Television Quotes - BrainyQuote

Chilling out on the bed in your hotel room watching television, while wearing your own pajamas, is sometimes the best part of a vacation. Laura Marano

Best, Vacation, Hotel, Sometimes, Bed

We owe a lot to Thomas Edison - if it wasn't for him, we'd be watching television by candlelight. - Milton Berle

We owe a lot to Thomas Edison - if it wasn't for him, we'd be watching television by candlelight. Milton Berle

Funny, Watching, Him, Owe, Lot, Thomas

We live in a world where finding fault in others seems to be the favorite blood sport. It has long been the basis of political campaign strategy. It is the theme of much television programming across the world. It sells newspapers. Whenever we meet anyone, our first, almost unconscious reaction may be to look for imperfections. Henry B. Eyring

Live, World, Political, Strategy, Long

When you're young, you look at television and think, there's a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that's not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want. Steve Jobs

Business, Think, People, Look, You, Dumb

The media has changed. We now give broadcast licenses to philosophies instead of people. People get confused and think there is no difference between news and entertainment. People who project themselves as journalists on television don't know the first thing about journalism. They are just there stirring up a hockey game. Gary Ackerman

Think, People, Hockey, Media, Game, Know

One thing about television, it brings out personality. People are able to watch me in action. They hear my voice and see my eyes. There's nothing I can hide. That's me. Television brings out your flaws, your weaknesses, your strengths, and you truths. The audience either likes you or it doesn't. Donald Trump

Eyes, Personality, People, Voice, Me

And I believe that good journalism, good television, can make our world a better place. Christiane Amanpour

Good, World, Journalism, Believe, Place

I would like to thank those who spoke boldly against the 'gay marriage float' in the 2014 Rose Parade. Apparently, that vigorous opposition came from perhaps millions of people, and it had a significant influence on how the matter was handled on network and cable television. James Dobson

Marriage, People, Rose, Influence, Gay

I remember lying on the floor of my room, staring at a black-and-white television for most of the '80s - watching 'Diff'rent Strokes,' 'Facts of Life,' 'Silver Spoons,' Saturday morning cartoons, and 'Murder, She Wrote' while eating an insane amount of Stouffer's French bread pizza. I was sucked into it all. Jim Rash

Life, Morning, Pizza, Remember, Saturday

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace. - John Lennon

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace. John Lennon

Peace, Everyone, Then, Another, Instead

Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television. - Woody Allen

Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television. Woody Allen

Life, Art, Bad, Imitate, Imitates

It doesn't take money to turn off the television and cultivate real bonding time. Marianne Williamson

Time, Money, Real, Turn, Off, Bonding

Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into war, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves, engage in child labour, exchange information ceaselessly. They do everything but watch television. Lewis Thomas

War, Child, Information, Farm, Capture

I think there's a lot of anesthesia being - that's been pumped into American culture, the mass media television, various forms of entertainment, and the illusion of wealth that we now understand to be an illusion as well as the illusion that America is a world power. Parker Palmer

Culture, Power, Think, America, World

There is plenty of television. There are plenty of talk shows. There are plenty of comedians. But there is not plenty of worship of the true and living God. Charles R. Swindoll

God, Living, True, Talk, Worship, Plenty

Reality television paints a simple black-and-white world of good characters and bad characters; people we want to root for and people we want to see ruined. There is none of the gray ambiguity that colors real life. I no longer watch a lot of reality television, but sometimes I can't look away from 'Honey Boo Boo.' I just can't. Molly O'Keefe

Life, Colors, Simple, Good, People, Look

I'm just kind of taking a break now and enjoying the freedom of making my own choices. When you're on a television show for six years, they run your schedule. Andrew Shue

Freedom, Choices, Run, You, My Own, Kind

Television is a medium because anything well done is rare. - Fred Allen

Television is a medium because anything well done is rare. Fred Allen

Technology, Well Done, Done, Rare, Well

I read in the newspapers they are going to have 30 minutes of intellectual stuff on television every Monday from 7:30 to 8. to educate America. They couldn't educate America if they started at 6:30. Groucho Marx

America, Monday, Intellectual, Started

I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book. Groucho Marx

Book, Good, Library, Say, Find, Go

Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome. T. S. Eliot

Time, People, Listen, Entertainment

Television doesn't like politics very well, if you can infer that from the way they cover it. Jack Germond

Politics, You, Way, Like, Well, Very

The standardization of world culture, with local popular or traditional forms driven out or dumbed down to make way for American television, American music, food, clothes and films, has been seen by many as the very heart of globalization. Fredric Jameson

Music, Food, Heart, Culture, World, Down

In addition to needed gun control reforms, America urgently needs a stronger protest movement dedicated to reducing the glorification of violence in our culture - in music, film, television, video games, and even the Internet. Bernice King

Music, Culture, America, Control, Gun

In a live performance, it's a collaboration with the audience; you ride the ebb and flow of the crowd's energy. On television, you don't have that. Jon Batiste

Live, Ride, Collaboration, Energy, You

Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it. Alfred Hitchcock

Information, Done, Need, Well, Much

Loading...

Load more quotes

Explore Topics

Motivational
Quotes

Positive
Quotes

Inspirational
Quotes

Leadership
Quotes

BrainyQuote

BrainyQuote Desktop

BrainyQuote Mobile

Site

Quote Of The Day

Social

BQ on Pinterest

BQ on Instagram

Apps

iPhone/iPad app

Quote Of The Day Feeds

Javascript and RSS feeds

WordPress plugin

Quote of the Day Email

About

Copyright © 2001 - 2018 BrainyQuote

Please disable your ad blocker

OK