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Showing posts with label Television Quotes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Television Quotes. Show all posts
Why should people pay good mon...
Why should people pay good money to go out and see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?
Why are sex and violence alway...
Why are sex and violence always linked? I'm afraid they'll blur together in people's minds - sexandviolence - until we can't tell them apart. I expect to hear a newscaster say, "The mob became unruly and the police were forced to resort to sex."
Whenever it's on it's like hav...
Whenever it's on it's like having somebody in my house that I want to get rid of and they won't leave. I hate the sound of it. All that noise and light coming from a piece of furniture.
When television is good, nothi...
When television is good, nothing is better. But when television is bad, nothing is worse. I invite you to sit down in front of your TV set and keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off. I can assure you that you will observe a vast wasteland.
When television came roaring i...
When television came roaring in after the war (World War II) they did a little school survey asking children which they preferred and why - television or radio. And there was this 7-year-old boy who said he preferred radio ""because the pictures were better.
What is being lost is the magi...
What is being lost is the magic of the word. I am not an image person. Imagery belongs to another civilization: the caveman. Caveman couldn't express himself so he put images on walls.
What compels you to stare, nig...
What compels you to stare, night after night, at all the glittering hokum that has been deliberately put together for you?
We cannot blame the schools al...
We cannot blame the schools alone for the dismal decline in SAT verbal scores. When our kids come home from school do they pick up a book or do they sit glued to the tube, watching music videos? Parents, don't make the mistake of thinking your kid only learns between 9:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m.
We can put it in its proper pe...
We can put it in its proper perspective by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books.
Watching old movies is like sp...
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.
TV. If kids are entertai...
TV. If kids are entertained by two letters, imagine the fun they'll have with twenty-six. Open your child's imagination. Open a book.
TV will never be a serious com...
TV will never be a serious competitor for radio because people must sit and keep their eyes glued on a screen; the average American family hasn't time for it.
TV a clever contraction derive...
TV a clever contraction derived from the words Terrible Vaudeville.
Today, watching television oft...
Today, watching television often means fighting, violence and foul language - and that's just deciding who gets to hold the remote control.
Time has convinced me of one t...
Time has convinced me of one thing. Television is for appearing on, not looking at.
There's a good deal in common ...
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.
There are days when any electr...
There are days when any electrical appliance in the house, including the vacuum cleaner, seems to offer more entertainment possibilities than the TV set.
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