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.
Keisha Blake, whose celebrated will and focus did not leave her much room for angst, watched her friend ascend to the top deck in her new panda-eyed makeup and had a mauvais quart d'heure, wondering whether she herself had any personality at all or was in truth only the accumulation and reflection of all the things she had read in books and seen on television.
- Zadie Smith.1
Unpaid internships are worse than slavery," Gabby said. I looked at her, unsure of what she meant. "They make us work ridiculous hours, for free, and they make us do things an employee would do. It's a scam, and worse, they make you feel like they're doing YOU a favor. It's such mindfuckery.
- Teresa Lo.2
Realities: a Collection of Short Stories
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
- Groucho Marx.3
If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
- Erma Bombeck.4
Reading requires actual concentration. If you skipped a paragraph, or even an important sentence, you could lose the entire story. With most TV shows, though, you didn't have to concentrate at all. You could space out for a good ten minutes, then come back and still figure out what was going on.
- Daniel Ehrenhaft.5
The Last Dog on Earth
The most exciting acting tends to happen in roles you never thought you could play.
- John Lithgow.6
You cannot blame porn. When I was young, I used to masturbate to Gilligan's Island.
- Ron Jeremy.7
Sometimes I look around my living room, and the most real thing in the room is the television. It’s bright and vivid, and the rest of my life looks drab. So I turn the damn thing off. That does it every time. Get my life back.
- Michael Crichton.8
Airframe
I spent my time drinking and staring at a television in the airport bar. More death and destruction. Crime. Pollution. All the news stories were telling me to be frightened. All the commercials were telling me to buy things I didn´t need. The message was that people could only be passive victims or consumers.
- John Twelve Hawks.9
The Traveler
Difference between TV and the internet was how far you sat from the screen. TV was an 8 foot activity, and you were a consumer. The internet was a 16 inch activity, and you participated. I think the sitting down thing is similar. You're not going to buy an armoir while standing on the subway.
- Seth Godin.10
My wife says books aren’t ‘real.’ ”
“Thank God for that. You can shut them, say, ‘Hold on a moment.’ You play
God to it. But who has ever torn himself from the claw that encloses you when
you drop a seed in a TV parlor? It grows you any shape it wishes! It is an
environment as real as the world. It becomes and is the truth. Books can be beaten
down with reason.
“Thank God for that. You can shut them, say, ‘Hold on a moment.’ You play
God to it. But who has ever torn himself from the claw that encloses you when
you drop a seed in a TV parlor? It grows you any shape it wishes! It is an
environment as real as the world. It becomes and is the truth. Books can be beaten
down with reason.
- Ray Bradbury .11
Fahrenheit 451
By the time Daisy Jones & The Six performed “Turn It Off” on Saturday Night Live, they were performing a song almost everyone in the country knew. It was the Record of the Year.
- Taylor Jenkins Reid.12
Daisy Jones & The Six
Her voice switches from patient to peeved faster than a viewer can change channels.
- Christina Estes.13
Off the Air
Breaking: There is a difference between the news and the truth.
- Richie Norton.14
I get that now which is why I’ve finally embraced my own. You and I, we will both be great men because of each other. We have a destiny together Clark, only on different sides.
- Lex Luthor, Smallville.15
Squid Game, is a riveting TV program that deserves accolades of praise . It's a TV program that invites you, yourself in to play the games along with it.
- Anthony T. Hincks.16
Karma’s a bitch.
- Veronica Lodge.17
The indoor society is the isolated society.
- Steven Magee.18
Better to be prolific than programmed. Kick the tube and nourish the mood (as in mind state).
- T.F. Hodge.19
Most people are subconsciously waiting for some people to be rich, or to appear on TV, before they start considering the idea of considering their advice or ideas.
- Mokokoma Mokhonoana.20
To say that film and television are the same thing is to say poetry and the novel are the same simply because they are words written on a page.
- J. Andrew Schrecker.21
I have the most fantastic, stupendous, magnificent idea. Why it’s better than television," he said, standing there in red, tartan pyjamas, his beard in a sleepy tangle.
Dunn's Magnificent Idea
Dunn's Magnificent Idea
- E L Parfitt.22
Encourage your children to read more and watch television less.
- Gordon B. Hinckley.23
Minimalism is a way of living at the maximum of your potential.
- Anastasiya Kotelnikova.24
Keisha Blake, whose celebrated will and focus did not leave her much room for angst, watched her friend ascend to the top deck in her new panda-eyed makeup and had a mauvais quart d'heure, wondering whether she herself had any personality at all or was in truth only the accumulation and reflection of all the things she had read in books and seen on television.
- Zadie Smith.1
Unpaid internships are worse than slavery," Gabby said. I looked at her, unsure of what she meant. "They make us work ridiculous hours, for free, and they make us do things an employee would do. It's a scam, and worse, they make you feel like they're doing YOU a favor. It's such mindfuckery.
- Teresa Lo.2
Realities: a Collection of Short Stories
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
- Groucho Marx.3
If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
- Erma Bombeck.4
Reading requires actual concentration. If you skipped a paragraph, or even an important sentence, you could lose the entire story. With most TV shows, though, you didn't have to concentrate at all. You could space out for a good ten minutes, then come back and still figure out what was going on.
- Daniel Ehrenhaft.5
The Last Dog on Earth
The most exciting acting tends to happen in roles you never thought you could play.
- John Lithgow.6
You cannot blame porn. When I was young, I used to masturbate to Gilligan's Island.
- Ron Jeremy.7
Sometimes I look around my living room, and the most real thing in the room is the television. It’s bright and vivid, and the rest of my life looks drab. So I turn the damn thing off. That does it every time. Get my life back.
- Michael Crichton.8
Airframe
I spent my time drinking and staring at a television in the airport bar. More death and destruction. Crime. Pollution. All the news stories were telling me to be frightened. All the commercials were telling me to buy things I didn´t need. The message was that people could only be passive victims or consumers.
- John Twelve Hawks.9
The Traveler
Difference between TV and the internet was how far you sat from the screen. TV was an 8 foot activity, and you were a consumer. The internet was a 16 inch activity, and you participated. I think the sitting down thing is similar. You're not going to buy an armoir while standing on the subway.
- Seth Godin.10
My wife says books aren’t ‘real.’ ”
“Thank God for that. You can shut them, say, ‘Hold on a moment.’ You play
God to it. But who has ever torn himself from the claw that encloses you when
you drop a seed in a TV parlor? It grows you any shape it wishes! It is an
environment as real as the world. It becomes and is the truth. Books can be beaten
down with reason.
“Thank God for that. You can shut them, say, ‘Hold on a moment.’ You play
God to it. But who has ever torn himself from the claw that encloses you when
you drop a seed in a TV parlor? It grows you any shape it wishes! It is an
environment as real as the world. It becomes and is the truth. Books can be beaten
down with reason.
- Ray Bradbury .11
Fahrenheit 451
By the time Daisy Jones & The Six performed “Turn It Off” on Saturday Night Live, they were performing a song almost everyone in the country knew. It was the Record of the Year.
- Taylor Jenkins Reid.12
Daisy Jones & The Six
Her voice switches from patient to peeved faster than a viewer can change channels.
- Christina Estes.13
Off the Air
Breaking: There is a difference between the news and the truth.
- Richie Norton.14
I get that now which is why I’ve finally embraced my own. You and I, we will both be great men because of each other. We have a destiny together Clark, only on different sides.
- Lex Luthor, Smallville.15
Squid Game, is a riveting TV program that deserves accolades of praise . It's a TV program that invites you, yourself in to play the games along with it.
- Anthony T. Hincks.16
Karma’s a bitch.
- Veronica Lodge.17
The indoor society is the isolated society.
- Steven Magee.18
Better to be prolific than programmed. Kick the tube and nourish the mood (as in mind state).
- T.F. Hodge.19
Most people are subconsciously waiting for some people to be rich, or to appear on TV, before they start considering the idea of considering their advice or ideas.
- Mokokoma Mokhonoana.20
To say that film and television are the same thing is to say poetry and the novel are the same simply because they are words written on a page.
- J. Andrew Schrecker.21
I have the most fantastic, stupendous, magnificent idea. Why it’s better than television," he said, standing there in red, tartan pyjamas, his beard in a sleepy tangle.
Dunn's Magnificent Idea
Dunn's Magnificent Idea
- E L Parfitt.22
Encourage your children to read more and watch television less.
- Gordon B. Hinckley.23
Minimalism is a way of living at the maximum of your potential.
- Anastasiya Kotelnikova.24
Keisha Blake, whose celebrated will and focus did not leave her much room for angst, watched her friend ascend to the top deck in her new panda-eyed makeup and had a mauvais quart d'heure, wondering whether she herself had any personality at all or was in truth only the accumulation and reflection of all the things she had read in books and seen on television.
- Zadie Smith.1
Unpaid internships are worse than slavery," Gabby said. I looked at her, unsure of what she meant. "They make us work ridiculous hours, for free, and they make us do things an employee would do. It's a scam, and worse, they make you feel like they're doing YOU a favor. It's such mindfuckery.
- Teresa Lo.2
Realities: a Collection of Short Stories
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
- Groucho Marx.3
If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
- Erma Bombeck.4
Reading requires actual concentration. If you skipped a paragraph, or even an important sentence, you could lose the entire story. With most TV shows, though, you didn't have to concentrate at all. You could space out for a good ten minutes, then come back and still figure out what was going on.
- Daniel Ehrenhaft.5
The Last Dog on Earth
The most exciting acting tends to happen in roles you never thought you could play.
- John Lithgow.6
You cannot blame porn. When I was young, I used to masturbate to Gilligan's Island.
- Ron Jeremy.7
Sometimes I look around my living room, and the most real thing in the room is the television. It’s bright and vivid, and the rest of my life looks drab. So I turn the damn thing off. That does it every time. Get my life back.
- Michael Crichton.8
Airframe
I spent my time drinking and staring at a television in the airport bar. More death and destruction. Crime. Pollution. All the news stories were telling me to be frightened. All the commercials were telling me to buy things I didn´t need. The message was that people could only be passive victims or consumers.
- John Twelve Hawks.9
The Traveler
Difference between TV and the internet was how far you sat from the screen. TV was an 8 foot activity, and you were a consumer. The internet was a 16 inch activity, and you participated. I think the sitting down thing is similar. You're not going to buy an armoir while standing on the subway.
- Seth Godin.10
My wife says books aren’t ‘real.’ ”
“Thank God for that. You can shut them, say, ‘Hold on a moment.’ You play
God to it. But who has ever torn himself from the claw that encloses you when
you drop a seed in a TV parlor? It grows you any shape it wishes! It is an
environment as real as the world. It becomes and is the truth. Books can be beaten
down with reason.
“Thank God for that. You can shut them, say, ‘Hold on a moment.’ You play
God to it. But who has ever torn himself from the claw that encloses you when
you drop a seed in a TV parlor? It grows you any shape it wishes! It is an
environment as real as the world. It becomes and is the truth. Books can be beaten
down with reason.
- Ray Bradbury .11
Fahrenheit 451
By the time Daisy Jones & The Six performed “Turn It Off” on Saturday Night Live, they were performing a song almost everyone in the country knew. It was the Record of the Year.
- Taylor Jenkins Reid.12
Daisy Jones & The Six
Her voice switches from patient to peeved faster than a viewer can change channels.
- Christina Estes.13
Off the Air
Breaking: There is a difference between the news and the truth.
- Richie Norton.14
I get that now which is why I’ve finally embraced my own. You and I, we will both be great men because of each other. We have a destiny together Clark, only on different sides.
- Lex Luthor, Smallville.15
Squid Game, is a riveting TV program that deserves accolades of praise . It's a TV program that invites you, yourself in to play the games along with it.
- Anthony T. Hincks.16
Karma’s a bitch.
- Veronica Lodge.17
The indoor society is the isolated society.
- Steven Magee.18
Better to be prolific than programmed. Kick the tube and nourish the mood (as in mind state).
- T.F. Hodge.19
Most people are subconsciously waiting for some people to be rich, or to appear on TV, before they start considering the idea of considering their advice or ideas.
- Mokokoma Mokhonoana.20
To say that film and television are the same thing is to say poetry and the novel are the same simply because they are words written on a page.
- J. Andrew Schrecker.21
I have the most fantastic, stupendous, magnificent idea. Why it’s better than television," he said, standing there in red, tartan pyjamas, his beard in a sleepy tangle.
Dunn's Magnificent Idea
Dunn's Magnificent Idea
- E L Parfitt.22
Encourage your children to read more and watch television less.
- Gordon B. Hinckley.23
Minimalism is a way of living at the maximum of your potential.
- Anastasiya Kotelnikova.24