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.
A combination of television and the stresses peculiar to two-income or single-parent families has swallowed up most of what used to be family time as well. Our kids have no time left to grow up fully human and only thin-soil wastelands to do it in.
- John Taylor Gatto
Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
Separating the art from the artist is hard to do when the art is so interconnected with who the artist is as a person.
- Dominique Davis
Living Rent Free In My Head: Essays On Pop Culture
As Jake the Dog from Adventure Time says: "Sucking at something is the first step to becoming sorta good at something.
- Emilie Wapnick
How to Be Everything
Unfettered spaces scare me. I’m not used to scenes that aren’t in a frame. Looking at a picture inside a border always calms me down, whether it’s an ultravista or the real thing. It’s probably from all the TV.
- Izumi Suzuki
Terminal Boredom: Stories
Fico na frente da televisão para aumentar o meu ódio. Quando minha cólera está diminuindo e eu perco a vontade de cobrar o que me devem eu sento na frente da televisão e em pouco tempo meu ódio volta.
- Rubem Fonseca
O Cobrador
...c’est nous qui, dans cette phase, avons reconstruit l’imaginaire collectif du pays. Toutes les autres institutions s’étant écroulées, c’était à la télévision d’indiquer le chemin.
- Giuliano da Empoli
Le Mage du Kremlin
Most Amerikans do not read books--they prefer television. Academics lock books in a tangled web of mindfuck and abstraction. The notion is that there are ideas, then art, then somewhere else, unrelated, life.
- Andrea Dworkin
Last Days at Hot Slit: The Radical Feminism of Andrea Dworkin
What the f-f-f... What's that supposed to mean?" the reporter sputtered. The TV cameraman behind him was laughing. TV people ranked radio people, so laughing was all right.
"What's 'f-f-f' supposed to mean?" Lester asked. He turned away and pointed to a woman wearing glasses the size of compact discs. "You."
"What precautions should women in the Twin Cities take?" She had an improbably smooth delivery, with great round O's, as though she were reading for a play.
"What's 'f-f-f' supposed to mean?" Lester asked. He turned away and pointed to a woman wearing glasses the size of compact discs. "You."
"What precautions should women in the Twin Cities take?" She had an improbably smooth delivery, with great round O's, as though she were reading for a play.
- John Sandford
Eyes of Prey
Apparently advertisers don't like clever or insightful television programmes because such fare encourages people to discuss what they've seen during the ad breaks. This would explain much about the current state of broadcasting.
- Sandi Toksvig
The Chain of Curiosity
Rich people have small TVs, small cars, but big libraries.
- Manoj Arora
From the Rat Race to Financial Freedom
However little television you watch, watch less.
- David McCullough
TRUE Hebrew Israelites DO NOT hate white people.
TRUE Hebrew Israelites DO NOT have more than one wife.
TRUE Hebrew Israelites DO NOT smoke marijuana or do any other types of drugs
TRUE Hebrew Israelites DO NOT have to stand on corners Intimidating people into believing the way.
TRUE Hebrew Israelites DO NOT have more than one wife.
TRUE Hebrew Israelites DO NOT smoke marijuana or do any other types of drugs
TRUE Hebrew Israelites DO NOT have to stand on corners Intimidating people into believing the way.
- Alex Hartley Jr.
Television is all right, I’ve nothing against it, but I don’t like how it turns you away from the rest of the world and toward nothing but its own glassy self. In that one way, at least, radio was better.
- Stephen King
The Green Mile
There's a hum that happens inside my head when I hit a certain writing rhythm, a certain speed. When laying track goes from feeling like climbing a mountain on my hands and knees to feeling like flying effortlessly through the air. Like breaking the sound barrier. everything inside me just shifts. I break the writing barrier. And the feeling of laying track changes, transforms, shifts from exertion into exultation.
- Shonda Rhimes
Year of Yes
Since I got rid of syndicated and indoctrinated media my life is a product of what I seek and not what I am told. I recommend everyone in the age of information to demand more of what they seek rather simply pushing the favorite list on their remote control.
- James Emlund
I've tried to tell the truth. But I would say that, wouldn't I? In any case it has to be my truth. What other truth could I possibly know?
- Tony Garnett
The Day the Music Died: A Memoir
The old Televisions had an off switch.
- Chris Bachelder
I'm just an actor. My performance is not more important than your life. Stop watching. We're false images designed to sell you products by exploiting your insecurities. To make you spectators in life, not participants.
- Grant Morrison
The Invisibles, Vol. 5: Counting to None
A healthy man watched what he ate. An intelligent man watched what he watched.
Even if tomorrow will be the end of the world, people will still continue to watch television for whole day!
- Mehmet Murat ildan
Texting and phone calls, fireworks, blends, café au lait, and music. Yesterday's television. Work and beer. The neighbor's dog, or those strange flowers, the way it smells at Maisen. Those ordinary things I talk about with you. With you... I want to talk about love with you.
- Tomoko Yamashita
恋の話がしたい [Koi no Hanashi ga Shitai]
Not only it is annoying, it is distracting from life itself.
~on what TV is.
~on what TV is.
- R.K. Cowles
The Hodgepodge of Poetized Morsels Parts 1 Through 6
It's nice to watch television but it's even nicer when you've got a drink in your hand,' Gregory Ratcliffe, a Birmingham shopkeeper, told Reynolds News. 'Makes it more intimate somehow. Gives you the feeling that you're in a posh cabaret.
- David Kynaston
Modernity Britain: Opening the Box, 1957-59
Doc didn’t have a television but he could predict that sort of thing. He just didn’t need one. He could always tell what was on TV when he heard more than two people in a row say the same strange phrase in the same way. He knew that they had just seen it on television. A few weeks later everyone would have those words written on their chests.
- Sarah Schulman
Empathy
A combination of television and the stresses peculiar to two-income or single-parent families has swallowed up most of what used to be family time as well. Our kids have no time left to grow up fully human and only thin-soil wastelands to do it in.
- John Taylor Gatto
Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
Separating the art from the artist is hard to do when the art is so interconnected with who the artist is as a person.
- Dominique Davis
Living Rent Free In My Head: Essays On Pop Culture
As Jake the Dog from Adventure Time says: "Sucking at something is the first step to becoming sorta good at something.
- Emilie Wapnick
How to Be Everything
Unfettered spaces scare me. I’m not used to scenes that aren’t in a frame. Looking at a picture inside a border always calms me down, whether it’s an ultravista or the real thing. It’s probably from all the TV.
- Izumi Suzuki
Terminal Boredom: Stories
Fico na frente da televisão para aumentar o meu ódio. Quando minha cólera está diminuindo e eu perco a vontade de cobrar o que me devem eu sento na frente da televisão e em pouco tempo meu ódio volta.
- Rubem Fonseca
O Cobrador
...c’est nous qui, dans cette phase, avons reconstruit l’imaginaire collectif du pays. Toutes les autres institutions s’étant écroulées, c’était à la télévision d’indiquer le chemin.
- Giuliano da Empoli
Le Mage du Kremlin
Most Amerikans do not read books--they prefer television. Academics lock books in a tangled web of mindfuck and abstraction. The notion is that there are ideas, then art, then somewhere else, unrelated, life.
- Andrea Dworkin
Last Days at Hot Slit: The Radical Feminism of Andrea Dworkin
What the f-f-f... What's that supposed to mean?" the reporter sputtered. The TV cameraman behind him was laughing. TV people ranked radio people, so laughing was all right.
"What's 'f-f-f' supposed to mean?" Lester asked. He turned away and pointed to a woman wearing glasses the size of compact discs. "You."
"What precautions should women in the Twin Cities take?" She had an improbably smooth delivery, with great round O's, as though she were reading for a play.
"What's 'f-f-f' supposed to mean?" Lester asked. He turned away and pointed to a woman wearing glasses the size of compact discs. "You."
"What precautions should women in the Twin Cities take?" She had an improbably smooth delivery, with great round O's, as though she were reading for a play.
- John Sandford
Eyes of Prey
Apparently advertisers don't like clever or insightful television programmes because such fare encourages people to discuss what they've seen during the ad breaks. This would explain much about the current state of broadcasting.
- Sandi Toksvig
The Chain of Curiosity
Rich people have small TVs, small cars, but big libraries.
- Manoj Arora
From the Rat Race to Financial Freedom
However little television you watch, watch less.
- David McCullough
TRUE Hebrew Israelites DO NOT hate white people.
TRUE Hebrew Israelites DO NOT have more than one wife.
TRUE Hebrew Israelites DO NOT smoke marijuana or do any other types of drugs
TRUE Hebrew Israelites DO NOT have to stand on corners Intimidating people into believing the way.
TRUE Hebrew Israelites DO NOT have more than one wife.
TRUE Hebrew Israelites DO NOT smoke marijuana or do any other types of drugs
TRUE Hebrew Israelites DO NOT have to stand on corners Intimidating people into believing the way.
- Alex Hartley Jr.
Television is all right, I’ve nothing against it, but I don’t like how it turns you away from the rest of the world and toward nothing but its own glassy self. In that one way, at least, radio was better.
- Stephen King
The Green Mile
There's a hum that happens inside my head when I hit a certain writing rhythm, a certain speed. When laying track goes from feeling like climbing a mountain on my hands and knees to feeling like flying effortlessly through the air. Like breaking the sound barrier. everything inside me just shifts. I break the writing barrier. And the feeling of laying track changes, transforms, shifts from exertion into exultation.
- Shonda Rhimes
Year of Yes
Since I got rid of syndicated and indoctrinated media my life is a product of what I seek and not what I am told. I recommend everyone in the age of information to demand more of what they seek rather simply pushing the favorite list on their remote control.
- James Emlund
I've tried to tell the truth. But I would say that, wouldn't I? In any case it has to be my truth. What other truth could I possibly know?
- Tony Garnett
The Day the Music Died: A Memoir
The old Televisions had an off switch.
- Chris Bachelder
I'm just an actor. My performance is not more important than your life. Stop watching. We're false images designed to sell you products by exploiting your insecurities. To make you spectators in life, not participants.
- Grant Morrison
The Invisibles, Vol. 5: Counting to None
A healthy man watched what he ate. An intelligent man watched what he watched.
Even if tomorrow will be the end of the world, people will still continue to watch television for whole day!
- Mehmet Murat ildan
Texting and phone calls, fireworks, blends, café au lait, and music. Yesterday's television. Work and beer. The neighbor's dog, or those strange flowers, the way it smells at Maisen. Those ordinary things I talk about with you. With you... I want to talk about love with you.
- Tomoko Yamashita
恋の話がしたい [Koi no Hanashi ga Shitai]
Not only it is annoying, it is distracting from life itself.
~on what TV is.
~on what TV is.
- R.K. Cowles
The Hodgepodge of Poetized Morsels Parts 1 Through 6
It's nice to watch television but it's even nicer when you've got a drink in your hand,' Gregory Ratcliffe, a Birmingham shopkeeper, told Reynolds News. 'Makes it more intimate somehow. Gives you the feeling that you're in a posh cabaret.
- David Kynaston
Modernity Britain: Opening the Box, 1957-59
Doc didn’t have a television but he could predict that sort of thing. He just didn’t need one. He could always tell what was on TV when he heard more than two people in a row say the same strange phrase in the same way. He knew that they had just seen it on television. A few weeks later everyone would have those words written on their chests.
- Sarah Schulman
Empathy
A combination of television and the stresses peculiar to two-income or single-parent families has swallowed up most of what used to be family time as well. Our kids have no time left to grow up fully human and only thin-soil wastelands to do it in.
- John Taylor Gatto
Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
Separating the art from the artist is hard to do when the art is so interconnected with who the artist is as a person.
- Dominique Davis
Living Rent Free In My Head: Essays On Pop Culture
As Jake the Dog from Adventure Time says: "Sucking at something is the first step to becoming sorta good at something.
- Emilie Wapnick
How to Be Everything
Unfettered spaces scare me. I’m not used to scenes that aren’t in a frame. Looking at a picture inside a border always calms me down, whether it’s an ultravista or the real thing. It’s probably from all the TV.
- Izumi Suzuki
Terminal Boredom: Stories
Fico na frente da televisão para aumentar o meu ódio. Quando minha cólera está diminuindo e eu perco a vontade de cobrar o que me devem eu sento na frente da televisão e em pouco tempo meu ódio volta.
- Rubem Fonseca
O Cobrador
...c’est nous qui, dans cette phase, avons reconstruit l’imaginaire collectif du pays. Toutes les autres institutions s’étant écroulées, c’était à la télévision d’indiquer le chemin.
- Giuliano da Empoli
Le Mage du Kremlin
Most Amerikans do not read books--they prefer television. Academics lock books in a tangled web of mindfuck and abstraction. The notion is that there are ideas, then art, then somewhere else, unrelated, life.
- Andrea Dworkin
Last Days at Hot Slit: The Radical Feminism of Andrea Dworkin
What the f-f-f... What's that supposed to mean?" the reporter sputtered. The TV cameraman behind him was laughing. TV people ranked radio people, so laughing was all right.
"What's 'f-f-f' supposed to mean?" Lester asked. He turned away and pointed to a woman wearing glasses the size of compact discs. "You."
"What precautions should women in the Twin Cities take?" She had an improbably smooth delivery, with great round O's, as though she were reading for a play.
"What's 'f-f-f' supposed to mean?" Lester asked. He turned away and pointed to a woman wearing glasses the size of compact discs. "You."
"What precautions should women in the Twin Cities take?" She had an improbably smooth delivery, with great round O's, as though she were reading for a play.
- John Sandford
Eyes of Prey
Apparently advertisers don't like clever or insightful television programmes because such fare encourages people to discuss what they've seen during the ad breaks. This would explain much about the current state of broadcasting.
- Sandi Toksvig
The Chain of Curiosity
Rich people have small TVs, small cars, but big libraries.
- Manoj Arora
From the Rat Race to Financial Freedom
However little television you watch, watch less.
- David McCullough
TRUE Hebrew Israelites DO NOT hate white people.
TRUE Hebrew Israelites DO NOT have more than one wife.
TRUE Hebrew Israelites DO NOT smoke marijuana or do any other types of drugs
TRUE Hebrew Israelites DO NOT have to stand on corners Intimidating people into believing the way.
TRUE Hebrew Israelites DO NOT have more than one wife.
TRUE Hebrew Israelites DO NOT smoke marijuana or do any other types of drugs
TRUE Hebrew Israelites DO NOT have to stand on corners Intimidating people into believing the way.
- Alex Hartley Jr.
Television is all right, I’ve nothing against it, but I don’t like how it turns you away from the rest of the world and toward nothing but its own glassy self. In that one way, at least, radio was better.
- Stephen King
The Green Mile
There's a hum that happens inside my head when I hit a certain writing rhythm, a certain speed. When laying track goes from feeling like climbing a mountain on my hands and knees to feeling like flying effortlessly through the air. Like breaking the sound barrier. everything inside me just shifts. I break the writing barrier. And the feeling of laying track changes, transforms, shifts from exertion into exultation.
- Shonda Rhimes
Year of Yes
Since I got rid of syndicated and indoctrinated media my life is a product of what I seek and not what I am told. I recommend everyone in the age of information to demand more of what they seek rather simply pushing the favorite list on their remote control.
- James Emlund
I've tried to tell the truth. But I would say that, wouldn't I? In any case it has to be my truth. What other truth could I possibly know?
- Tony Garnett
The Day the Music Died: A Memoir
The old Televisions had an off switch.
- Chris Bachelder
I'm just an actor. My performance is not more important than your life. Stop watching. We're false images designed to sell you products by exploiting your insecurities. To make you spectators in life, not participants.
- Grant Morrison
The Invisibles, Vol. 5: Counting to None
A healthy man watched what he ate. An intelligent man watched what he watched.
Even if tomorrow will be the end of the world, people will still continue to watch television for whole day!
- Mehmet Murat ildan
Texting and phone calls, fireworks, blends, café au lait, and music. Yesterday's television. Work and beer. The neighbor's dog, or those strange flowers, the way it smells at Maisen. Those ordinary things I talk about with you. With you... I want to talk about love with you.
- Tomoko Yamashita
恋の話がしたい [Koi no Hanashi ga Shitai]
Not only it is annoying, it is distracting from life itself.
~on what TV is.
~on what TV is.
- R.K. Cowles
The Hodgepodge of Poetized Morsels Parts 1 Through 6
It's nice to watch television but it's even nicer when you've got a drink in your hand,' Gregory Ratcliffe, a Birmingham shopkeeper, told Reynolds News. 'Makes it more intimate somehow. Gives you the feeling that you're in a posh cabaret.
- David Kynaston
Modernity Britain: Opening the Box, 1957-59
Doc didn’t have a television but he could predict that sort of thing. He just didn’t need one. He could always tell what was on TV when he heard more than two people in a row say the same strange phrase in the same way. He knew that they had just seen it on television. A few weeks later everyone would have those words written on their chests.
- Sarah Schulman
Empathy