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.
You know it's Thanksgiving Day in America,
When families are sitting in their living room watching Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade on television.
When families are sitting in their living room watching Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade on television.
- Charmaine J. Forde
The television set groaned and wept blood when they turned it on.
- Michael Swanwick
The Iron Dragon's Daughter
An aversion to boredom and a low tolerance for delayed gratification are at the root of binge culture. ... we have become a 'bingey society' because 'our souls aren't being attended to, in the world that we live in -- and so, we stuff them. With work, with food, with leisure. We're greedy. It comes from being given too much and at the same time too little.' Or as Oscar Wilde put it, 'Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
- Pandora Sykes
How Do We Know We're Doing It Right: & Other Essays on Modern Life
In other words, so far as many reputable studies are concerned, television viewing does not significantly increase learning, is inferior to and less likely than print to cultivate higher-order, inferential thinking.
- Neil Postman
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
For in the end, he was trying to tell us that what afflicted the people in Brave New World was not that they were laughing instead of thinking, but that they did not know what they were laughing about and why they had stopped thinking.
- Neil Postman
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
As the 5G wireless radiation system was slowly being installed in Tucson, Arizona, USA, I started to lose over the air television reception. The more transmitters that were installed, the worse the reception became.
And the emu, not standing up to the cassowary, accompanied the cassowary on their continued journey of the safari, never to return because a zebra herd trapped them back into pre-color television times indefinitely.
- J.S. Mason
The Ghost Therapist...And Other Grand Delights
The brevity of our lives makes watching TV seem like a symptom of insanity.
You are more likely to find three TVs inside a randomly selected house than you are to find a single book that is or was not read to pass an exam, to please God, or to be a better cook.
The instrument (the telescreen, it was called) could be dimmed, but there was no way of shutting it off completely.
He was postliterate —total television.
- Michael Wolff
Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House
I bid you peace - said at the end of every TV episode of The Frugal Gourmet
- Jeff Smith
She put others before herself and yet you hate her. What did she do to you?
- Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz
What is strong enough to drown out your own conscience?
- Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz
It was getting harder, however. American magazines still looked shiny and lively, but by the early 1960s, writers like Flora were sensing trouble. With television's exploding popularity, more and more people were staring at screens instead of turning pages. Big corporations like car manufacturers were pulling their advertising dollars out of print and spending them on the airwaves. Magazines were bleeding ad pages and readers, and editors scrambled to balance budgets by retooling audiences.
- Debbie Nathan
Sybil Exposed: The Extraordinary Story Behind the Famous Multiple Personality Case
Why is this interesting? Why are we watching?
- Kate Tempest
Brand New Ancients: A Poem
It is proper Netiquette to watch television online via native app when using mobile.
- David Chiles
TV in America created the most coherent reality distortion field that I’ve ever seen. Therein is the problem: People who vote watch TV, and they are hallucinating like a sonofabitch. Basically, what we have in this country is government by hallucinating mob.
- John Perry Barlow
Is my coitus whimsically inventive?
Those skirts are crunchy toast! Santana Lopez bent over in hers the other day, and I swear I could see her ovaries.
- Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk, and Ian Brennan
That is the studliest thing I have ever seen.
- Darren Star
For good health, watch what you eat. For a good head, watch what you watch.
Mtu yoyote anayedanganya ni Shetani, kwani Shetani ni baba wa uongo. Tusikubali kudanganywa ovyo, hasa watoto wetu, katika kipindi hiki cha utandawazi na teknolojia.
In the end, they will say this of the human race: they had the freedom to go anywhere, but sat in front of the television. They were each responsible for saving the world, but they turned over the channel.
- Craig Stone
How to Hide from Humans
You know it's Thanksgiving Day in America,
When families are sitting in their living room watching Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade on television.
When families are sitting in their living room watching Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade on television.
- Charmaine J. Forde
The television set groaned and wept blood when they turned it on.
- Michael Swanwick
The Iron Dragon's Daughter
An aversion to boredom and a low tolerance for delayed gratification are at the root of binge culture. ... we have become a 'bingey society' because 'our souls aren't being attended to, in the world that we live in -- and so, we stuff them. With work, with food, with leisure. We're greedy. It comes from being given too much and at the same time too little.' Or as Oscar Wilde put it, 'Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
- Pandora Sykes
How Do We Know We're Doing It Right: & Other Essays on Modern Life
In other words, so far as many reputable studies are concerned, television viewing does not significantly increase learning, is inferior to and less likely than print to cultivate higher-order, inferential thinking.
- Neil Postman
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
For in the end, he was trying to tell us that what afflicted the people in Brave New World was not that they were laughing instead of thinking, but that they did not know what they were laughing about and why they had stopped thinking.
- Neil Postman
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
As the 5G wireless radiation system was slowly being installed in Tucson, Arizona, USA, I started to lose over the air television reception. The more transmitters that were installed, the worse the reception became.
And the emu, not standing up to the cassowary, accompanied the cassowary on their continued journey of the safari, never to return because a zebra herd trapped them back into pre-color television times indefinitely.
- J.S. Mason
The Ghost Therapist...And Other Grand Delights
The brevity of our lives makes watching TV seem like a symptom of insanity.
You are more likely to find three TVs inside a randomly selected house than you are to find a single book that is or was not read to pass an exam, to please God, or to be a better cook.
The instrument (the telescreen, it was called) could be dimmed, but there was no way of shutting it off completely.
He was postliterate —total television.
- Michael Wolff
Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House
I bid you peace - said at the end of every TV episode of The Frugal Gourmet
- Jeff Smith
She put others before herself and yet you hate her. What did she do to you?
- Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz
What is strong enough to drown out your own conscience?
- Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz
It was getting harder, however. American magazines still looked shiny and lively, but by the early 1960s, writers like Flora were sensing trouble. With television's exploding popularity, more and more people were staring at screens instead of turning pages. Big corporations like car manufacturers were pulling their advertising dollars out of print and spending them on the airwaves. Magazines were bleeding ad pages and readers, and editors scrambled to balance budgets by retooling audiences.
- Debbie Nathan
Sybil Exposed: The Extraordinary Story Behind the Famous Multiple Personality Case
Why is this interesting? Why are we watching?
- Kate Tempest
Brand New Ancients: A Poem
It is proper Netiquette to watch television online via native app when using mobile.
- David Chiles
TV in America created the most coherent reality distortion field that I’ve ever seen. Therein is the problem: People who vote watch TV, and they are hallucinating like a sonofabitch. Basically, what we have in this country is government by hallucinating mob.
- John Perry Barlow
Is my coitus whimsically inventive?
Those skirts are crunchy toast! Santana Lopez bent over in hers the other day, and I swear I could see her ovaries.
- Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk, and Ian Brennan
That is the studliest thing I have ever seen.
- Darren Star
For good health, watch what you eat. For a good head, watch what you watch.
Mtu yoyote anayedanganya ni Shetani, kwani Shetani ni baba wa uongo. Tusikubali kudanganywa ovyo, hasa watoto wetu, katika kipindi hiki cha utandawazi na teknolojia.
In the end, they will say this of the human race: they had the freedom to go anywhere, but sat in front of the television. They were each responsible for saving the world, but they turned over the channel.
- Craig Stone
How to Hide from Humans
You know it's Thanksgiving Day in America,
When families are sitting in their living room watching Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade on television.
When families are sitting in their living room watching Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade on television.
- Charmaine J. Forde
The television set groaned and wept blood when they turned it on.
- Michael Swanwick
The Iron Dragon's Daughter
An aversion to boredom and a low tolerance for delayed gratification are at the root of binge culture. ... we have become a 'bingey society' because 'our souls aren't being attended to, in the world that we live in -- and so, we stuff them. With work, with food, with leisure. We're greedy. It comes from being given too much and at the same time too little.' Or as Oscar Wilde put it, 'Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
- Pandora Sykes
How Do We Know We're Doing It Right: & Other Essays on Modern Life
In other words, so far as many reputable studies are concerned, television viewing does not significantly increase learning, is inferior to and less likely than print to cultivate higher-order, inferential thinking.
- Neil Postman
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
For in the end, he was trying to tell us that what afflicted the people in Brave New World was not that they were laughing instead of thinking, but that they did not know what they were laughing about and why they had stopped thinking.
- Neil Postman
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
As the 5G wireless radiation system was slowly being installed in Tucson, Arizona, USA, I started to lose over the air television reception. The more transmitters that were installed, the worse the reception became.
And the emu, not standing up to the cassowary, accompanied the cassowary on their continued journey of the safari, never to return because a zebra herd trapped them back into pre-color television times indefinitely.
- J.S. Mason
The Ghost Therapist...And Other Grand Delights
The brevity of our lives makes watching TV seem like a symptom of insanity.
You are more likely to find three TVs inside a randomly selected house than you are to find a single book that is or was not read to pass an exam, to please God, or to be a better cook.
The instrument (the telescreen, it was called) could be dimmed, but there was no way of shutting it off completely.
He was postliterate —total television.
- Michael Wolff
Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House
I bid you peace - said at the end of every TV episode of The Frugal Gourmet
- Jeff Smith
She put others before herself and yet you hate her. What did she do to you?
- Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz
What is strong enough to drown out your own conscience?
- Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz
It was getting harder, however. American magazines still looked shiny and lively, but by the early 1960s, writers like Flora were sensing trouble. With television's exploding popularity, more and more people were staring at screens instead of turning pages. Big corporations like car manufacturers were pulling their advertising dollars out of print and spending them on the airwaves. Magazines were bleeding ad pages and readers, and editors scrambled to balance budgets by retooling audiences.
- Debbie Nathan
Sybil Exposed: The Extraordinary Story Behind the Famous Multiple Personality Case
Why is this interesting? Why are we watching?
- Kate Tempest
Brand New Ancients: A Poem
It is proper Netiquette to watch television online via native app when using mobile.
- David Chiles
TV in America created the most coherent reality distortion field that I’ve ever seen. Therein is the problem: People who vote watch TV, and they are hallucinating like a sonofabitch. Basically, what we have in this country is government by hallucinating mob.
- John Perry Barlow
Is my coitus whimsically inventive?
Those skirts are crunchy toast! Santana Lopez bent over in hers the other day, and I swear I could see her ovaries.
- Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk, and Ian Brennan
That is the studliest thing I have ever seen.
- Darren Star
For good health, watch what you eat. For a good head, watch what you watch.
Mtu yoyote anayedanganya ni Shetani, kwani Shetani ni baba wa uongo. Tusikubali kudanganywa ovyo, hasa watoto wetu, katika kipindi hiki cha utandawazi na teknolojia.
In the end, they will say this of the human race: they had the freedom to go anywhere, but sat in front of the television. They were each responsible for saving the world, but they turned over the channel.
- Craig Stone
How to Hide from Humans