybe we should only have sex once, if it's the same thing. Should we just watch one sunset? Or live just one day? Because it's new every time. Each time is a different experience.
- Jane Margolis
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I won't say that all senior citizens who can't master technology should be publicly flogged, but if we made an example of one or two, it might give the others incentive to try harder.
- Chuck Lorre
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
TV is a pornographic cacophony of violence, death obsession, screams, gunfire and drama. You think it's fine because you are damaged.
- Bryant McGill
Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Children playing while in the background the TV blares with screams, gunfire and rape-murder scenes. It seeps in.
- Bryant McGill
Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Grimm: BeeWare (#1.3)" (2011)
Nick Burkhardt: I don't need you for what you know, I need your nose.
Monroe: Oh, I get it. So little Timmy's stuck in a well, you need Lassie to come find him. You really know how to butter a guy up for a favor.
Nick Burkhardt: I've got a '77 Bordeaux in my truck
Monroe: I can maybe catch a scent.
- Grimm
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Change is neither good or bad; it simply is.
[Written by Matthew Weiner]
- Don Draper from 'Mad Men'
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
But reading is different, reading is something you do. With TV, and cinema for that matter, everything’s handed to you on a plate, nothing has to be worked at, they just spoon-feed you. The picture, the sound, the scenery, the atmospheric music in case you haven’t understood what the director’s on about… The creaking door that tells you to be stiff. You have to imagine it all when you’re reading.
- Daniel Pennac
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Usually I spare myself from the news, because if it’s not propaganda, then it’s one threat or another exaggerated to the point of absurdity, or it’s the tragedy of storm-quake-tsunami, of bigotry and oppression misnamed justice, of hatred passed off as righteousness and honor called dishonorable, all jammed in around advertisements in which a gecko sells insurance, a bear sells toilet tissue, a dog sells cars, a gorilla sells investment advisers, a tiger sells cereal, and an elephant sells a drug that will improve your lung capacity, as if no human being in America any longer believes any other human being, but trusts only the recommendations of animals.
- Dean Koontz
Deeply Odd
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Good fantasy fiction: ... explores real human conditions through fantastic metaphors which universalize the characters' individual experiences to speak personally to us all.
- Laura Resnick
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Television has greater power over the lives of most Americans than any educational system, government, or church.
- Kent Hughes
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The amount of educational programming on television today is simply desensitizing. The only reason left to go to school is to see gun violence.
- Bauvard
Some Inspiration for the Overenthusiastic
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Today’s generation didn’t want to watch ancient actors reciting the same tired lines. They wanted to see themselves reflected onscreen –rude, raw, entitled. These kids needed to believe that they themselves were only one daring, controversial act away from being up on that screen themselves.
- Melissa Jo Peltier
Reality Boulevard
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Well, fame is a drug and when you take it away from an addict, things can get ugly.
- Melissa Jo Peltier
Reality Boulevard
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I was going to dine at the television company’s expense with one of the most beautiful women in show business and some television producer with an inferiority complex. In my experience, there’s always a price.
- V.T. Davy
Black Art
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
People love a happy ending. So every episode, I will explain once again that I don't like people. And then Mal will shoot someone. Someone we like. And their puppy.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
On Friday night, I was reading my new book, but my brain got tired, so I decided to watch some television instead.
- Stephen Chbosky
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The problem with our society is that our values aren’t in the right place. There’s an awful lot of bleeding and naked bodies on prime-time networks, but not nearly enough cable television on public programming.
- Bauvard
Some Inspiration for the Overenthusiastic
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Hey, Geekoid!" yelled Duncan Dougal, "Why do you read so much? Don't you know how to watch TV?
- Bruce Coville
My Teacher Is an Alien
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Watching too much TV can triple our hunger for more possessions, while reducing our personal contentment by about 5 percent for every hour a day we watch.
- David Niven
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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