Television Quotes
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Television was not invented to make human beings vacuous, but is an emanation of their vacuity.
Malcolm Muggeridge
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Close your senses and the imagination comes alive. It's inside us all, dulled by endless television reruns and by a society that reins in fantasy as something not to be trusted, something to be purged. But it's in there, deep inside, a spark waiting to set a touch-paper alight.
Sayyid Tahir al-Hashimi
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I have got up at truly deplorable hours in the morning to confront Vancouver's Jack Webster on television because I have been told that is the place to get exposure for ideas.
Barbara Amiel
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My first few years as TV critic, I would go to parties and people usually older Posties or ex-Posties who seemed to pride themselves on not watching very much television would take me by the arm and insist that I watch this show they'd recently starting watching on DVD, about drug dealers in Baltimore.
Hank Stuever
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Let us all bask in television's warm glowing warming glow.
Dan Castellaneta
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I was about 12 years old and I was sitting watching the television and it was some kind of talent show, you know, and on marches this monkey, this ape, in a pair of red-checked trousers with a little matching jacket holding a ukelele and it started jigging around playing it, and it was looking straight into the camera, straight at me, and I remember thinking, that's it, that'll be me, you know, that'll be me.
Nick Cave
The Birthday Party
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The internet has surrounded television and turned television into an art form.
Joseph Henry "T Bone" Burnett III
The Alpha Band
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I would love to. A dream of mine is to produce films, as well as to produce content for television.
Janet Jackson
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When I was 9, I saw a wrestler on television named Gorgeous George. He said, "I'm beautiful. I'm so pretty that if a sucker touches my face, I'll kill him. If he messes with my hair, I'll pummel him." I said to myself, "That's a good idea. I am the greatest, I'm pretty." And then I took it a little further than he did.
Muhammad Ali
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There was a docudrama that was made, called 'The Death Of A Princess,' which was about a true story in Saudi Arabia. It was about a public execution for adultery. And when the movie was aired on British television, the Saudi government threatened to cut off oil exports and to cut off diplomatic relations.
Evan Osnos
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Jeff always says, "In the cinema, everybody goes to sci-fi. Those are the biggest movies. But, in television, nobody wants to touch it with a barge pole." It's strange. I think it's because maybe there's a legacy of television shows that depicted sci-fi in a certain way that turns off a lot of viewers, so maybe there's a negative connotation.
J. H. Wyman
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I have had my television aerials removed. It is the moral equivalent of a prostate operation.
Malcolm Muggeridge
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I estimate a very conservative number of 25,000 dead homeboys. If 25,000 white people were killed in two decades of urban drive-bys, you could imagine there would be prime time television, there would be counseling, economic packages, truces would be negotiated by diplomats with experience in Northern Ireland or the Balkans.
B. R. Hayden
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I don't listen to music, and I don't particularly watch television, so if anyone wants to come over and just hang out with me sitting at the table in silence, you know, eating a dish of rice... I don't get too many takers.
Chrissie Hynde
Pretenders
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I was a massive fan of 'Twin Peaks.' Massive. I don't know how any of us grew up in this age of television and weren't astounded, and saying that, I'm still shocked that that was on network television.
Michelle Forbes
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The media want the stories and the television companies want the stories and the papers want the story and means that it is everyday.
Alan Hansen
