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| Author | Quote | E-Mail this quote |
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| Ann Landers | Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other. | |
| Clive Barnes | Clive Barnes Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want. | |
| David Brinkley | The one function TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were. | |
| David Frost | Television enables you to be entertained in your home by people you wouldn't have in your home. | |
| Doug Ferrari | MTV is the lava lamp of the 1980's. | |
| Dwight David Eisenhower (1890 - 1969) | I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens. | |
| Edward R. Murrow | When the politicians complain that TV turns the proceedings into a circus, it should be made clear that the circus was already there, and that TV has merely demonstrated that not all the performers are well trained. | |
| Eric Sevareid | Dealing with network executives is like being nibbled to death by ducks. | |
| Ernie Kovacs | Television - a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well-done. | |
| Frank Lloyd Wright | TV is chewing gum for the eyes. | |
| Fred Allen (1894 - 1956) | Imitation is the sincerest form of television. | |
| Fred Allen (1894 - 1956) | Television is regarded as a medium because so little of it is rare or well done. | |
| From Taxi | The great thing about television is that if something important happens anywhere in the world, day or night, you can always change the channel. | |
| Gallagher | Don't you wish there were a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence? There's one marked "Brightness," but it doesn't work. | |
| Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977) | I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. | |
| Hodding Carter | Television news is like a lightning flash. It makes a loud noise, lights up everything around it, leaves everything else in darkness and then is suddenly gone. | |
| Lee Silvan (1942 - ) | Sometimes, probably by accident, the networks will actually show a short program segment right in the middle of all their commercials! - (professor & composer) | |
| Marvin Minksy | Imagine what it would be like if TV actually were good. It would be the end of everything we know. | |
| Peter De Vries (1910 - 1993) | My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too. | |
| Richard P. Adler | All television is children's television. | |
| Rod Serling | It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper. | |
| Samuel Goldwyn (1882 - 1974) | Television has raised writing to a new low. | |
| Unknown | The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime television. |
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