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I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

Groucho Marx

Stichwörter: humor reading books television

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.

John Lennon

Stichwörter: society activism peace beatles television materialism

So please, oh please, we beg, we pray,
Go throw your TV set away,
And in its place you can install
A lovely bookshelf on the wall.
Then fill the shelves with lots of books.

Roald Dahl

Stichwörter: humor books television

It's been suggested that if the super-naturalists really had the powers they claim, they'd win the lottery every week. I prefer to point out that they could also win a Nobel Prize for discovering fundamental physical forces hitherto unknown to science. Either way, why are they wasting their talents doing party turns on television?

By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.

Richard Dawkins

Stichwörter: science atheism television good-advice nobel-prize open-minded suggestion

Every day's a negotiation and sometimes it's done with guns.

Joss Whedon

Stichwörter: humour television show-business

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

Stichwörter: murder media television advertisement

...and he just sat back and stared at the tube, almost interested in what was happening, trying to find the ability to believe in that lie so he could believe the one within.

Hubert Selby Jr.

Stichwörter: denial television

Anyone who watches even the slightest amount of TV is familiar with the scene: An agent knocks on the door of some seemingly ordinary home or office. The door opens, and the person holding the knob is asked to identify himself. The agent then says, "I'm going to ask you to come with me.

David Sedaris

Stichwörter: television police tv

There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room. It is even stranger than a man talking to himself or a woman standing dreaming at her stove. It is as if another planet is communicating with you. Suddenly the TV reveals itself for what it really is; a video of another world, ultimately addressed to no one at all, delivering its own message.

Jean Baudrillard

Stichwörter: life television