Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
Fred Allen

Anyone who watches golf on television would enjoy watching the grass grow on the greens.
Andy Rooney

Figure skating is an unlikely Olympic event but its good television. It's sort of a combination of gymnastics and ballet. A little sexy too which doesn't hurt.
Andy Rooney

Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders.
Margaret Mead

I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
Stephen Fry

My belief is that what comes across on the television is a capture of my enthusiasm and my passion for wildlife.
Steve Irwin

I could never have imagined that firing 67 people on national television would actually make me more popular, especially with the younger generation.
Donald Trump

I think Les Moonves is the most highly overrated person in television.
Donald Trump

Thank God we're living in a country where the sky's the limit, the stores are open late and you can shop in bed thanks to television.
Joan Rivers

In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.
Richard M. Nixon

I hate to mention age, but I come from an era when we weren't consumed by technology and television.
Jimmy Buffett

Much of the messy advertising you see on television today is the product of committees. Committees can criticize advertisements, but they should never be allowed to create them.
David Ogilvy

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.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

In day-to-day commerce, television is not so much interested in the business of communications as in the business of delivering audiences to advertisers. People are the merchandise, not the shows. The shows are merely the bait.
Les Brown

Unlike productions in the other arts, all television shows are born to destroy two other shows.
Les Brown

In 1949 there was a new thing called Television, to which my agency and advisers opposed as a performance medium.
Loretta Young

Television is chewing gum for the eyes.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Violence and smut are of course everywhere on the airwaves. You cannot turn on your television without seeing them, although sometimes you have to hunt around.
Dave Barry

The nuclear generator of brain sludge is television.
Dave Barry

Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.
Ann Landers