My father hated radio and could not wait for television
to be invented so he could hate that too.
-- Peter De Vries
Television is to news what bumper stickers are to philosophy.
-- Richard Nixon
Janet Jackson's 'wardrobe malfunction' cost CBS Five hundred and Fifty grand this
week. Boy, what a tough week for the network. First, the false documents on President
Bush's National Guard record and now this. CBS says they have learned their lesson:
no more trying to expose boobs.
-- Bill Maher
Kid to his Dad as they watch TV: "Dad, tell me again how when you were my age you
had to walk all the way across the room to change a channel."
-- Anonymous
On cable TV they have a weather channel - 24 hours of weather. We had something
like that where I grew up. We called it a window.
-- Dan Spencer
I won't eat anything that has intelligent life, but I'd gladly eat a network executive
or a politician.
-- Marty Feldman
The rain forest has Sting. Now Siberia has Jack Dee. Someone had to draw the short
straw. In this case it was the rain forest.
-- Jack Dee (on filming in Siberia, Mail On Sunday, 8 Dec 2002)
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into
the other room and read a book.
-- Groucho Marx
The only war we ever had was the time we ran out of Mr Kipling cakes.
-- Jimmy Perry (On claims of problems whilst filming Dad's Army)
There are now more TV's in British households than there are people - which is a
bit of a worry.
-- Prince Charles
You go to your TV to turn your brain off. You go to the computer when you want to
turn your brain on.
-- Steve Jobs
Television has raised writing to a new low.
-- Samuel Goldwyn
Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't
any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock |