Television Quotes All television is children's television.     Richard P. Adler Imitation is the sincerest form of television.     Fred Allen Television is a new medium. It's called a medium because nothing is well-done.     Fred Allen [Television is] the triumph of machine over people.     Fred Allen 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 If there's anything unsettling to the stomach, it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives.     Marlon Brando The one function TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were.     David Brinkley We are drawn to our television sets each April the way we are drawn to the scene of an accident.     Vincent Canby If it weren't for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we'd still be eating frozen radio dinners.     Johnny Carson Television news is like a lightning flash. It makes a loud noise, lights up everything around it, leaves everything else in darkness and then is suddenly gone.     Hodding Carter Television is more interesting than people. If it were not, we would have people standing in the corners of our rooms.     Alan Corenk Television is for appearing on - not for looking at.     Noel Coward I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.     Dwight D. Eisenhower MTV is the lava lamp of the 1980's.     Doug Ferrari Television enables you to be entertained in your home by people you wouldn't have in your home.     David Frost [The television is] an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home.     David Frost Don't you wish there were a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence? There's one marked 'Brightness,' but it doesn't work.     Gallagher Television has raised writing to a new low.     Samuel Goldwyn Seeing a murder on television... can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.     Alfred Hitchcock Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.     Alfred Hitchcock Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.     Ann Landers I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.     Groucho Marx Imagine what it would be like if TV actually were good. It would be the end of everything we know.     Marvin Minsky You know, I think that if parents would spend less time worrying about what their kids watch on TV and more time worrying about what's going on in their kids' lives, this world would be a much better place.     Trey Parker and Matt Stone I think that parents only get so offended by television because they rely on it as a babysitter and the sole educator of their kids.     Trey Parker and Matt Stone It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.     Rod Serling Dealing with network executives is like being nibbled to death by ducks.     Eric Sevareid The great thing about television is that if something important happens anywhere in the world, day or night, you can always change the channel.     From "Taxi" The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime television.     Unknown 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 Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative.     Kurt Vonnegut My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.     Peter De Vries TV is chewing gum for the eyes.     Frank Lloyd Wright Previous Subject - Technology | Next Subject - Temptation