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.
Nuclear weapons and TV have simply intensified the consequences of our tendencies.
- David Foster Wallace.1
FRUITS AND NUTS
Keep jumping around them like monkeys.
The clones,
Commercialized zombies,
And the TV junkies.
Keep throwing berries,
Twigs,
And nuts at them.
Until they wake up
To see what's up
And figure out why
We're laughing at 'em.
Keep jumping around them like monkeys.
The clones,
Commercialized zombies,
And the TV junkies.
Keep throwing berries,
Twigs,
And nuts at them.
Until they wake up
To see what's up
And figure out why
We're laughing at 'em.
- Suzy Kassem.2
Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
A fish tank is just interactive television for cats.
- Oliver Gaspirtz.3
A Treasury of Pet Humor
I’ve noticed that you are retarded, Dr. Phil.
- Christy Leigh Stewart.4
We have become a more juvenile culture. We have become a childish "me, me, me" culture with fifteen-second attention spans. The global village that television was supposed to bring is less a village than a playground...
Little attempt is made to pass on our cultural inheritance, and our moral and religious traditions are neglected except in the shallow "family values" arguments.
Little attempt is made to pass on our cultural inheritance, and our moral and religious traditions are neglected except in the shallow "family values" arguments.
- Wes Jackson.5
Becoming Native to This Place
She jackknifed on the couch, screaming so loud that it could be heard clear to Orlando. This was it. Her Dateline moment. A robbery gone wrong. Or was it?, questioned Keith Morrison.
- Tessa Bailey.6
Fangirl Down
The mark of any good show is that you cannot remember it, no matter how much you yearn to. That from the very second the curtains close the whole thing slips through your fingers like grains of sand until all you’re left with, if you’re lucky, is the feeling. You should be struck by the sense that something
- Bea Fitzgerald.7
Then Things Went Dark
The Catholic faith gives such hope and solace to its followers as they seek salvation through a litany of shalts and shalt nots, but compassion for our fellows is a quality that requires little knowledge and is, I think, the true redemption, after all.
- Mary Tyler Moore.8
After All
The 'better angels of our nature' may be the ones we want leading us forward, but the worser angels are the ones that we seem to want to watch onscreen.
- Bob Odenkirk.9
Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama
What is happening here is that television is altering the meaning of "being informed" by creating a species of information that might properly be called disinformation. I am using this word almost in the precise sense in which it is used by spies in the CIA or KGB. Disinformation does not mean false information. It means misleading information-misplaced, irrelevant, fragmented or superficial information-information that creates the illusion of knowing something but which in fact leads one away from knowing.
- Neil Postman.10
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
What the advertiser needs to know is not what is right about the product but what is wrong about the buyer. And so, the balance of business expenditures shifts from product research to market research. The television commercial has oriented business away from making products of value and toward making consumers feel valuable, which means that the business of business has now become pseudo-therapy. The consumer is a patient assured by psycho-dramas.
- Neil Postman.11
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
If you were repeatedly taking your broken television to a repair shop for the same fault, you would be annoyed. Unfortunately, millions of sick people are having a similar experience with their doctors visits for their ailing health. Lots of visits for the same problems that never get fixed.
- Steven Magee.12
If you think this has a happy ending, you haven't been paying attention.
- Game of Thrones (tv).13
If a Writer births the baby, then a Producer raises the child and sends it off to school.”
― Rona Edwards, I Liked It, Didn't Love It: Screenplay Development from the Inside Out
― Rona Edwards, I Liked It, Didn't Love It: Screenplay Development from the Inside Out
- Rona Edwards.14
I Liked It, Didn't Love It: Screenplay Development from the Inside Out
Artists are the architects of our future. The messages they deliver through music, film and television are what guides popular culture. If we want to see more love, peace and prosperity in the world, artists must take responsibility and lead.
- TAMMY (McCrary).15
Watching hours of television seemed to help, but it took brainpower to be so dumb.
- Chuck Palahniuk.16
Make Something Up: Stories You Can't Unread
I did not bring a television set out here with me, and I regret it sometimes when the evenings get long, but my idea was that living alone you can soon get stuck to those flickering images and to the chair you will sit on far into the night, and then time merely passes as you let others do the moving.
- Per Petterson.17
The television set is not the 'devil's box' anymore.
- Steven Chopade.18
The theater has been called the pulse of the people.
- Abigail Adams.19
There was one moment of intersection, when the topic of hate-watching came up. "Why do you watch TV shows--and keep watching them--if you don't like them?" Terrence asked.
Simple: Some days, all you have is gazing upon horror, and the small comfort of being surprised that it is not yours.
Simple: Some days, all you have is gazing upon horror, and the small comfort of being surprised that it is not yours.
- Colson Whitehead.20
The Noble Hustle: Poker, Beef Jerky, and Death
The only private sector industry where employees work with their lives on stake for the interest of common people is media industry.
- Amit Kalantri.21
Fernsehen macht die Klugen klüger und die Dummen dümmer.
- Marcel Reich-Ranicky.22
Are your kids better off watching 10 hours of Nickelodeon and the Disney Channel every week?
- Ian Lamont.23
Personal Finance For Beginners In 30 Minutes, Volume 1: How to cut expenses, reduce debt, and better align spending & priorities
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.24
The Right Attitude to Rain
Nuclear weapons and TV have simply intensified the consequences of our tendencies.
- David Foster Wallace.1
FRUITS AND NUTS
Keep jumping around them like monkeys.
The clones,
Commercialized zombies,
And the TV junkies.
Keep throwing berries,
Twigs,
And nuts at them.
Until they wake up
To see what's up
And figure out why
We're laughing at 'em.
Keep jumping around them like monkeys.
The clones,
Commercialized zombies,
And the TV junkies.
Keep throwing berries,
Twigs,
And nuts at them.
Until they wake up
To see what's up
And figure out why
We're laughing at 'em.
- Suzy Kassem.2
Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
A fish tank is just interactive television for cats.
- Oliver Gaspirtz.3
A Treasury of Pet Humor
I’ve noticed that you are retarded, Dr. Phil.
- Christy Leigh Stewart.4
We have become a more juvenile culture. We have become a childish "me, me, me" culture with fifteen-second attention spans. The global village that television was supposed to bring is less a village than a playground...
Little attempt is made to pass on our cultural inheritance, and our moral and religious traditions are neglected except in the shallow "family values" arguments.
Little attempt is made to pass on our cultural inheritance, and our moral and religious traditions are neglected except in the shallow "family values" arguments.
- Wes Jackson.5
Becoming Native to This Place
She jackknifed on the couch, screaming so loud that it could be heard clear to Orlando. This was it. Her Dateline moment. A robbery gone wrong. Or was it?, questioned Keith Morrison.
- Tessa Bailey.6
Fangirl Down
The mark of any good show is that you cannot remember it, no matter how much you yearn to. That from the very second the curtains close the whole thing slips through your fingers like grains of sand until all you’re left with, if you’re lucky, is the feeling. You should be struck by the sense that something
- Bea Fitzgerald.7
Then Things Went Dark
The Catholic faith gives such hope and solace to its followers as they seek salvation through a litany of shalts and shalt nots, but compassion for our fellows is a quality that requires little knowledge and is, I think, the true redemption, after all.
- Mary Tyler Moore.8
After All
The 'better angels of our nature' may be the ones we want leading us forward, but the worser angels are the ones that we seem to want to watch onscreen.
- Bob Odenkirk.9
Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama
What is happening here is that television is altering the meaning of "being informed" by creating a species of information that might properly be called disinformation. I am using this word almost in the precise sense in which it is used by spies in the CIA or KGB. Disinformation does not mean false information. It means misleading information-misplaced, irrelevant, fragmented or superficial information-information that creates the illusion of knowing something but which in fact leads one away from knowing.
- Neil Postman.10
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
What the advertiser needs to know is not what is right about the product but what is wrong about the buyer. And so, the balance of business expenditures shifts from product research to market research. The television commercial has oriented business away from making products of value and toward making consumers feel valuable, which means that the business of business has now become pseudo-therapy. The consumer is a patient assured by psycho-dramas.
- Neil Postman.11
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
If you were repeatedly taking your broken television to a repair shop for the same fault, you would be annoyed. Unfortunately, millions of sick people are having a similar experience with their doctors visits for their ailing health. Lots of visits for the same problems that never get fixed.
- Steven Magee.12
If you think this has a happy ending, you haven't been paying attention.
- Game of Thrones (tv).13
If a Writer births the baby, then a Producer raises the child and sends it off to school.”
― Rona Edwards, I Liked It, Didn't Love It: Screenplay Development from the Inside Out
― Rona Edwards, I Liked It, Didn't Love It: Screenplay Development from the Inside Out
- Rona Edwards.14
I Liked It, Didn't Love It: Screenplay Development from the Inside Out
Artists are the architects of our future. The messages they deliver through music, film and television are what guides popular culture. If we want to see more love, peace and prosperity in the world, artists must take responsibility and lead.
- TAMMY (McCrary).15
Watching hours of television seemed to help, but it took brainpower to be so dumb.
- Chuck Palahniuk.16
Make Something Up: Stories You Can't Unread
I did not bring a television set out here with me, and I regret it sometimes when the evenings get long, but my idea was that living alone you can soon get stuck to those flickering images and to the chair you will sit on far into the night, and then time merely passes as you let others do the moving.
- Per Petterson.17
The television set is not the 'devil's box' anymore.
- Steven Chopade.18
The theater has been called the pulse of the people.
- Abigail Adams.19
There was one moment of intersection, when the topic of hate-watching came up. "Why do you watch TV shows--and keep watching them--if you don't like them?" Terrence asked.
Simple: Some days, all you have is gazing upon horror, and the small comfort of being surprised that it is not yours.
Simple: Some days, all you have is gazing upon horror, and the small comfort of being surprised that it is not yours.
- Colson Whitehead.20
The Noble Hustle: Poker, Beef Jerky, and Death
The only private sector industry where employees work with their lives on stake for the interest of common people is media industry.
- Amit Kalantri.21
Fernsehen macht die Klugen klüger und die Dummen dümmer.
- Marcel Reich-Ranicky.22
Are your kids better off watching 10 hours of Nickelodeon and the Disney Channel every week?
- Ian Lamont.23
Personal Finance For Beginners In 30 Minutes, Volume 1: How to cut expenses, reduce debt, and better align spending & priorities
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.24
The Right Attitude to Rain
Nuclear weapons and TV have simply intensified the consequences of our tendencies.
- David Foster Wallace.1
FRUITS AND NUTS
Keep jumping around them like monkeys.
The clones,
Commercialized zombies,
And the TV junkies.
Keep throwing berries,
Twigs,
And nuts at them.
Until they wake up
To see what's up
And figure out why
We're laughing at 'em.
Keep jumping around them like monkeys.
The clones,
Commercialized zombies,
And the TV junkies.
Keep throwing berries,
Twigs,
And nuts at them.
Until they wake up
To see what's up
And figure out why
We're laughing at 'em.
- Suzy Kassem.2
Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
A fish tank is just interactive television for cats.
- Oliver Gaspirtz.3
A Treasury of Pet Humor
I’ve noticed that you are retarded, Dr. Phil.
- Christy Leigh Stewart.4
We have become a more juvenile culture. We have become a childish "me, me, me" culture with fifteen-second attention spans. The global village that television was supposed to bring is less a village than a playground...
Little attempt is made to pass on our cultural inheritance, and our moral and religious traditions are neglected except in the shallow "family values" arguments.
Little attempt is made to pass on our cultural inheritance, and our moral and religious traditions are neglected except in the shallow "family values" arguments.
- Wes Jackson.5
Becoming Native to This Place
She jackknifed on the couch, screaming so loud that it could be heard clear to Orlando. This was it. Her Dateline moment. A robbery gone wrong. Or was it?, questioned Keith Morrison.
- Tessa Bailey.6
Fangirl Down
The mark of any good show is that you cannot remember it, no matter how much you yearn to. That from the very second the curtains close the whole thing slips through your fingers like grains of sand until all you’re left with, if you’re lucky, is the feeling. You should be struck by the sense that something
- Bea Fitzgerald.7
Then Things Went Dark
The Catholic faith gives such hope and solace to its followers as they seek salvation through a litany of shalts and shalt nots, but compassion for our fellows is a quality that requires little knowledge and is, I think, the true redemption, after all.
- Mary Tyler Moore.8
After All
The 'better angels of our nature' may be the ones we want leading us forward, but the worser angels are the ones that we seem to want to watch onscreen.
- Bob Odenkirk.9
Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama
What is happening here is that television is altering the meaning of "being informed" by creating a species of information that might properly be called disinformation. I am using this word almost in the precise sense in which it is used by spies in the CIA or KGB. Disinformation does not mean false information. It means misleading information-misplaced, irrelevant, fragmented or superficial information-information that creates the illusion of knowing something but which in fact leads one away from knowing.
- Neil Postman.10
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
What the advertiser needs to know is not what is right about the product but what is wrong about the buyer. And so, the balance of business expenditures shifts from product research to market research. The television commercial has oriented business away from making products of value and toward making consumers feel valuable, which means that the business of business has now become pseudo-therapy. The consumer is a patient assured by psycho-dramas.
- Neil Postman.11
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
If you were repeatedly taking your broken television to a repair shop for the same fault, you would be annoyed. Unfortunately, millions of sick people are having a similar experience with their doctors visits for their ailing health. Lots of visits for the same problems that never get fixed.
- Steven Magee.12
If you think this has a happy ending, you haven't been paying attention.
- Game of Thrones (tv).13
If a Writer births the baby, then a Producer raises the child and sends it off to school.”
― Rona Edwards, I Liked It, Didn't Love It: Screenplay Development from the Inside Out
― Rona Edwards, I Liked It, Didn't Love It: Screenplay Development from the Inside Out
- Rona Edwards.14
I Liked It, Didn't Love It: Screenplay Development from the Inside Out
Artists are the architects of our future. The messages they deliver through music, film and television are what guides popular culture. If we want to see more love, peace and prosperity in the world, artists must take responsibility and lead.
- TAMMY (McCrary).15
Watching hours of television seemed to help, but it took brainpower to be so dumb.
- Chuck Palahniuk.16
Make Something Up: Stories You Can't Unread
I did not bring a television set out here with me, and I regret it sometimes when the evenings get long, but my idea was that living alone you can soon get stuck to those flickering images and to the chair you will sit on far into the night, and then time merely passes as you let others do the moving.
- Per Petterson.17
The television set is not the 'devil's box' anymore.
- Steven Chopade.18
The theater has been called the pulse of the people.
- Abigail Adams.19
There was one moment of intersection, when the topic of hate-watching came up. "Why do you watch TV shows--and keep watching them--if you don't like them?" Terrence asked.
Simple: Some days, all you have is gazing upon horror, and the small comfort of being surprised that it is not yours.
Simple: Some days, all you have is gazing upon horror, and the small comfort of being surprised that it is not yours.
- Colson Whitehead.20
The Noble Hustle: Poker, Beef Jerky, and Death
The only private sector industry where employees work with their lives on stake for the interest of common people is media industry.
- Amit Kalantri.21
Fernsehen macht die Klugen klüger und die Dummen dümmer.
- Marcel Reich-Ranicky.22
Are your kids better off watching 10 hours of Nickelodeon and the Disney Channel every week?
- Ian Lamont.23
Personal Finance For Beginners In 30 Minutes, Volume 1: How to cut expenses, reduce debt, and better align spending & priorities
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.24
The Right Attitude to Rain