Top Television Quotes

  • A fish tank is just interactive television for cats. – Oliver Gaspirtz

    A fish tank is just interactive television for cats.– Oliver Gaspirtz

  • And yet that’s the best way to watch television actively: with your eyes closed. – JeanPhilippe Toussaint

    And yet that’s the best way to watch television actively: with your eyes closed.– JeanPhilippe Toussaint

  • The sky above the island was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel-”which is to say it was a bright, cheery blue. – Robert J Sawyer

    The sky above the island was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel-”which is to say it was a bright, cheery blue.– Robert J Sawyer

  • The real point of watching television is to forget that you have a brain. – Elizabeth Jane Howard

    The real point of watching television is to forget that you have a brain.– Elizabeth Jane Howard

  • The boy I used to know as Thomas Merker has been erased–replaced with a personality programmed by television and commercials to act a certain way. – Brian James

    The boy I used to know as Thomas Merker has been erased–replaced with a personality programmed by television and commercials to act a certain way.– Brian James

  • Lost, so small amid that dark, hands grown cold, body image fading down corridors of television sky. – William Gibson

    Lost, so small amid that dark, hands grown cold, body image fading down corridors of television sky.– William Gibson

  • 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 Hitch

    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 Hitch

  • 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 knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things.– Jean Baudrillard

  • To speak of television as ‘neutral’ and therefore subject to change is as absurd as speaking of the reform of a technology such as guns. – Jerry Mander

    To speak of television as ‘neutral’ and therefore subject to change is as absurd as speaking of the reform of a technology such as guns.– Jerry Mander

  • In America, Fredericka, they don’t really have trains for people. The trains here are used mainly to transport pigs, television sets, and fruit. – Mark Helprin

    In America, Fredericka, they don’t really have trains for people. The trains here are used mainly to transport pigs, television sets, and fruit.– Mark Helprin