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.
Watching the space shuttle challenger explode on live television was a profound experience for a teenager.
Stereotypes are not actually always proven;
Sometimes they are programmed.
Sometimes they are programmed.
- Tiffany Luard
I am from the generation of children that watched NASA kill a school teacher on live television.
Distractions can make a day feel like an hour.
Junk food is television for tongues.
I don’t really do anything. It’s kinda fun sometimes
- Jay Cutler
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
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.
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.
"He was on again last night."
"He's always on. We couldn't have television without him.
- Don DeLillo
White Noise
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
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
Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
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
Celebrity mentality sometimes misguides us to make wrong choices. That’s why T.V screens sometimes lie to us!
- Israelmore Ayivor
Leaders' Watchwords
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
People want to be told what to do so badly that they'll listen to anyone.
[Written by Andre and Maria Jacquemetton]
[Written by Andre and Maria Jacquemetton]
- Don Draper from 'Mad Men'
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.
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
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
I'm not a Christian, but I have read his book.
Mdanganyifu hudanganya wanaopenda kudanganywa.
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
Fake it. We know you can do that. We’ve seen your sex tape.
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
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.
"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
Watching the space shuttle challenger explode on live television was a profound experience for a teenager.
Stereotypes are not actually always proven;
Sometimes they are programmed.
Sometimes they are programmed.
- Tiffany Luard
I am from the generation of children that watched NASA kill a school teacher on live television.
Distractions can make a day feel like an hour.
Junk food is television for tongues.
I don’t really do anything. It’s kinda fun sometimes
- Jay Cutler
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
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.
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.
"He was on again last night."
"He's always on. We couldn't have television without him.
- Don DeLillo
White Noise
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
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
Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
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
Celebrity mentality sometimes misguides us to make wrong choices. That’s why T.V screens sometimes lie to us!
- Israelmore Ayivor
Leaders' Watchwords
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
People want to be told what to do so badly that they'll listen to anyone.
[Written by Andre and Maria Jacquemetton]
[Written by Andre and Maria Jacquemetton]
- Don Draper from 'Mad Men'
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.
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
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
I'm not a Christian, but I have read his book.
Mdanganyifu hudanganya wanaopenda kudanganywa.
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
Fake it. We know you can do that. We’ve seen your sex tape.
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
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.
"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
Watching the space shuttle challenger explode on live television was a profound experience for a teenager.
Stereotypes are not actually always proven;
Sometimes they are programmed.
Sometimes they are programmed.
- Tiffany Luard
I am from the generation of children that watched NASA kill a school teacher on live television.
Distractions can make a day feel like an hour.
Junk food is television for tongues.
I don’t really do anything. It’s kinda fun sometimes
- Jay Cutler
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
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.
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.
"He was on again last night."
"He's always on. We couldn't have television without him.
- Don DeLillo
White Noise
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
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
Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
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
Celebrity mentality sometimes misguides us to make wrong choices. That’s why T.V screens sometimes lie to us!
- Israelmore Ayivor
Leaders' Watchwords
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
People want to be told what to do so badly that they'll listen to anyone.
[Written by Andre and Maria Jacquemetton]
[Written by Andre and Maria Jacquemetton]
- Don Draper from 'Mad Men'
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.
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
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
I'm not a Christian, but I have read his book.
Mdanganyifu hudanganya wanaopenda kudanganywa.
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
Fake it. We know you can do that. We’ve seen your sex tape.
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
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.
"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