#television

Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want. ↗

— Clive Barnes

#culture #democratic #entirely #everybody #first

Have you ever seen a candidate talking to a rich person on television? ↗

— Art Buchwald

#ever #person #rich #rich person #seen

Every show on television has a downward trend because there are so many more things to watch. You can only deal with what is the benchmark of a hit series and 'Survivor' clearly remains a hit series. ↗

— Mark Burnett

#benchmark #clearly #deal #downward #every

It's about avoiding reality through various escape routes that become addictions and lead to Hell. My character is addicted to television, chocolate, coffee, to her dream of her son, which has no basis in reality. ↗

— Ellen Burstyn

#addicted #addictions #avoiding #basis #become

Television news is like a lightning flash. It makes a loud noise, lights up everything around it, leaves everything else in darkness and then is suddenly gone. ↗

— Hodding Carter

#darkness #else #everything #flash #gone

Television is more interesting than people. If it were not we should have people standing in the corner of our room. ↗

— Alan Coren

#interesting #more #our #people #room

Somehow, by just continually pestering the general public by appearing on television, they accepted me and wanted more. ↗

— Chris Elliott

#appearing #continually #general #general public #just

If you believe that your thoughts originate inside your brain, do you also believe that television shows are made inside your television set? ↗

— Warren Ellis

#believe #brain #inside #made #originate

We don't have access to a national forum that we had in those days, through the news magazines which were the television news of the time. It's very disturbing to me that we've sort of been pushed to the corners. ↗

— Carlisle Floyd

#been #corners #days #disturbing #forum

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. ↗

— Genevieve Gorder

#above #anybody #design #does #human