Popular Quotes and Sayings about Television |
| It is easier to stay out than get out. ~Mark Twain The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime television. ~Unknown Eat a live toad the first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day. ~Unknown Go, and never darken my towels again. ~Groucho Marx Either this man is dead or my watch has stopped. ~Groucho Marx Everything is in a state of flux, including the status quo. ~Robert Byrne [Television is] the triumph of machine over people. ~Fred Allen We are drawn to our television sets each April the way we are drawn to the scene of an accident. ~Vincent Canby I never know how much of what I say is true. ~Bette Midler 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 %22Taxi%22 Dealing with network executives is like being nibbled to death by ducks. ~Eric Sevareid 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 Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other. ~Ann Landers If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee. ~Abraham Lincoln 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 There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking. ~Thomas A. Edison The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys. ~Sir William Preece The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name. ~Aldous Huxley Television has raised writing to a new low. ~Samuel Goldwyn TV is chewing gum for the eyes. ~Frank Lloyd Wright Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it. ~Alfred Hitchcock Drama is life with the dull bits cut out. ~Alfred Hitchcock Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke. ~Hermann Hesse 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 |