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The term HDTV (high definition television) was coined to describe the possibility of getting pretty pictures. But what
-Reed E. Hunt
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We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books.
-Robert Maynard Hutchins
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Anyone afraid of what he thinks television does to the world is probably just afraid of the world.
-Clive James
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Watching old movies is like spending an evening with those people next door. They bore us, and we wouldn't go out of our way to see them; we drop in on them because they're so close. If it took some effort to see old movies, we might try to find out which were the good ones, and if people saw only the good ones maybe they would still respect old movies. As it is, people sit and watch movies that audiences walked out on thirty years ago. Like Lot's wife, we are tempted to take another look, attracted not by evil but by something that seems much more shameful -- our own innocence.
-Pauline Kael
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Television, despite its enormous presence, turns out to have added pitifully few lines to the communal memory.
-Justin Kaplan
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Television -- a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-Kovacs
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Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.
-Ann Landers
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Do not, on a rainy day, ask your child what he feels like doing, because I assure you that what he feels like doing, you won't feel like watching.
-Fran Lebowitz
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Educational television should be absolutely forbidden. It can only lead to unreasonable disappointment when your child discovers that the letters of the alphabet do not leap up out of books and dance around with royal-blue chickens.
-Fran Lebowitz
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There's a good deal in common between the mind's eye and the TV screen, and though the TV set has all too often been the boobtube, it could be, it can be, the box of dreams.
-Ursula K. LeGuin
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The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube.
-Norman Mailer
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I find television very educational. Every time someone switches it on I go into another room and read a good book.
-Groucho Marx
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Through television and movies, our society is a virtual captive of an entire world of violence
-Robert E. McAfee, MD.
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I made a pact with myself a long time ago: Never watch anything stupider than you. It's helped me a lot. I made a pact with myself a long time ago: Never watch anything stupider than you. It's helped me a lot.
-Bette Midler
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In the theater, while you recognized that you were looking at a house, it was a house in quotation marks. On screen, the quotation marks tend to be blotted out by the camera.
-Arthur Miller
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Television was not invented to make human beings vacuous, but is an emanation of their vacuity.
-Malcolm Muggeridge
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Much of what passes for quality on British television is no more than a reflection of the narrow elite which controls it and has always thought that its tastes were synonymous with quality.
-Rupert Murdoch
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If we were to do the Second Coming of Christ in color for a full hour, there would be a considerable number of stations which would decline to carry it on the grounds that a Western or a quiz show would be more profitable.
-Edward R. Murrow
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Man watches his history on the screen with apathy and an occasional passing flicker of horror or indignation.
-Conor Cruise O'Brien
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The television screen, so unlike the movie screen, sharply reduced human beings, revealed them as small, trivial, flat, in two banal dimensions, drained of color. Wasn't there something reassuring about it! -- that human beings were in fact merely images of a kind registered in one another's eyes and brains, phenomena composed of microscopic flickering dots like atoms. They were atoms -- nothing more. A quick switch of the dial and they disappeared and who could lament the loss?
-Joyce Carol Oates
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Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life.
-Camille Anna Paglia
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Already we Viewers, when not viewing, have begun to whisper to one another that the more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.
-J. B. (John Boynton) Priestley
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The great networks are there to prove that ideas can be canned like spaghetti. If everything ends up by tasting like everything else, is that not the evidence that it has been properly cooked?
-Frederic Raphael
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Performing doesn't turn me on. It's an egomaniac business, filled with prima donnas -- including this one.
-Dan Rather
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The smallest bookstore still contains more ideas of worth than have been presented in the entire history of television.
-Andrew Ross
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Books about Television
