Television Quotes

It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.

I stared at the television in shock, watching as my private life was revealed to the world.

Nothing could be recorded in those days except by aiming a movie camera at the television screen. It was at least another 10 years before they had any kind of recording medium.

I feel good about being able to take bluegrass on to television like 'Letterman' and 'The View,' and I've heard nice things about being able to do that. I really haven't felt any negativity toward me or my music.

Saudi Arabia has also changed. People today are connecting with each other all across the world through small gadgets and television. It's a different society.

I don't even own a television. I'm proud of that.

Television's very dependent on images. That's not what news is.

My belief is that what comes across on the television is a capture of my enthusiasm and my passion for wildlife.

Television has brought back murder into the home - where it belongs.

We don't care really about children as a society and television reflects that indifference to children as human beings.

Internet mailing lists are like Fox television shows. They have really cool previews, and they get you all excited about them, but they just don't live up to their promises.

We don't see the people who are doing real things getting enough props. We often see politicians who are everywhere but nowhere at the same goddamn time. You know the kind of person: You see them everywhere on television but nowhere in front of your face.

Late night television is ready for someone like me... standards have gone to an all-time low.

He who is created by television can be destroyed by television.

I messed around in high school, but I pretty much put it away until I did a television show in San Francisco.

You must not demand the failure of your peers, because the more good things that are around in film, in television, in theater - why the better it is for all of us.

Imitation is the sincerest form of television.

It's about the power of design and the power of the human spirit. It's above paying anybody to do something stupid for money like reality television does - like ambushing people.

I definitely think there was some overacting on the part of the customers and the wait staff. The people who came in during the shooting were clearly there to have a moment on television, and that's fine.

Television has a real problem. They have no page two.

A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station.

Because I've done a lot of television, I'm sort of a generalist. I'm not a pastry cook, but I've had to learn a certain amount about it. I'm not a baker, though I've had to learn how to do it. I'm sort of a general cook.

Television is a device that permits people who haven't anything to do to watch people who can't do anything.

It is truly a privilege to be able to support all women's causes on a global level. It is remarkable that something as simple as television can empower us to create change and awareness in the world.

I'm not going to name some of my colleagues who are very well-known for their television presentation, but they wouldn't know new information or how to report a story if it came up and bit them.

I personally don't have a problem with naked bodies on television.

I certainly grew up seeing more movies and television than I read books, but when it came time to do the thing itself you don't have to hire a lot of people to sit down and write a book, so that was the story-telling medium that was available to me.

The nightmare is you spend the rest of your life being funny at parties and then people say, 'Why didn't you do that when you were on television?'

Television has dried up for my generation, so it's plays and films.

Many of our own people here in this country do not ask about computers, telephones and television sets. They ask - when will we get a road to our village.