Best 1632 quotes in «television quotes» category

The once rather old-fashioned science of paleontology finds itself in a maelstrom of excitement and controversy. Astrophysicists, atmospheric scientists, geochemists, geophysicists, and statisticians are all contributing to the extinction problem. And the general public is taking part through television talk shows, magazine cover stories, newspaper editorials, and even the occasional mention in gossip columns.

The one good thing about television is the money; you can make a lot more money than in newspapers.

The one thing about program television that's absolutely incompatible with any concept of art is that all decisions have to be made by program directors, whereas art is autonomous. It may be dependent, but it knows no superiors.

The only thing high-definition television will do is provide sharper images of the garbage.

The only time I get recognised is when I go somewhere that is showing 'Coupling' on local television.

The only way to do news on television is not to be terrified of it.

The place I feel most at home is when I have health insurance. I really don't care how I get it, whether it's on film, or television or waiting tables, you know?

The preferred world can be seen any evening on television in the succession of programs where the good always wins

The printed page conveys information and commitment, and requires active involvement. Television conveys emotion and experience, and it's very limited in what it can do logically. It's an existential experience - there and then gone.

The problem is that people love music and they love television, but people don't love music on TV.

The problem is I want to do everything. I really love all of it, and I love every aspect of movie-making and storytelling, and I love television, I love the Internet. I wish I had time to do absolutely everything.

The problem is, there are definitely some genuinely lame things on television, and there's more at the bottom of the barrel, because the barrel in a sense has gotten bigger.

The problem with TV today is not just too much sex, violence, profanity, dishonesty or crude behavior. It is too much TV, period.

The programs constantly repeat themselves and one another. No one has yet had the nerve to say, 'As we have nothing sensible to tell you between now and 8:30, please tune in again then.

There are great characters on television.

The public, obviously, they takes things in a very simplest fashion and so they should. That's why we have such wonderful television.

The radio for these women is like television is for us today, which is really like looking at the radio.

There are life lessons that can be derived from reality television.

There are days when any electrical appliance in the house, including the vacuum cleaner, seems to offer more entertainment than the TV set.

There are many things clogging the television waves. You've got to fight for every bit of television households you can get.

There are moments when television systems are young and haven't formed properly, and there's room for lots of original stuff. Then things become more and more top-heavy with executives who are trying to guarantee the success of things.

There are some incredible television shows. It seems a sort of succumbed place to be. At the moment, I'm quite happy sort of flitting from place-to-place. I wouldn't want to relocate from where I am right now in terms of where I live.

There aren't very many women of color in positions of power, period. Much less on television.

There are some very good people in television, but a lot of fools running it.

There are television critics, movie critics, and theater critics too who I like and who I follow and I get genuinely bummed when they don't like something that I've written because I usually agree with them.

The reason 'The Carol Burnett Show' did so well in the ratings is because people were looking for that comfort zone when the whole family sat around and watched television and enjoyed it.

There are very few ethnic LGBT characters on television, so I am honored to represent them. I love supporting this cause, but it’s a big responsibility, and sometimes it’s a lot of pressure on me.

There is a middlebrow snobbery in America that praises everything on public television and disdains everything on the commercial networks as a blight.

There is a mass of people, we might as well admit, who if they weren't watching television, would be doing absolutely nothing else.

There is danger in the concentration of control in the television and radio networks, especially in the large television and radio stations; danger in the concentration of ownership in the press...and danger in the increasing concentration of selection by book publishers and reviewers and by the producers of radio and television programs.

There is a somewhat-surprising, somewhat totally predictable paucity of struggle in entertainment television. I do like being a part of a show featuring a family from a struggling socioeconomic strata.

There is no hope for television by means of cathode-ray tubes.

There is no question but that if Jesus Christ, or a great prophet from another religion, were to come back today, he would find it virtually impossible to convince anyone of his credentials despite the fact that the vast evangelical machine on American television is predicated on His imminent return among us sinners.

There is something supremely reassuring about television; the worst is always yet to come.

There'll never be any revolution. Humanity has bartered it for Coca-Cola and cable television.

[T]here may be some truth in that if the Arabs have some complaints about my policy towards Israel, they have to realize that the Jews in the U. S. control the entire information and propaganda machine, the large newspapers, the motion pictures, radio and television, and the big companies, and there is a force that we have to take into consideration.

The repeat run of Fawlty Towers (BBC2) drew bigger audiences than ever and deservedly so. Statistical surveys reveal that only the television critic of the Spectator is incapable of seeing the joke, which is that Basil Fawlty has the wrong temperament to be a hotel proprietor, just as some other people have the wrong temperament to be television critics.

There's always been an incredible amount of junk music, and junk everything. Marshall McLuhan said that a medium surrounds a previous medium, and turns the previous medium into an art form. So, what was once a junk culture, like film, television surrounded it and turned it into an art form.

There's a lot of stuff I want to do, just things that I want to explore that don't involve show business. I'm going to become a television critic. Can you imagine? But I would even consider becoming a baseball scout. Traveling around the heartland looking for the next world-beating phenom.

There's an awful lot of terrible television which I could do, but I mostly stick to Have I Got News for You.

There`s a fine line between balanced journalism and trial by television.

There's a lot of great stuff on television and that's very appealing to actors who want to work, who do good quality and high quality work. But you're always concerned that the time demands on television will interrupt or interfere with your film work.

There's definitely a wave of Brits doing great work on American television, and I wouldn't mind being one of them!

There's nothing good on the television; let's burn a witch. It must have been terribly exciting to live in those times.

There's no set designer like your own self; you furnish the mise-en-scène, the wardrobe, the physical proportions of the actor, and the setting. Then radio is doing something that television very rarely achieves.

There's no denying that television is one of the most powerful propaganda media we've ever invented.

There's nothin' you can get from a book that you can't get from a television fastah!" -Harry Wormwood

There's so many things that can go wrong in the execution of a project like a television show or a movie, so many little elements, any number of things, all the way to marketing - like they could market it poorly and nobody finds it and down it goes.

There's room for a diversity of ages on television.

There's so little difference between television and features as far as you make the film. I mean, you have less money and it's a little quicker, but the concept is all on television.