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Television |
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Quotations
 | In an age in which the media broadcast countless pieces of foolishness, the educated man is defined not by what he knows, but by what he doesn't know. — Nicolas Gomez Davila, 1913-1994, Colombian writer 12 likes |
 | In the information age, you don’t teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show. — Timothy Leary, 1920-1996, American psychologist 6 likes |
 | Never pass up a chance to have sex or appear on television. — Gore Vidal, 1925-2012, American writer 4 likes |
 | I cannot sing, dance or act; what else would I be but a talk show host. — Dave Letterman, 1947-, American TV talk show host 4 likes |
 | Laughter on American television has taken the place of the chorus in Greek tragedy. — Jean Baudrillard, 1929-2007, French intellectual 3 likes |
 | Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television. — Woody Allen, 1935-, American actor & film director 3 likes |
 | When I got my first television set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships — Andy Warhol, 1928-1987, American artist 3 likes |
 | Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs. — Zig Ziglar, 1926-2012, American self-help writer 3 likes |
 | Television has changed the American child from an irresistible force into an immovable object. — Laurence J Peter, 1919-1990, Canadian writer & educator 2 likes |
| Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they're scraping the top of the barrel. — Gore Vidal, 1925-2012, American writer 2 likes |
 | I would never see a good movie for the first time on television. — Jean-Luc Godard, 1930-2022, French film director 2 likes |
 | Television is the triumph of machine over people. — Fred Allen, 1894-1956, American comedian 2 likes |
 | CNN is one of the participants in the war. I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected president but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power. — Arthur Clarke, 1917-2008, British Sci-Fi writer 2 likes |
 | If the use of leisure time is confined to looking at TV for a few extra hours every day, we will deteriorate as a people. — Eleanor Roosevelt, 1884-1962, Wife of the 32nd USA president 2 likes |
 | Television allows thousands of people to laugh at the same joke and still remain alone. |
 | Television is for appearing on, not looking at. |
 | In television, images are projected at you. You are the screen. The images wrap around you. You are the vanishing point. — Marshall McLuhan, 1911-1980, Canadian academic & media theorist |
 | The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little. |
 | The evil of television is not in television, it is in the world. |
 | Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house. |
Funny Quotes
 | One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us. — Kurt Vonnegut, 1922-2007, American writer 5 likes |
 | I find television very educational. Every time someone switches it on I go into another room and read a good book. — Groucho Marx, 1890-1977, American comedian 4 likes |
 | Men don't care what's on TV. They only care what else is on TV. — Jerry Seinfeld, 1954-, American comedian 4 likes |
| Television is a device that permits people who haven't anything to do to watch people who can't do anything. — Fred Allen, 1894-1956, American comedian 3 likes |
 | In TV today, you can say I pricked my finger, but you can't say it the other way around. — George Carlin, 1936-2008, American comedian 3 likes |
| Television is a medium because anything well done is rare. — Fred Allen, 1894-1956, American comedian 2 likes |
| Imitation is the sincerest form of television. — Fred Allen, 1894-1956, American comedian 2 likes |
 | Television is the box they buried entertainment in. |
| Television. That’s where movies go when they die. |
| Don't you hate “To Be Continued”s on TV? I mean the whole reason you watch a TV show is because it ends. If I wanted a long, boring story with no point to it, I've got my life. |
| Neat and clean. That's the way I want to live. My idea of the perfect living room would be the bridge on the Starship Enterprise: big chair, nice TV, remote control. That's why Star Trek really was the ultimate male fantasy. Hurtling through space in your living room, watching TV. |
