#television

Life is so fast these days, and we're exposed to so much information. Television makes us a witness to such misery. ↗

— Gates McFadden

#exposed #fast #information #life #makes

We are in the same tent as the clowns and the freaks-that's show business. ↗

— Edward R. Murrow

#media #news #show-business #television #business

Moderate giftedness has been made worthless by the printing press and radio and television and satellites and all that. A moderately gifted person who would have been a community treasure a thousand years ago has to give up, has to go into some other line of work, since modern communications put him or her into daily competition with nothing but the world's champions. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#community #competition #giftedness #modern #printing-press

...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.

#television #dreams

I've had the good fortune to have a much more diverse life than most people would, professional sports and television and news and movies. ↗

— Ted Turner

#fortune #good #good fortune #had #i

I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#chance #i #miss #never #sex

Most people gaze neither into the past nor the future; they explore neither truth nor lies. They gaze at the television. ↗

— Radiohead

#life #radiohead #television #truth #life

Good film, television, or music keeps you awake, anxious for the next movement or act, and wanting more when it is finished. ↗

— John Grooters

#music #television #wanting #music

I call it guerilla TV. ↗

— Marsha Bemko Producer of Antiques Roadshow

#collecting #killer-stuff-and-tons-of-money #reality-television #money

To the rational mind, nothing is inexplicable; only unexplained. ↗

— Doctor Who

#sci-fi #television-quotes #sci-fi