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.
As a television show, and a good one, "Sesame Street" does not encourage children to love school or anything about school. It encourages them to love television.
- Neil Postman.1
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
BBC to axe 450 newsroom jobs... That's because all mainstream media again, they are all repiping the same power structure information and propaganda. So they don't need reporters...
- Dane Wigington.2
The problem with most of us is that we relinquish that little bit of control that we have over our thoughts.We let our minds feed on whatever we come across on television and in social media, and do not pay any attention to the type of information that we are swallowing.
- Dr Prem Jagyasi.3
If your priority is a cinema experience in your own home then you should buy a large screen television, if it is good sleep and health then you should buy a small screen television.
- Steven Magee.4
Real life is not like what you see on TV.
- Bryant A. Loney.5
Sea Breeze Academy
I often wish I could just passively watch people without being expected to participate myself, like television.
- M.E. Thomas.6
Confessions of a Sociopath: A Life Spent Hiding in Plain Sight
Am I dead? Is this heaven? No, I can't be. I'm realizing this as I process my second sensation: discomfort. I turn my head. Ooh, a TV. Maybe it is heaven.
- Karen Bergreen.7
Following Polly
(Things I learned from Lorne Michaels) Producing is about discouraging creativity
- Tina Fey.8
Bossypants
Television isn't any longer the only way to fame, all you need is the internet to break into the game
- Stanley Victor Paskavich.9
Nowadays films and television are what I like to call "Microwave Media". I like mine in the oven, giving the production time to simmer; get the juices flowing, and cooked to perfection. And that takes time. Slow, precious, tempered time. A script is a film's recipe. It's just a piece of paper to the novice cook, but even a recipe needs time to be perfected before it's given to the masses.
- Solange nicole.10
I am a man of science, not someone's snuggle-bunny!
- Chuck Lorre.11
We're so used to events being portrayed in particular ways that when they actually happen to us, and our life bears no resemblance to expectation, we don't really know how we're supposed to respond. Our lives are unrecognizable to us. Should we still try to be happy, when everything seems so flawed and out of kilter and grey? How are we supposed to be content, when everything on television is so much better?
- Michael Marshall.12
The Straw Men
The main purpose of TV, to make you believe in everything you see around you, is real.
And then, direct you, by using your own power against you, to make you go to where they want you to go.
And then, direct you, by using your own power against you, to make you go to where they want you to go.
- VicDo.13
We rarely talk about television, only about what’s on television
- Neil Postman.14
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
in spite of the phenomenal growth of the Internet and mobile devices, I still believe television will continue to be an incredibly important medium for the Church. After all, over the last century, radio never killed movies, and TV never killed radio. Everything finds its level in the media universe.
- Phil Cooke.15
Anyway," continued Mr. Miller, "when I was a kid, people used to sit under the stars at night and look up into the sky and talk about things. They got to know each other. People Today is too busy staring at the television, what I call the idiot box, to talk about anything. That's why there are so many divorces these days. People don't talk
- K. Martin Beckner.16
Chips of Red Paint
Television, my dear Daniel, is the Antichrist, and I can assure you that after only three or four generations, people will no longer even know how to fart on their own. Humans will return to living in caves, to medieval savagery, and to the general state of imbecility that slugs overcame back in the Pleistocene era. Our world will not die as a result of the bomb, as the papers say - it will die of laughter, of banality, of making a joke of everything, and a lousy joke at that.
- Carlos Ruiz Zafón.17
The Shadow of the Wind
Actualmente el pueblo soberano «opina» sobre todo en función de cómo la televisión le induce a opinar. Y en el hecho de conducir la opinión, el poder de la imagen se coloca en el centro de todos los procesos de la política contemporánea.
- Giovanni Sartori.18
Homo videns: La sociedad teledirigida
Statisticians report that television is watched over six hours a day in the average American household. I don't know any fiction writers who live in average American households. I suspect Louise Erdrich might. Actually I have never seen an average American household. Except on TV.
- David Foster Wallace.19
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
Every hour of television that a person watches after the age of twenty-five, the researchers concluded, potentially snips twenty-two minutes off of the viewer's life span.
- Gretchen Reynolds.20
The First 20 Minutes: Surprising Science Reveals How We Can Exercise Better, Train Smarter, Live Longer
...la televisión condiciona fuertemente el proceso electoral, ya sea en la elección de los candidatos, bien en su modo de plantear la batalla electoral, o en la forma de ayudar a vencer al vencedor. Además, la televisión condiciona, o puede condicionar, fuertemente el gobierno, es decir, las decisiones del gobierno: lo que un gobierno puede y no puede hacer, o decidir lo que va a hacer.
- Giovanni Sartori.21
Homo videns: La sociedad teledirigida
If television's a babysitter, the Internet is a drunk librarian who won't shut up.
- Dorothy Gambrell.22
Cat and Girl Volume I
I was about 12 years old and I was sitting watching the television and it was some kind of talent show, you know, and on marches this monkey, this ape, in a pair of red-checked trousers with a little matching jacket holding a ukelele and it started jigging around playing it, and it was looking straight into the camera, straight at me, and I remember thinking, that's it, that'll be me, you know, that'll be me.
- Nick Cave.23
If TV were only an invention to broadcast soccer, it would be justified.
- Roberto Fontanarrosa.24
As a television show, and a good one, "Sesame Street" does not encourage children to love school or anything about school. It encourages them to love television.
- Neil Postman.1
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
BBC to axe 450 newsroom jobs... That's because all mainstream media again, they are all repiping the same power structure information and propaganda. So they don't need reporters...
- Dane Wigington.2
The problem with most of us is that we relinquish that little bit of control that we have over our thoughts.We let our minds feed on whatever we come across on television and in social media, and do not pay any attention to the type of information that we are swallowing.
- Dr Prem Jagyasi.3
If your priority is a cinema experience in your own home then you should buy a large screen television, if it is good sleep and health then you should buy a small screen television.
- Steven Magee.4
Real life is not like what you see on TV.
- Bryant A. Loney.5
Sea Breeze Academy
I often wish I could just passively watch people without being expected to participate myself, like television.
- M.E. Thomas.6
Confessions of a Sociopath: A Life Spent Hiding in Plain Sight
Am I dead? Is this heaven? No, I can't be. I'm realizing this as I process my second sensation: discomfort. I turn my head. Ooh, a TV. Maybe it is heaven.
- Karen Bergreen.7
Following Polly
(Things I learned from Lorne Michaels) Producing is about discouraging creativity
- Tina Fey.8
Bossypants
Television isn't any longer the only way to fame, all you need is the internet to break into the game
- Stanley Victor Paskavich.9
Nowadays films and television are what I like to call "Microwave Media". I like mine in the oven, giving the production time to simmer; get the juices flowing, and cooked to perfection. And that takes time. Slow, precious, tempered time. A script is a film's recipe. It's just a piece of paper to the novice cook, but even a recipe needs time to be perfected before it's given to the masses.
- Solange nicole.10
I am a man of science, not someone's snuggle-bunny!
- Chuck Lorre.11
We're so used to events being portrayed in particular ways that when they actually happen to us, and our life bears no resemblance to expectation, we don't really know how we're supposed to respond. Our lives are unrecognizable to us. Should we still try to be happy, when everything seems so flawed and out of kilter and grey? How are we supposed to be content, when everything on television is so much better?
- Michael Marshall.12
The Straw Men
The main purpose of TV, to make you believe in everything you see around you, is real.
And then, direct you, by using your own power against you, to make you go to where they want you to go.
And then, direct you, by using your own power against you, to make you go to where they want you to go.
- VicDo.13
We rarely talk about television, only about what’s on television
- Neil Postman.14
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
in spite of the phenomenal growth of the Internet and mobile devices, I still believe television will continue to be an incredibly important medium for the Church. After all, over the last century, radio never killed movies, and TV never killed radio. Everything finds its level in the media universe.
- Phil Cooke.15
Anyway," continued Mr. Miller, "when I was a kid, people used to sit under the stars at night and look up into the sky and talk about things. They got to know each other. People Today is too busy staring at the television, what I call the idiot box, to talk about anything. That's why there are so many divorces these days. People don't talk
- K. Martin Beckner.16
Chips of Red Paint
Television, my dear Daniel, is the Antichrist, and I can assure you that after only three or four generations, people will no longer even know how to fart on their own. Humans will return to living in caves, to medieval savagery, and to the general state of imbecility that slugs overcame back in the Pleistocene era. Our world will not die as a result of the bomb, as the papers say - it will die of laughter, of banality, of making a joke of everything, and a lousy joke at that.
- Carlos Ruiz Zafón.17
The Shadow of the Wind
Actualmente el pueblo soberano «opina» sobre todo en función de cómo la televisión le induce a opinar. Y en el hecho de conducir la opinión, el poder de la imagen se coloca en el centro de todos los procesos de la política contemporánea.
- Giovanni Sartori.18
Homo videns: La sociedad teledirigida
Statisticians report that television is watched over six hours a day in the average American household. I don't know any fiction writers who live in average American households. I suspect Louise Erdrich might. Actually I have never seen an average American household. Except on TV.
- David Foster Wallace.19
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
Every hour of television that a person watches after the age of twenty-five, the researchers concluded, potentially snips twenty-two minutes off of the viewer's life span.
- Gretchen Reynolds.20
The First 20 Minutes: Surprising Science Reveals How We Can Exercise Better, Train Smarter, Live Longer
...la televisión condiciona fuertemente el proceso electoral, ya sea en la elección de los candidatos, bien en su modo de plantear la batalla electoral, o en la forma de ayudar a vencer al vencedor. Además, la televisión condiciona, o puede condicionar, fuertemente el gobierno, es decir, las decisiones del gobierno: lo que un gobierno puede y no puede hacer, o decidir lo que va a hacer.
- Giovanni Sartori.21
Homo videns: La sociedad teledirigida
If television's a babysitter, the Internet is a drunk librarian who won't shut up.
- Dorothy Gambrell.22
Cat and Girl Volume I
I was about 12 years old and I was sitting watching the television and it was some kind of talent show, you know, and on marches this monkey, this ape, in a pair of red-checked trousers with a little matching jacket holding a ukelele and it started jigging around playing it, and it was looking straight into the camera, straight at me, and I remember thinking, that's it, that'll be me, you know, that'll be me.
- Nick Cave.23
If TV were only an invention to broadcast soccer, it would be justified.
- Roberto Fontanarrosa.24
As a television show, and a good one, "Sesame Street" does not encourage children to love school or anything about school. It encourages them to love television.
- Neil Postman.1
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
BBC to axe 450 newsroom jobs... That's because all mainstream media again, they are all repiping the same power structure information and propaganda. So they don't need reporters...
- Dane Wigington.2
The problem with most of us is that we relinquish that little bit of control that we have over our thoughts.We let our minds feed on whatever we come across on television and in social media, and do not pay any attention to the type of information that we are swallowing.
- Dr Prem Jagyasi.3
If your priority is a cinema experience in your own home then you should buy a large screen television, if it is good sleep and health then you should buy a small screen television.
- Steven Magee.4
Real life is not like what you see on TV.
- Bryant A. Loney.5
Sea Breeze Academy
I often wish I could just passively watch people without being expected to participate myself, like television.
- M.E. Thomas.6
Confessions of a Sociopath: A Life Spent Hiding in Plain Sight
Am I dead? Is this heaven? No, I can't be. I'm realizing this as I process my second sensation: discomfort. I turn my head. Ooh, a TV. Maybe it is heaven.
- Karen Bergreen.7
Following Polly
(Things I learned from Lorne Michaels) Producing is about discouraging creativity
- Tina Fey.8
Bossypants
Television isn't any longer the only way to fame, all you need is the internet to break into the game
- Stanley Victor Paskavich.9
Nowadays films and television are what I like to call "Microwave Media". I like mine in the oven, giving the production time to simmer; get the juices flowing, and cooked to perfection. And that takes time. Slow, precious, tempered time. A script is a film's recipe. It's just a piece of paper to the novice cook, but even a recipe needs time to be perfected before it's given to the masses.
- Solange nicole.10
I am a man of science, not someone's snuggle-bunny!
- Chuck Lorre.11
We're so used to events being portrayed in particular ways that when they actually happen to us, and our life bears no resemblance to expectation, we don't really know how we're supposed to respond. Our lives are unrecognizable to us. Should we still try to be happy, when everything seems so flawed and out of kilter and grey? How are we supposed to be content, when everything on television is so much better?
- Michael Marshall.12
The Straw Men
The main purpose of TV, to make you believe in everything you see around you, is real.
And then, direct you, by using your own power against you, to make you go to where they want you to go.
And then, direct you, by using your own power against you, to make you go to where they want you to go.
- VicDo.13
We rarely talk about television, only about what’s on television
- Neil Postman.14
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
in spite of the phenomenal growth of the Internet and mobile devices, I still believe television will continue to be an incredibly important medium for the Church. After all, over the last century, radio never killed movies, and TV never killed radio. Everything finds its level in the media universe.
- Phil Cooke.15
Anyway," continued Mr. Miller, "when I was a kid, people used to sit under the stars at night and look up into the sky and talk about things. They got to know each other. People Today is too busy staring at the television, what I call the idiot box, to talk about anything. That's why there are so many divorces these days. People don't talk
- K. Martin Beckner.16
Chips of Red Paint
Television, my dear Daniel, is the Antichrist, and I can assure you that after only three or four generations, people will no longer even know how to fart on their own. Humans will return to living in caves, to medieval savagery, and to the general state of imbecility that slugs overcame back in the Pleistocene era. Our world will not die as a result of the bomb, as the papers say - it will die of laughter, of banality, of making a joke of everything, and a lousy joke at that.
- Carlos Ruiz Zafón.17
The Shadow of the Wind
Actualmente el pueblo soberano «opina» sobre todo en función de cómo la televisión le induce a opinar. Y en el hecho de conducir la opinión, el poder de la imagen se coloca en el centro de todos los procesos de la política contemporánea.
- Giovanni Sartori.18
Homo videns: La sociedad teledirigida
Statisticians report that television is watched over six hours a day in the average American household. I don't know any fiction writers who live in average American households. I suspect Louise Erdrich might. Actually I have never seen an average American household. Except on TV.
- David Foster Wallace.19
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
Every hour of television that a person watches after the age of twenty-five, the researchers concluded, potentially snips twenty-two minutes off of the viewer's life span.
- Gretchen Reynolds.20
The First 20 Minutes: Surprising Science Reveals How We Can Exercise Better, Train Smarter, Live Longer
...la televisión condiciona fuertemente el proceso electoral, ya sea en la elección de los candidatos, bien en su modo de plantear la batalla electoral, o en la forma de ayudar a vencer al vencedor. Además, la televisión condiciona, o puede condicionar, fuertemente el gobierno, es decir, las decisiones del gobierno: lo que un gobierno puede y no puede hacer, o decidir lo que va a hacer.
- Giovanni Sartori.21
Homo videns: La sociedad teledirigida
If television's a babysitter, the Internet is a drunk librarian who won't shut up.
- Dorothy Gambrell.22
Cat and Girl Volume I
I was about 12 years old and I was sitting watching the television and it was some kind of talent show, you know, and on marches this monkey, this ape, in a pair of red-checked trousers with a little matching jacket holding a ukelele and it started jigging around playing it, and it was looking straight into the camera, straight at me, and I remember thinking, that's it, that'll be me, you know, that'll be me.
- Nick Cave.23
If TV were only an invention to broadcast soccer, it would be justified.
- Roberto Fontanarrosa.24
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