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The kid was deliberately and maliciously watching television at him.
Douglas Adams1952–2001The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (1988), Ch. 6
- Comedy
- Television
Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
Fred Allen1894–1956Attributed in Newsweek, 14 January 1980.
- Television
T.V. has made going to the theatre seem pointless, photography has pretty much killed painting but graffiti has remained gloriously unspoilt by progress.
BBanksyborn 1973Wall and Piece (2007)
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 Barnes1927–2008
- Television
What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself.
Roland Barthes1915–1980Mythologies (1957), “Le monde où l’on catche”
The sounds of junk culture are heard over a ground bass of extremism. Our entertainments swarm with specters of world crisis. Nothing moderate can have any claim to our attention.
Saul Bellow1915–2005“A Second Half Life” (1991), p. 326
If there’s anything unsettling to the stomach, it’s watching actors on television talk about their personal lives.
Marlon Brando1924–2004
- Acting
- Television
I like television. I still believe that television is the most powerful form of communication on Earth⁠—I just hate what is being done with it.
Alton Brownborn 1962
- Television
People who see life as anything more than pure entertainment are missing the point.
George Carlin1937–2008When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops? (2004)
- Life & Death
People will pay more to be entertained than educated.
Johnny Carson1925–2005
- Education
If it weren’t for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we’d still be eating frozen radio dinners.
Johnny Carson1925–2005
- Television
I think of him as a well-intentioned, poorly informed, high-status idiot.
Stephen Colbertborn 1964On his character in The Colbert Report, in an interview on 60 Minutes (30 April 2006)
- Comedy
- Television
Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.
Walt Disney1901–1966The Quotable Walt Disney (2001)
- Ideas
A democratic civilization will save itself only if it makes the language of the image into a stimulus for critical reflection — not an invitation for hypnosis.
Umberto Eco1932–2016“Can Television Teach?” in Screen Education 31 (1979), p. 12
- Democracy
- Television
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. Eliot1888–1965New York Post (Sept 22, 1963)
- Television