Doc didn’t have a television but he could predict that sort of thing. He just didn’t need one. He could always tell what was on TV when he heard more than two people in a row say the same strange phrase in the same way. He knew that they had just seen it on television. A few weeks later everyone would have those words written on their chests.
Sarah SchulmanTags: television
It is extremely difficult to do anything constructive, let alone deep, on daily commercial television, especially on a talk show.
Dennis PragerTags: television
With television, we vault ourselves into a continuous, incoherent present.
Neil PostmanTags: media television context
The value in my room is neither my Television nor my bank note. The value in my room is myself! Why? Because even if I lose everything I have, but still get me, I am coming back with full passion and desperation to climb the unclimbed hills again and again!
Israelmore AyivorTags: success passion values television treasure value room desperate accomplishments bank-note deperation valuables
Good film, television, or music keeps you awake, anxious for the next movement or act, and wanting more when it is finished.
John GrootersTags: music television film wanting
There are many stories and accounts about the winners of lotteries who
are jubilant when they win, but whose lives descend into a nightmare
after acquiring that unearned money. (No challenge, no skill.) Thelottery looks like "the answer" to people because they associate money
with pleasure. But the true enjoyment of money comes in part from the
earning of it, which involves skill and challenge.
Watching television is usually done for pleasure. That's why so few
people can remember (or make use of) any of the 30 hours of television
they have watched in the past week.
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In a very real way, television is the new mythos. It defines the world, reinterprets it. The seasons do not change because Persephone goes underground. They change because new episodes air, because sweeps week demands conflagrations and ritual deaths. The television series rises slowly, arcs, descends into hiatus, and rises again with the bright, burning autumn.
Catherynne M. ValenteTags: television doctor-who
It's nice to watch television but it's even nicer when you've got a drink in your hand,' Gregory Ratcliffe, a Birmingham shopkeeper, told Reynolds News. 'Makes it more intimate somehow. Gives you the feeling that you're in a posh cabaret.
David KynastonTags: home drinking television aspiration britain fifties
The television is 'real'. It is immediate, it has dimension. It tells you what to think and blasts it in. It must be right. It seems so right. It rushes you on so quickly to its own conclusions your mind hasn't time to protest, 'What nonsense!'.
Ray BradburyTags: media television manipulation conformism
rip the prisons
open
put the
convicts
on
television
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