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Television watching should more properly be called television staring; it engages eye and ear simultaneously in a relentless and persistent way and leaves no room for daydreaming. This is what makes watching such an inferior form of leisure
-Witold Rybczynski
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Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry.
-Nathalie Sarraute
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People assume you can't be shy and be on television. They're wrong.
-Diane Sawyer
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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
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If we had had the right technology back then, you would have seen Eva Braun on the Donahue show and Adolf Hitler on Meet the Press.
-Ed Turner
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I would rather live my life than watch another person's life on T.V.
-Source Unknown
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I'm always amazed that people will actually choose to sit in front of the television and just be savaged by stuff that belittles their intelligence.
-Alice Walker
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I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.
-Orson Welles
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The most puzzling thing about TV is the steady advance of the sponsor across the line that has always separated news from promotion, entertainment from merchandising. The advertiser has assumed the role of originator, and the performer has gradually been eased into the role of peddler.
-E.B. (Elwyn Brooks) White
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Television hangs on the questionable theory that whatever happens anywhere should be sensed everywhere. If everyone is going to be able to see everything, in the long run all sights may lose whatever rarity value they once possessed, and it may well turn out that people, being able to see and hear practically everything, will be specially interested in almost nothing.
-E.B. (Elwyn Brooks) White
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Again and again parents describe...the trancelike nature of their children's television watching. The child's facial expression is transformed. The jaw is relaxed and hangs open slightly; the tongue rests on the front teeth. The eyes have a glazed, vacuous look.
-Marie Winn
The Plug-In Drug
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TV -- chewing gum for the eyes.
-Frank Lloyd Wright
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What do a few lies on TV matter? They can be swallowed, digested and excreted, or follow people when they doze off to sink into oblivion.
-Zhang Jie
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Books about Television
