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The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little. Ray Bradbury Television 169
The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime television. Anonymous Television 100
People are sheep. TV is the shepherd. Jess C. Scott Television 94
You cannot blame porn. When I was young I used to masturbate to Gilligans Island. Ron Jeremy Television 88
I find television very educational. Every time someone switches it on I go into another room and read a good book. Groucho Marx Television 85
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 Television 85
Through television and movies, our society is a virtual captive of an entire world of violence Robert E. McAfee, MD.Television 84
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 Television 83
Television -- a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done. Kovacs Television 83
Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other. Ann Landers Television 82
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 Television 79
La televisin no es slo instrumento de comunicacin es tambin a la vez paidea un instrumento antropogentico un medium que genera un nuevo nthropos un nuevo tipo de ser humano. Giovanni Sartori Television 78
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 Television 78
Millie Does the White Clown love you Ray Bradbury Television 78
Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things. Jean Baudrillard Television 77
Saturday morning was their unrestricted television time and they usually took advantage of it to watch a series of cartoon shows that would certainly have been impossible before the discovery of LSD. Jeff Lindsay Television 72
There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room. It is even stranger than a man talking to himself or a woman standing dreaming at her stove. It is as if another planet is communicating with you. Jean Baudrillard Television 70
We must together as a nation stop watching Fox. Jon Stewart Television 69
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 Television 68
TV -- chewing gum for the eyes. Frank Lloyd Wright Television 67
Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome. TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot Television 66
CalvinIt says here that religion is the opiate of the masses....what do you suppose that means Television ...it means that Karl Marx hadnt seen anything yet Bill Watterson Television 65
Television was not invented to make human beings vacuous, but is an emanation of their vacuity. Malcolm Muggeridge Television 63
I got sick of turning on the TV and seeing my face. Michael J. Fox Television 62
Sometimes I look around my living room and the most real thing in the room is the television. Its bright and vivid and the rest of my life looks drab. So I turn the damn thing off. That does it every time. Get my life back. Michael Crichton Television 61
Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry. Nathalie Sarraute Television 61
A three -- to four -- to five-hour experience with nothingness. Frederic Glezer Television 58
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 Television 57
The smallest bookstore still contains more ideas of worth than have been presented in the entire history of television. Andrew Ross Television 56
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 Television 55
Most people buy the highest quality television sets only to watch the lowest quality television shows. Jarod Kintz Television 55
The amount of educational programming on television today is simply desensitizing. The only reason left to go to school is to see gun violence. Bauvard Television 55
The term HDTV (high definition television) was coined to describe the possibility of getting pretty pictures. But what Reed E. Hunt Television 53
If you are mesmerized by televised stupidity and dont get to hear or read stories about your world you can be fooled into thinking that the world isnt miraculousand it is. Anne Lamott Television 51
A democratic civilization will save itself only if it makes the language of the image into a stimulus for critical reflection not an invitation for hypnosis. Umberto Eco Television 50
The most exciting acting tends to happen in roles you never thought you could play. John Lithgow Television 50
Television is the soma of Aldous Huxleys Brave New World. Robert MacNeil Television 49
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. William Hodding Carter, Jr.Television 49
Television characters live inside our minds as though theyre actual people. In fact we know more about them than we do about most people in our physical lives. Neal Pollack Television 48
I havent had a TV in 10 years and I really dont miss it. Cause its always so much more fun to be with people than it ever was to be with a television. Chuck Palahniuk Television 47
Actualmente el pueblo soberano opina sobre todo en funcin de cmo la televisin le induce a opinar. Y en el hecho de conducir la opinin el poder de la imagen se coloca en el centro de todos los procesos de la poltica contempornea. Giovanni Sartori Television 46
Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life. Camille Anna Paglia Television 46
Most people gaze neither into the past nor the future they explore neither truth nor lies. They gaze at the television. Radiohead Television 45
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 Television 44
Television thrives on unreason, and unreason thrives on television. It strikes at the emotions rather than the intellect. Sir Robin Day Television 42
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 Television 41
But though it had prevailed against such fierce adversaries as fire and flood it had fallen victim softly and swiftly to television in the 1960s. Kate Morton Television 39
Were all watching each other so theres no chance for censorship. The main problem is the idiot TV. If you watch local news your head will turn to mush. Ray Bradbury Television 39
Every hour of television that a person watches after the age of twentyfive the researchers concluded potentially snips twentytwo minutes off of the viewers life span. Gretchen Reynolds Television 39
Ive noticed that you are retarded Dr. Phil. Christy Leigh Stewart Television 38

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