Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Pilger

The censorship is such on television in the U.S. that films like mine don't stand a chance.

Nick Hancock

When Peter Beardsley appears on television, daleks hide behind the sofa.

Marya Mannes

television and radio violence was considered by most experts of minimal importance as a contributory cause of youthful killing. ... there were always enough experts to assure the public that crime and violence had nothing to do with crime and violence.

Marshall McLuhan

In television, images are projected at you. You are the screen. The images wrap around you. You are the vanishing point.

Nic Pizzolatto

I was raised by television. It was my first cultural window. It was a constant companion.

Nhat Hanh

A human being is like a television set with millions of channels.... We cannot let just one channel dominate us. We have the seed of everything in us, and we have to recover our own sovereignty.

John Green

Television is a passivity.

Pat Sajak

Anyone who has seen me spin that heavy, giant wheel on television knows that I'm not a steroid user

Martin Frost

Every day I turn on my television set and I see Newt Gingrich on television, I rejoice.

Nick Offerman

I really thought that I'd be doing Shakespeare, honest to God. I did not foresee the whole action television thing. That was God's joke.

Natasha Lyonne

I have a television, but it's not connected to anything. I watch everything on my computer.

Mitchell Hurwitz

There's a lot that you can do in television that you can't do with a film, theoretically. At the time, the only possibility was to do a movie.

Lucille Ball

Television is the quickest form of recognition in the world.

Michael Schur

I don't know why anybody does anything in the world of television.

Michael O'Donoghue

Television doesn't want to admit it has those dreadful roach ads on anyway.

Neil Cross

I find broadcast intensely stressful, to the extent that perversely, I've never seen anything I've written actually broadcast on television. So, the audience response is something which I became aware of gradually.

Kristen Johnston

I've always just gone with the best role, and I don't care if it's in theater, film or television.

Kiefer Sutherland

I didn't realize that television has gone through immense changes and has become very progressive.

Laurence Fishburne

I wouldn't say that going into a weekly television series is actually stepping away from anything. It's another medium in which to work as an actor.

Television has a conscience. It is how we disseminate our value system.

Patti LuPone

The theater is a tough place. It's not cushioned the way it is in film and television.

Nathan Fillion

What I know of Steve Trevor is everything that I learned from 'Wonder Woman,' the television series with Lynda Carter. And I don't remember much. I do remember his uniform, though.

Nancy Mitford

oh how television diminishes everything.

Julian Bond

I've appeared on a weekly syndicated television show since 1980

Keith Olbermann

Fox News is hated because they're elitists, and the worst winners television's ever seen.

Ken Dodd

Television is like a great monster, eating your gags as fast as you say them.

Ray Bradbury

Television is very dangerous. Because it repeats and repeats and repeats our disasters, instead of our triumphs.

Michael Pollan

Avoid foods you see advertised on television.

Michael Pollan

Don't eat any foods you've ever seen advertised on television.

Michael Pollan

Lawns are a form of television

Michael Shermer

Conspiracies are a perennial favorite for television producers because there is always a receptive audience.

Noel Coward

Television is for appearing on, not looking at.

Noel Gallagher

I don't like being on television when I'm playing live. I don't even like being on Jools Holland or any of them programs.