Television has raised writing to a new low. – Samuel Goldwyn
Theatre is life. Cinema is art. Television is furniture. – Author Unknown
I could have been a doctor, but there were too many good shows on TV. – Jason Love
I have had my television aerials removed. It is the moral equivalent of a prostate operation. – Malcolm Muggeridge
If the television craze continues with the present level of programs, we are destined to have a nation of morons. – Daniel Marsh, 1950
Television is a gold goose that lays scramble eggs; and it is futile and probably fatal to beat it for not laying caviar. – Lee Loevinger
On cable TV they have a weather channel – 24 hours of weather. We had something like that where I grew up. We called it a window. – Dan Spencer
The marvels – of film, radio, and television – are marvels of one-way communication, which is not communication at all. – Milton Mayer
The great thing about television is that if something important happens anywhere in the world, day or night, you can always change the channel. – Author Unknown
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too. – Peter De Vries
Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television. – Rita Mae Brown
Imagine what it would be like if TV actually were good. It would be the end of everything we know. – Marvin Minksy
MTV is the lava lamp of the 1980s. – Doug Ferrari
CNN, ESPN, ABC, TNT but mostly B.S… – The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy, "Television, the Drug of the Nation"
Television is the first truly democratic culture – the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want. – Clive Barnes
Television? No good will come of this device. The word is half Greek and half Latin. – Author Unknown
TV — a clever contraction derived from the words Terrible Vaudeville. – Goodman Ace
The triumph of machine over people. – Fred Allen, about television
I have never seen a bad television program, because I refuse to. God gave me a mind, and a wrist that turns things off. – Jack Paar
There are days when any electrical appliance in the house, including the vacuum cleaner, seems to offer more entertainment possibilities than the TV set. – Harriet van Horne
