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I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in all this noise?
Federico Fellini1920–1993I’m a Born Liar (2003), “Television”
- Television
The young watch television twenty-four hours a day, they don’t read and they rarely listen.
Federico Fellini1920–1993I’m a Born Liar (2003), “Younger Generation”
- Television
- Youth
In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.
F. Scott Fitzgerald1896–1940The Great Gatsby (1925), Chapter IIIIn context
I wish TV had a knob so you could turn up the intelligence. The one marked Brightness doesn’t work.
Gallagher1946–2022
- Comedy
- Television
Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?
Samuel Goldwyn1882–1974
- Television
I am proud to have been in a business that gives pleasure, creates beauty, and awakens our conscience, arouses compassion, and perhaps most importantly, gives millions a respite from our so violent world.
Audrey Hepburn1929–1993Statement accepting the Screen Actors Guild Achievement Award, read by Julia Roberts, because of Hepburn’s failing health. (January 1993)
- Movies
Television has brought back murder into the home, where it belongs.
Alfred Hitchcock1899–1980
- Television
One of television’s great contributions is that it brought murder back into the home, where it belongs.
Alfred Hitchcock1899–1980National Observer (15 August 1966).
- Comedy
- Television
We think basically you watch television to turn your brain off, and you work on your computer when you want to turn your brain on.
Steve Jobs1955–2011Interview in Macworld magazine (February 2004)
- Computers
- Television
I am a great friend to public amusements; for they keep people from vice.
Samuel Johnson1709–1784Life of Johnson (Boswell) (1772)
We glorify killing on movie and television screens and call it entertainment.
Robert F. Kennedy1925–1968On the Mindless Menace of Violence (1968)
- Movies
- Television
If the player isn’t tricked into believing that the world is real, then there’s no point in making the game.
Hideo Kojimaborn 1963A Mind Forever Voyaging: A History of Storytelling in Video Games (2012)
Television is where you watch people in your living room that you would not want near your house.
Groucho Marx1890–1977
- Television
The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it’s so accidental. It’s so much like life.
Arthur Miller1915–2005The New York Times (May 9, 1984)
- Acting
Today I interviewed a squirrel in my backyard and then threw to commercial. Somebody help me.
Conan O'Brienborn 1963First Tweet on Twitter, February 24, 2010 Twitter
- Comedy
- Television