Quotes and sayings about Television

All television is educational television.  The question is:  what is it teaching?  ~Nicholas Johnson

Monday, November 22, 2010

All television is educational television.  The question is:  what is it teaching?  ~Nicholas Johnson

Sex on television can’t hurt you unless you fall off.  ~Author Unknown

Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.  ~Ann Landers

I find television to be very educating.  Every time somebody turns on the set, I go in the other room and read a book.  ~Groucho Marx

If you came and you found a strange man... teaching your kids to punch each other, or trying to sell them all kinds of products, you’d kick him right out of the house, but here you are; you come in and the TV is on, and you don’t think twice about it.  ~Jerome Singer

Today, watching television often means fighting, violence and foul language - and that’s just deciding who gets to hold the remote control.  ~Donna Gephart


Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn’t have in your home.  ~David Ford

The smallest bookstore still contains more ideas of worth than have been presented in the entire history of television.  ~Andrew Ross

I could have been a doctor, but there were too many good shows on TV.  ~Jason Love

I have had my television aerials removed.  It is the moral equivalent of a prostate operation.  ~Malcolm Muggeridge

If you read a lot of books, you’re considered well-read.  But if you watch a lot of TV, you’re not considered well-viewed.  ~Lily Tomlin

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