#television

The young people look great on television. They're youthful and have a lot of zip and energy, but when you see them live, they can only do about 20 minutes because they haven't got the training to hold an audience for an hour and a half or so. ↗

— Tony Bennett

#audience #because #energy #got #great

Nobody seems to know yet how television is going to affect the radio, movies, love, housekeeping or the church, but it has definitely revived vaudeville. ↗

— Edgar Bergen

#church #definitely #going #housekeeping #how

I don't like seeing myself on television. I don't like it. ↗

— Yogi Berra

#like #myself #seeing #television

Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they're scraping the top of the barrel. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#desperately #hungry #material #now #scraping

Television is intensely personal. ↗

— Jessica Savitch

#personal #television

So I ask you: whose job is it in this country to wake up comatose parents? Someone better do it soon because knowing television's potential for harm and keeping that knowledge to ourselves instead of sharing it with parents amounts to covering up a land mine on a busy street. ↗

— Jim Trelease

#reading #television #business

As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#days #exception #perfect #president #progresses

Violence and smut are of course everywhere on the airwaves. You cannot turn on your television without seeing them, although sometimes you have to hunt around. ↗

— Dave Barry

#although #around #cannot #course #everywhere

I got my heroes secondhand, from television and movies, to a certain extent. ↗

— Brad Bird

#certain extent #extent #got #heroes #i

All I wanted to do was go back inside to the library and read a book.I used to spend all my time reading books, or watching television. It was safe. Nobody ever was hurt or teased or looked stupid while reading books or watching television. ↗

— Kathryn Magendie

#library #reading #tv #television