Television Quotes
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The future is electronic. It's radio, television and the Internet; it's not really newspapers anymore.
Will McDonough
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A great day for me is not getting out of bed. I like to see how many snacks I can eat..and how many really bad TV shows I can watch.
Gwen Stefani No Doubt
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I watch television. Game shows - I hate the hosts and the people on them, and I love the questions and the answers.
Harry Dean Stanton
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Television is of great educational value. It teaches you while still young how to (a) kill, (b) rob, (c) embezzle, (d) shoot, (e) poison, and, generally speaking, (f) how to grow up into a Wild West outlaw or gangster by the time you leave school.
George Mikes
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With a television show, it's about fighting to get it on the screen every week. It's like going into battle, and you have to fight these fights. Some are big fights, some are skirmishes, some you can come to detente on, but it's always a fight.
Alfred Gough
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I had no plans once I finished my football career, which was a problem, so I had to go looking for work. Television was the one area that it was easier to get a job than anywhere else.
Alan Hansen
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Thank God for theater and film and television and my very, very, very lucky life.
Jonathan Banks
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Spraying to kill trees and and raspberry bushes after a clear-cut merely looks unaesthetic for a short time, but tree plantations are deliberate ecodeath. Yet, tree planting is often pictorially advertised on television and in national magazines by focusing on cupped caring hands around a seedling. But forests do not need this godlike interference... Planting tree plantations is permanent deforestation... The extensive planting of just one exotic species removes thousands of native species.
Bernd Heinrich
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We have entered a time when a writer's first idea is his best idea, when the first thing a reporter hears is the first thing that she reports. We live in a time now when we have seen major television networks take video off of YouTube and broadcast it to millions of Americans without verifying whether the video had been fabricated or not.
Scott Pelley
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I like to stay home and watch television. The Game Show channel, mostly.
Harry Dean Stanton
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TV has made everyone so vanilla it's nearly impossible to tell one anchor apart from another.
Cenk Uygur
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Pete Rozelle used television to get the game to the American public by creating the Super Bowl and making it the biggest sporting event in the world.
Will McDonough
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I grew up in New York City in the '80s, and it was the epicenter of hip-hop. There was no Internet. Cable television wasn't as broad. I would listen to the radio, hear cars pass by playing a song, or tape songs off of the radio. At that time, there was such an excitement around hip-hop music.
Michael Rapaport
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You can get an awful lot of effects into the customer's mind for a great deal less time and money in radio than you can in television.
Harry Shearer
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I've always approached television from a little more cinematic perspective, if not a much more cinematic perspective because of the shows I have been fortunate enough to work on.
Bear McCreary
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I've got about 27 gigs right now. I've got radio, I've got television, I've got The Washington Post.
Tony Kornheiser
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Television and film are such streamlined story mediums. You can't really meander about, whereas a novel is an interior experience.
Steven Bochco
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Game Of Thrones is arguably the hottest thing on television.
Cass Sunstein
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Television – a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
Ernie Kovacs
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People assume that because you are on TV you must be a millionaire, but unfortunately it doesn't work like that.
Simon Bird
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We've been playing a lot with television. We have some shows set up and then some new shows that are about to be set up. That's gonna be kind of a fun thing for us as producers.
Susan Downey
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Obama's got a great sense of humor, but mainly he has a great thinking presence, which is uncommon. It's hard to imagine being able to do, think over answers and deliver them on television. If I were president I would constantly be spluttering.
Roy Blount, Jr.
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Television came looking for me; it was never a plan to become a presenter.
Neil Oliver
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The work of television is to establish false contexts and to chronicle the unraveling of existing contexts; finally, to establish the context of no-context and to chronicle it.
George W. S. Trow