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.
The quest for identity from the images we see; god of America: Father TV.
- j.d. tulloch
The Will to Resist: And Psalms of Anger, Love & Humanity
Well, then why should we do anything more than once? Should I just smoke this one cigarette? Maybe we should only have sex once, if it's the same thing. Should we just watch one sunset? Or live just one day? Because it's new every time. Each time is a different experience.
- Jane Margolis
I won't say that all senior citizens who can't master technology should be publicly flogged, but if we made an example of one or two, it might give the others incentive to try harder.
TV is a pornographic cacophony of violence, death obsession, screams, gunfire and drama. You think it's fine because you are damaged.
- Bryant McGill
Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Children playing while in the background the TV blares with screams, gunfire and rape-murder scenes. It seeps in.
- Bryant McGill
Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Grimm: BeeWare (#1.3)" (2011)
Nick Burkhardt: I don't need you for what you know, I need your nose.
Monroe: Oh, I get it. So little Timmy's stuck in a well, you need Lassie to come find him. You really know how to butter a guy up for a favor.
Nick Burkhardt: I've got a '77 Bordeaux in my truck
Monroe: I can maybe catch a scent.
Nick Burkhardt: I don't need you for what you know, I need your nose.
Monroe: Oh, I get it. So little Timmy's stuck in a well, you need Lassie to come find him. You really know how to butter a guy up for a favor.
Nick Burkhardt: I've got a '77 Bordeaux in my truck
Monroe: I can maybe catch a scent.
- Grimm
Change is neither good or bad; it simply is.
[Written by Matthew Weiner]
[Written by Matthew Weiner]
- Don Draper from 'Mad Men'
But reading is different, reading is something you do. With TV, and cinema for that matter, everything’s handed to you on a plate, nothing has to be worked at, they just spoon-feed you. The picture, the sound, the scenery, the atmospheric music in case you haven’t understood what the director’s on about… The creaking door that tells you to be stiff. You have to imagine it all when you’re reading.
- Daniel Pennac
Tengo una teoría: la televisión no pertenece a la cultura sino a la neurología; estimula un enlace de neurocircuitos que te permite ver en estado de zombi, suspendiendo el juicio. Y no sólo eso, también los que están dentro de la pantalla se encuentran alterados; el efecto de las cámaras produce una especie de trance, como el aura luminosa que ven los afectados de jaquecas y que tantas veces se confundió con las apariciones religiosas.
- Juan Villoro
El testigo
Good fantasy fiction: ... explores real human conditions through fantastic metaphors which universalize the characters' individual experiences to speak personally to us all.
- Laura Resnick
Television has greater power over the lives of most Americans than any educational system, government, or church.
- Kent Hughes
The amount of educational programming on television today is simply desensitizing. The only reason left to go to school is to see gun violence.
- Bauvard
Some Inspiration for the Overenthusiastic
Today’s generation didn’t want to watch ancient actors reciting the same tired lines. They wanted to see themselves reflected onscreen –rude, raw, entitled. These kids needed to believe that they themselves were only one daring, controversial act away from being up on that screen themselves.
- Melissa Jo Peltier
Reality Boulevard
Well, fame is a drug and when you take it away from an addict, things can get ugly.
- Melissa Jo Peltier
Reality Boulevard
I was going to dine at the television company’s expense with one of the most beautiful women in show business and some television producer with an inferiority complex. In my experience, there’s always a price.
- V.T. Davy
Black Art
People love a happy ending. So every episode, I will explain once again that I don't like people. And then Mal will shoot someone. Someone we like. And their puppy.
On Friday night, I was reading my new book, but my brain got tired, so I decided to watch some television instead.
- Stephen Chbosky
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
The problem with our society is that our values aren’t in the right place. There’s an awful lot of bleeding and naked bodies on prime-time networks, but not nearly enough cable television on public programming.
- Bauvard
Some Inspiration for the Overenthusiastic
Hey, Geekoid!" yelled Duncan Dougal, "Why do you read so much? Don't you know how to watch TV?
- Bruce Coville
My Teacher Is an Alien
Watching too much TV can triple our hunger for more possessions, while reducing our personal contentment by about 5 percent for every hour a day we watch.
- David Niven
The television image sanctified, conferred identity. The more familiar the face, the more to be trusted.
- P.D. James
Innocent Blood
Wenn ich alleine fernsehe, habe ich meine eigenen Regeln und schalte nur ab, nachdem etwas Gutes passiert ist, oder so, dass die letzten Worte, die man hört, einen nicht verletzen. Man will doch nicht abschalten, wenn zwei Leute mitten im Streit sind oder wenn jemand gerade 'Schwein' sagt oder 'Tod' oder 'Mein Auto ist verreckt'.
- Victor Lodato
Mathilda Savitch
Whoever says TV isn't worthwhile isn't watching the right shows.
- K.A. Applegate
The Journey
You see the whole culture (watching television) . . . Nazis, deodorant salesman, wrestlers . . . beauty contests, the talk show . . . Can you imagine the level of a mind that watches wrestling? Hmm? But the worst are the fundamentalist preachers . . . third-rate con men, telling the poor suckers that watch them that they speak for Jesus . . . and to please send in money. Money, money, money! If Jesus came back, and saw what’s going on in his name, he’d never stop throwing up.
- Woody Allen
Hannah and Her Sisters
The quest for identity from the images we see; god of America: Father TV.
- j.d. tulloch
The Will to Resist: And Psalms of Anger, Love & Humanity
Well, then why should we do anything more than once? Should I just smoke this one cigarette? Maybe we should only have sex once, if it's the same thing. Should we just watch one sunset? Or live just one day? Because it's new every time. Each time is a different experience.
- Jane Margolis
I won't say that all senior citizens who can't master technology should be publicly flogged, but if we made an example of one or two, it might give the others incentive to try harder.
TV is a pornographic cacophony of violence, death obsession, screams, gunfire and drama. You think it's fine because you are damaged.
- Bryant McGill
Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Children playing while in the background the TV blares with screams, gunfire and rape-murder scenes. It seeps in.
- Bryant McGill
Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Grimm: BeeWare (#1.3)" (2011)
Nick Burkhardt: I don't need you for what you know, I need your nose.
Monroe: Oh, I get it. So little Timmy's stuck in a well, you need Lassie to come find him. You really know how to butter a guy up for a favor.
Nick Burkhardt: I've got a '77 Bordeaux in my truck
Monroe: I can maybe catch a scent.
Nick Burkhardt: I don't need you for what you know, I need your nose.
Monroe: Oh, I get it. So little Timmy's stuck in a well, you need Lassie to come find him. You really know how to butter a guy up for a favor.
Nick Burkhardt: I've got a '77 Bordeaux in my truck
Monroe: I can maybe catch a scent.
- Grimm
Change is neither good or bad; it simply is.
[Written by Matthew Weiner]
[Written by Matthew Weiner]
- Don Draper from 'Mad Men'
But reading is different, reading is something you do. With TV, and cinema for that matter, everything’s handed to you on a plate, nothing has to be worked at, they just spoon-feed you. The picture, the sound, the scenery, the atmospheric music in case you haven’t understood what the director’s on about… The creaking door that tells you to be stiff. You have to imagine it all when you’re reading.
- Daniel Pennac
Tengo una teoría: la televisión no pertenece a la cultura sino a la neurología; estimula un enlace de neurocircuitos que te permite ver en estado de zombi, suspendiendo el juicio. Y no sólo eso, también los que están dentro de la pantalla se encuentran alterados; el efecto de las cámaras produce una especie de trance, como el aura luminosa que ven los afectados de jaquecas y que tantas veces se confundió con las apariciones religiosas.
- Juan Villoro
El testigo
Good fantasy fiction: ... explores real human conditions through fantastic metaphors which universalize the characters' individual experiences to speak personally to us all.
- Laura Resnick
Television has greater power over the lives of most Americans than any educational system, government, or church.
- Kent Hughes
The amount of educational programming on television today is simply desensitizing. The only reason left to go to school is to see gun violence.
- Bauvard
Some Inspiration for the Overenthusiastic
Today’s generation didn’t want to watch ancient actors reciting the same tired lines. They wanted to see themselves reflected onscreen –rude, raw, entitled. These kids needed to believe that they themselves were only one daring, controversial act away from being up on that screen themselves.
- Melissa Jo Peltier
Reality Boulevard
Well, fame is a drug and when you take it away from an addict, things can get ugly.
- Melissa Jo Peltier
Reality Boulevard
I was going to dine at the television company’s expense with one of the most beautiful women in show business and some television producer with an inferiority complex. In my experience, there’s always a price.
- V.T. Davy
Black Art
People love a happy ending. So every episode, I will explain once again that I don't like people. And then Mal will shoot someone. Someone we like. And their puppy.
On Friday night, I was reading my new book, but my brain got tired, so I decided to watch some television instead.
- Stephen Chbosky
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
The problem with our society is that our values aren’t in the right place. There’s an awful lot of bleeding and naked bodies on prime-time networks, but not nearly enough cable television on public programming.
- Bauvard
Some Inspiration for the Overenthusiastic
Hey, Geekoid!" yelled Duncan Dougal, "Why do you read so much? Don't you know how to watch TV?
- Bruce Coville
My Teacher Is an Alien
Watching too much TV can triple our hunger for more possessions, while reducing our personal contentment by about 5 percent for every hour a day we watch.
- David Niven
The television image sanctified, conferred identity. The more familiar the face, the more to be trusted.
- P.D. James
Innocent Blood
Wenn ich alleine fernsehe, habe ich meine eigenen Regeln und schalte nur ab, nachdem etwas Gutes passiert ist, oder so, dass die letzten Worte, die man hört, einen nicht verletzen. Man will doch nicht abschalten, wenn zwei Leute mitten im Streit sind oder wenn jemand gerade 'Schwein' sagt oder 'Tod' oder 'Mein Auto ist verreckt'.
- Victor Lodato
Mathilda Savitch
Whoever says TV isn't worthwhile isn't watching the right shows.
- K.A. Applegate
The Journey
You see the whole culture (watching television) . . . Nazis, deodorant salesman, wrestlers . . . beauty contests, the talk show . . . Can you imagine the level of a mind that watches wrestling? Hmm? But the worst are the fundamentalist preachers . . . third-rate con men, telling the poor suckers that watch them that they speak for Jesus . . . and to please send in money. Money, money, money! If Jesus came back, and saw what’s going on in his name, he’d never stop throwing up.
- Woody Allen
Hannah and Her Sisters
The quest for identity from the images we see; god of America: Father TV.
- j.d. tulloch
The Will to Resist: And Psalms of Anger, Love & Humanity
Well, then why should we do anything more than once? Should I just smoke this one cigarette? Maybe we should only have sex once, if it's the same thing. Should we just watch one sunset? Or live just one day? Because it's new every time. Each time is a different experience.
- Jane Margolis
I won't say that all senior citizens who can't master technology should be publicly flogged, but if we made an example of one or two, it might give the others incentive to try harder.
TV is a pornographic cacophony of violence, death obsession, screams, gunfire and drama. You think it's fine because you are damaged.
- Bryant McGill
Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Children playing while in the background the TV blares with screams, gunfire and rape-murder scenes. It seeps in.
- Bryant McGill
Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Grimm: BeeWare (#1.3)" (2011)
Nick Burkhardt: I don't need you for what you know, I need your nose.
Monroe: Oh, I get it. So little Timmy's stuck in a well, you need Lassie to come find him. You really know how to butter a guy up for a favor.
Nick Burkhardt: I've got a '77 Bordeaux in my truck
Monroe: I can maybe catch a scent.
Nick Burkhardt: I don't need you for what you know, I need your nose.
Monroe: Oh, I get it. So little Timmy's stuck in a well, you need Lassie to come find him. You really know how to butter a guy up for a favor.
Nick Burkhardt: I've got a '77 Bordeaux in my truck
Monroe: I can maybe catch a scent.
- Grimm
Change is neither good or bad; it simply is.
[Written by Matthew Weiner]
[Written by Matthew Weiner]
- Don Draper from 'Mad Men'
But reading is different, reading is something you do. With TV, and cinema for that matter, everything’s handed to you on a plate, nothing has to be worked at, they just spoon-feed you. The picture, the sound, the scenery, the atmospheric music in case you haven’t understood what the director’s on about… The creaking door that tells you to be stiff. You have to imagine it all when you’re reading.
- Daniel Pennac
Tengo una teoría: la televisión no pertenece a la cultura sino a la neurología; estimula un enlace de neurocircuitos que te permite ver en estado de zombi, suspendiendo el juicio. Y no sólo eso, también los que están dentro de la pantalla se encuentran alterados; el efecto de las cámaras produce una especie de trance, como el aura luminosa que ven los afectados de jaquecas y que tantas veces se confundió con las apariciones religiosas.
- Juan Villoro
El testigo
Good fantasy fiction: ... explores real human conditions through fantastic metaphors which universalize the characters' individual experiences to speak personally to us all.
- Laura Resnick
Television has greater power over the lives of most Americans than any educational system, government, or church.
- Kent Hughes
The amount of educational programming on television today is simply desensitizing. The only reason left to go to school is to see gun violence.
- Bauvard
Some Inspiration for the Overenthusiastic
Today’s generation didn’t want to watch ancient actors reciting the same tired lines. They wanted to see themselves reflected onscreen –rude, raw, entitled. These kids needed to believe that they themselves were only one daring, controversial act away from being up on that screen themselves.
- Melissa Jo Peltier
Reality Boulevard
Well, fame is a drug and when you take it away from an addict, things can get ugly.
- Melissa Jo Peltier
Reality Boulevard
I was going to dine at the television company’s expense with one of the most beautiful women in show business and some television producer with an inferiority complex. In my experience, there’s always a price.
- V.T. Davy
Black Art
People love a happy ending. So every episode, I will explain once again that I don't like people. And then Mal will shoot someone. Someone we like. And their puppy.
On Friday night, I was reading my new book, but my brain got tired, so I decided to watch some television instead.
- Stephen Chbosky
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
The problem with our society is that our values aren’t in the right place. There’s an awful lot of bleeding and naked bodies on prime-time networks, but not nearly enough cable television on public programming.
- Bauvard
Some Inspiration for the Overenthusiastic
Hey, Geekoid!" yelled Duncan Dougal, "Why do you read so much? Don't you know how to watch TV?
- Bruce Coville
My Teacher Is an Alien
Watching too much TV can triple our hunger for more possessions, while reducing our personal contentment by about 5 percent for every hour a day we watch.
- David Niven
The television image sanctified, conferred identity. The more familiar the face, the more to be trusted.
- P.D. James
Innocent Blood
Wenn ich alleine fernsehe, habe ich meine eigenen Regeln und schalte nur ab, nachdem etwas Gutes passiert ist, oder so, dass die letzten Worte, die man hört, einen nicht verletzen. Man will doch nicht abschalten, wenn zwei Leute mitten im Streit sind oder wenn jemand gerade 'Schwein' sagt oder 'Tod' oder 'Mein Auto ist verreckt'.
- Victor Lodato
Mathilda Savitch
Whoever says TV isn't worthwhile isn't watching the right shows.
- K.A. Applegate
The Journey
You see the whole culture (watching television) . . . Nazis, deodorant salesman, wrestlers . . . beauty contests, the talk show . . . Can you imagine the level of a mind that watches wrestling? Hmm? But the worst are the fundamentalist preachers . . . third-rate con men, telling the poor suckers that watch them that they speak for Jesus . . . and to please send in money. Money, money, money! If Jesus came back, and saw what’s going on in his name, he’d never stop throwing up.
- Woody Allen
Hannah and Her Sisters