Television Quotes
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As long as we believe it is food that causes us to overeat, we are lost. Television, friends, and weather seem pretty unrelated to what we eat. That’s why they have such a powerful effect on us.
Brian Wansink
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We live in a big and marvelously varied world. Television ought to reflect that.
Edwin Newman
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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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People know elections, like television commercials, are not real.
William Greider
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What's amazing about doing movies, compared to television, there's an ending you can see. There's an enthusiasm to it.
Jim Gaffigan
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Television came looking for me; it was never a plan to become a presenter.
Neil Oliver
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I've got to tell you, the Internet is a place you go when you want to turn your brain on, and television is a place you go when you want to turn your brain off. I'm not at all convinced that the twain will meet.
Steve Jobs
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Television played its part, too. It exalted the picture and depreciated the word. The "talking head" was considered dull television and to be avoided whenever possible in favor of something, anything, moving, though a head that talks well is a pearl beyond price.
Edwin Newman
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I do come from theater. I didn't spend a lot of time there 'cause once I started in television, I just kind of stayed there.
Rekha Sharma
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By bringing the voices of the ordinary people faced with extraordinary challenges to television screens around the world, I hope to affect change in one community at a time.
Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
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I don't keep from despairing. I let myself despair. I just don't linger there for too long. There's too much to laugh about, two knuckleheads I have to feed, and a lot of really excellent television to watch. I think the mess we're in deserves the full range of human feeling, from despair to its opposite, which I would say is not hope, happiness, or peace, but freedom.
Emily Raboteau
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When I first became recognizable from appearing on television, I abused my notoriety as much as I possibly could, at the expense of both my health and personal relationships.
Stephen Gilchrist Glover
