If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
Erma BombeckTags: men television sports football
Do you know we are being led to
Slaughters by placid admirals
Tags: media corruption television control
If we were to do the Second Coming of Christ in color for a full hour, there would be a considerable number of stations which would decline to carry it on the grounds that a Western or a quiz show would be more profitable.
Edward R. MurrowTags: humor media news television popular-culture
We are in the same tent as the clowns and the freaks-that's show business.
Edward R. MurrowTags: entertainment media news television show-business
If you believe that your thoughts originate inside your brain, do you also believe that television shows are made inside your television set?
Warren EllisTags: thinking media television responsibility influence representations
An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.
Dan RatherTags: music scholarship television scholars elitism snobbery
Television characters live inside our minds as though they're actual people. In fact, we know more about them than we do about most people in our physical lives.
Neal PollackTags: television
Reading, for me, is like this: consumptive, pleasing, calming, as much as edifying. It's how I feel after a good dinner. That's why I do it so often: It feels wonderful. The book is mind and I insert myself into it, cover it entire, ear my way through every last slash and dot. That's something you can do with a book, unlike television or movies or the Internet. You can eat it, or mark it, like a dog does on a hydrant.
Tara Bray SmithTags: reading books writing read book television internet movies marginalia
I cannot tell you how many quiet mornings I have spent sitting around hotel rooms and furnished apartments in the United States and Mexico, smoking cigarettes, plunking the guitar, and watching Perry Mason--telling myself, "Well, at least I don't have a day job. And there is nothing wrong with that. I am not guilty of anything. Perry would see that in a minute.
Dave HickeyTags: television unemployment
Watching television is like taking black spray paint to your third eye.
Bill HicksTags: imagination television intuition
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