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.
Raising our kids in this way-without television, video games, or even a lot of extra friends-I believe they have gained independence and the ability to entertain themselves and use their own imaginations.
- Chris Nobel
Les aspirations accumulées de tout un pays, immergé depuis des décennies dans la sénescente torpeur communiste, convergeaient ici. Et au centre il n’y avait pas la culture, comme le croyaient les intellectuels convaincus d’hériter du sceptre et qui n’avaient rien hérité du tout. Au centre, il y avait la télévision.
- Giuliano da Empoli
Le Mage du Kremlin
I didn’t forget our anniversary, either.” He guided them, an arm around each, into the hall. They heard voices, eerie voices like a radio, and then Father threw open the living-room door and inside, all lighted up like a green cat’s eye, was a seventeen-inch television screen – and on the screen were dogs.
- Regina J. Woody
Almena's Dogs
Nearby, JJ is sucking up to someone she hopes can lead her out of the Sonoran Desert and into the Hollywood Hills.
- Christina Estes
Off the Air
I worry that my own business... helps to make this an anxious age of agitated amnesiacs... We Americans seem to know everything about the last twenty-four hours but very little about the last sixty years.
- Bill Moyers
Those who regularly use a TV are the most likely to occasionally use a CV.
Hence the importance of determining what’s real and what’s fake on TV.
- Rae Knightly
Ben Archer and the Star Rider
I call modern large screen televisions “Insomnia TV’s” because they are known to disrupt sleep.
Watching TV puts your own hell into a different perspective, if that’s what you want. Today I do.
- Liz Jensen
The Rapture
It's television that makes things seem important, whether they are or not.
- Marilynne Robinson
Home
If you keep pestering the politician, you look like a pest, and America does not tune in to watch pests. It's a chilling thought, that politicians have learned to manipulate the television medium better than the television professionals themselves. When old Cronkite first realized this was happening he imagined the kinds of people who would become politicians in the future. And he shuddered with fear.
- Nathan Hill
The Nix
SIMPSONS BLUFFER'S RULE #2
The competent bluffer should always refer to the performers who play The Simpsons as 'the voice talent' never 'actors'.
For extra effect, drop their first names... This implies some tacit familiarity and your bluffee will simply melt before your eyes like the witch in The Wizard of Oz
The competent bluffer should always refer to the performers who play The Simpsons as 'the voice talent' never 'actors'.
For extra effect, drop their first names... This implies some tacit familiarity and your bluffee will simply melt before your eyes like the witch in The Wizard of Oz
- Paul Couch
The Bluffer's Guide to The Simpsons
We welcome into our homes the machines that vacuum the thoughts out of our heads and pump in someone else's. John Berger in Ways of Seeing said that television advertisers succeeded by persuading viewers to envy themselves as they would be if they bought the product. These programmes do something similar, by persuading the viewer to envy himself as he would be if his life were that little bit more exciting and melodramatic than it actually is. They can make things seem normal that are not.
- Peter Hitchens
The Abolition of Britain: From Winston Churchill to Princess Diana
No matter what it is, if you don’t move your eyes and set the pace yourself, your intellect is sentenced to death. The mind, you see, is like a muscle. For it to remain agile and strong, it must work. Television rules that out.
- Mark Helprin
Winter's Tale
Bob [Crane] was driven to success, and he sought perfection in his work, right from the start.
- Carol M. Ford
Bob Crane The Definitive Biography
Never presume to know a person based on the one dimensional window of the internet. A soul can’t be defined by critics, enemies or broken ties with family or friends. Neither can it be explained by posts or blogs that lack facial expressions, tone or insight into the person’s personality and intent. Until people “get that”, we will forever be a society that thinks Beautiful Mind was a spy movie and every stranger is really a friend on Facebook.
Holiness begins in our minds and works out to our actions. This being true, what we allow to enter our minds is critically important.
The television programs we watch, the movies we may attend, the books and magazines we read, the music we listen to, and the conversations we have all affect our minds.
The television programs we watch, the movies we may attend, the books and magazines we read, the music we listen to, and the conversations we have all affect our minds.
- Jerry Bridges
The Pursuit of Holiness
“On my tombstone, I want written, ‘He never did 'Love Boat!”
Advertisement shouldn’t look like information, it should look like a promise.
Generally speaking, if you think something you want to do is wrong, it is.
- Adam Horowitz and Edward Kitsis
Interviews were invented to make journalism less passive. Instead of waiting for something to happen, journalists ask someone what should or could happen.
- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
N for Nigger: Aphorisms for Grown Children and Childish Grown-ups
[...] I'd wake up in the middle of the night to the Star-Spangled Banner and some old film of a flag blowing in the wind, telling you the day was over and it was long past time to go to bed. That was back when days used to end, before CNN and infomercials, before all our days bled right into each other.
- Michael Montoure
Slices
Key element of television programming, the characters must watch the programming
themselves.
themselves.
- Moonn Tzu
Change is neither good or bad; it simply is.
- Matthew Weiner written for Don Draper on 'Mad Men'
Raising our kids in this way-without television, video games, or even a lot of extra friends-I believe they have gained independence and the ability to entertain themselves and use their own imaginations.
- Chris Nobel
Les aspirations accumulées de tout un pays, immergé depuis des décennies dans la sénescente torpeur communiste, convergeaient ici. Et au centre il n’y avait pas la culture, comme le croyaient les intellectuels convaincus d’hériter du sceptre et qui n’avaient rien hérité du tout. Au centre, il y avait la télévision.
- Giuliano da Empoli
Le Mage du Kremlin
I didn’t forget our anniversary, either.” He guided them, an arm around each, into the hall. They heard voices, eerie voices like a radio, and then Father threw open the living-room door and inside, all lighted up like a green cat’s eye, was a seventeen-inch television screen – and on the screen were dogs.
- Regina J. Woody
Almena's Dogs
Nearby, JJ is sucking up to someone she hopes can lead her out of the Sonoran Desert and into the Hollywood Hills.
- Christina Estes
Off the Air
I worry that my own business... helps to make this an anxious age of agitated amnesiacs... We Americans seem to know everything about the last twenty-four hours but very little about the last sixty years.
- Bill Moyers
Those who regularly use a TV are the most likely to occasionally use a CV.
Hence the importance of determining what’s real and what’s fake on TV.
- Rae Knightly
Ben Archer and the Star Rider
I call modern large screen televisions “Insomnia TV’s” because they are known to disrupt sleep.
Watching TV puts your own hell into a different perspective, if that’s what you want. Today I do.
- Liz Jensen
The Rapture
It's television that makes things seem important, whether they are or not.
- Marilynne Robinson
Home
If you keep pestering the politician, you look like a pest, and America does not tune in to watch pests. It's a chilling thought, that politicians have learned to manipulate the television medium better than the television professionals themselves. When old Cronkite first realized this was happening he imagined the kinds of people who would become politicians in the future. And he shuddered with fear.
- Nathan Hill
The Nix
SIMPSONS BLUFFER'S RULE #2
The competent bluffer should always refer to the performers who play The Simpsons as 'the voice talent' never 'actors'.
For extra effect, drop their first names... This implies some tacit familiarity and your bluffee will simply melt before your eyes like the witch in The Wizard of Oz
The competent bluffer should always refer to the performers who play The Simpsons as 'the voice talent' never 'actors'.
For extra effect, drop their first names... This implies some tacit familiarity and your bluffee will simply melt before your eyes like the witch in The Wizard of Oz
- Paul Couch
The Bluffer's Guide to The Simpsons
We welcome into our homes the machines that vacuum the thoughts out of our heads and pump in someone else's. John Berger in Ways of Seeing said that television advertisers succeeded by persuading viewers to envy themselves as they would be if they bought the product. These programmes do something similar, by persuading the viewer to envy himself as he would be if his life were that little bit more exciting and melodramatic than it actually is. They can make things seem normal that are not.
- Peter Hitchens
The Abolition of Britain: From Winston Churchill to Princess Diana
No matter what it is, if you don’t move your eyes and set the pace yourself, your intellect is sentenced to death. The mind, you see, is like a muscle. For it to remain agile and strong, it must work. Television rules that out.
- Mark Helprin
Winter's Tale
Bob [Crane] was driven to success, and he sought perfection in his work, right from the start.
- Carol M. Ford
Bob Crane The Definitive Biography
Never presume to know a person based on the one dimensional window of the internet. A soul can’t be defined by critics, enemies or broken ties with family or friends. Neither can it be explained by posts or blogs that lack facial expressions, tone or insight into the person’s personality and intent. Until people “get that”, we will forever be a society that thinks Beautiful Mind was a spy movie and every stranger is really a friend on Facebook.
Holiness begins in our minds and works out to our actions. This being true, what we allow to enter our minds is critically important.
The television programs we watch, the movies we may attend, the books and magazines we read, the music we listen to, and the conversations we have all affect our minds.
The television programs we watch, the movies we may attend, the books and magazines we read, the music we listen to, and the conversations we have all affect our minds.
- Jerry Bridges
The Pursuit of Holiness
“On my tombstone, I want written, ‘He never did 'Love Boat!”
Advertisement shouldn’t look like information, it should look like a promise.
Generally speaking, if you think something you want to do is wrong, it is.
- Adam Horowitz and Edward Kitsis
Interviews were invented to make journalism less passive. Instead of waiting for something to happen, journalists ask someone what should or could happen.
- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
N for Nigger: Aphorisms for Grown Children and Childish Grown-ups
[...] I'd wake up in the middle of the night to the Star-Spangled Banner and some old film of a flag blowing in the wind, telling you the day was over and it was long past time to go to bed. That was back when days used to end, before CNN and infomercials, before all our days bled right into each other.
- Michael Montoure
Slices
Key element of television programming, the characters must watch the programming
themselves.
themselves.
- Moonn Tzu
Change is neither good or bad; it simply is.
- Matthew Weiner written for Don Draper on 'Mad Men'
Raising our kids in this way-without television, video games, or even a lot of extra friends-I believe they have gained independence and the ability to entertain themselves and use their own imaginations.
- Chris Nobel
Les aspirations accumulées de tout un pays, immergé depuis des décennies dans la sénescente torpeur communiste, convergeaient ici. Et au centre il n’y avait pas la culture, comme le croyaient les intellectuels convaincus d’hériter du sceptre et qui n’avaient rien hérité du tout. Au centre, il y avait la télévision.
- Giuliano da Empoli
Le Mage du Kremlin
I didn’t forget our anniversary, either.” He guided them, an arm around each, into the hall. They heard voices, eerie voices like a radio, and then Father threw open the living-room door and inside, all lighted up like a green cat’s eye, was a seventeen-inch television screen – and on the screen were dogs.
- Regina J. Woody
Almena's Dogs
Nearby, JJ is sucking up to someone she hopes can lead her out of the Sonoran Desert and into the Hollywood Hills.
- Christina Estes
Off the Air
I worry that my own business... helps to make this an anxious age of agitated amnesiacs... We Americans seem to know everything about the last twenty-four hours but very little about the last sixty years.
- Bill Moyers
Those who regularly use a TV are the most likely to occasionally use a CV.
Hence the importance of determining what’s real and what’s fake on TV.
- Rae Knightly
Ben Archer and the Star Rider
I call modern large screen televisions “Insomnia TV’s” because they are known to disrupt sleep.
Watching TV puts your own hell into a different perspective, if that’s what you want. Today I do.
- Liz Jensen
The Rapture
It's television that makes things seem important, whether they are or not.
- Marilynne Robinson
Home
If you keep pestering the politician, you look like a pest, and America does not tune in to watch pests. It's a chilling thought, that politicians have learned to manipulate the television medium better than the television professionals themselves. When old Cronkite first realized this was happening he imagined the kinds of people who would become politicians in the future. And he shuddered with fear.
- Nathan Hill
The Nix
SIMPSONS BLUFFER'S RULE #2
The competent bluffer should always refer to the performers who play The Simpsons as 'the voice talent' never 'actors'.
For extra effect, drop their first names... This implies some tacit familiarity and your bluffee will simply melt before your eyes like the witch in The Wizard of Oz
The competent bluffer should always refer to the performers who play The Simpsons as 'the voice talent' never 'actors'.
For extra effect, drop their first names... This implies some tacit familiarity and your bluffee will simply melt before your eyes like the witch in The Wizard of Oz
- Paul Couch
The Bluffer's Guide to The Simpsons
We welcome into our homes the machines that vacuum the thoughts out of our heads and pump in someone else's. John Berger in Ways of Seeing said that television advertisers succeeded by persuading viewers to envy themselves as they would be if they bought the product. These programmes do something similar, by persuading the viewer to envy himself as he would be if his life were that little bit more exciting and melodramatic than it actually is. They can make things seem normal that are not.
- Peter Hitchens
The Abolition of Britain: From Winston Churchill to Princess Diana
No matter what it is, if you don’t move your eyes and set the pace yourself, your intellect is sentenced to death. The mind, you see, is like a muscle. For it to remain agile and strong, it must work. Television rules that out.
- Mark Helprin
Winter's Tale
Bob [Crane] was driven to success, and he sought perfection in his work, right from the start.
- Carol M. Ford
Bob Crane The Definitive Biography
Never presume to know a person based on the one dimensional window of the internet. A soul can’t be defined by critics, enemies or broken ties with family or friends. Neither can it be explained by posts or blogs that lack facial expressions, tone or insight into the person’s personality and intent. Until people “get that”, we will forever be a society that thinks Beautiful Mind was a spy movie and every stranger is really a friend on Facebook.
Holiness begins in our minds and works out to our actions. This being true, what we allow to enter our minds is critically important.
The television programs we watch, the movies we may attend, the books and magazines we read, the music we listen to, and the conversations we have all affect our minds.
The television programs we watch, the movies we may attend, the books and magazines we read, the music we listen to, and the conversations we have all affect our minds.
- Jerry Bridges
The Pursuit of Holiness
“On my tombstone, I want written, ‘He never did 'Love Boat!”
Advertisement shouldn’t look like information, it should look like a promise.
Generally speaking, if you think something you want to do is wrong, it is.
- Adam Horowitz and Edward Kitsis
Interviews were invented to make journalism less passive. Instead of waiting for something to happen, journalists ask someone what should or could happen.
- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
N for Nigger: Aphorisms for Grown Children and Childish Grown-ups
[...] I'd wake up in the middle of the night to the Star-Spangled Banner and some old film of a flag blowing in the wind, telling you the day was over and it was long past time to go to bed. That was back when days used to end, before CNN and infomercials, before all our days bled right into each other.
- Michael Montoure
Slices
Key element of television programming, the characters must watch the programming
themselves.
themselves.
- Moonn Tzu
Change is neither good or bad; it simply is.
- Matthew Weiner written for Don Draper on 'Mad Men'