#television

If I'm home with no chore at hand, and a package of books has come, the television set and the chess board and the unanswered mail will have to manage without me if one of the books is a detective story. ↗

— Rex Stout

#books #chess #chore #come #detective

I'm afraid that this is me getting on my high horse now but we have yob television, yob newspapers, and funny enough whereas it was my mum and dad, school, police, church who used to set the standards, now it's tabloids and yob television who set the standards by which people live. ↗

— Gordon Strachan

#church #dad #enough #funny #getting

Again, one of the problems I have with television, as I mentioned before, is it's trivial in many ways, and I think that a lot of folks out there are looking for new metaphors and new ways of thinking about things. ↗

— J. Michael Straczynski

#again #before #folks #i #i think

I would love to explore film seeing as I have prominently been on television. It would be nice to change it up and focus on film a little bit. ↗

— Yvonne Strahovski

#been #bit #change #explore #film

Television and film are our libraries now. Our history books. ↗

— David Strathairn

#film #history #history books #libraries #now

I don't want to promote my own image either. I don't like going on television or mixing in literary circles. ↗

— Antonio Tabucchi

#either #going #i #image #like

Look at the declining television coverage. Look at the declining voting rate. Economics and economic news is what moves the country now, not politics. ↗

— Robert Teeter

#coverage #declining #economic #economics #look

So there was a constant flow and a thin line there between reality and television and yes, much of what I was experiencing in my real life was also what was going on in the television show to the extent that I had to take writers' advice and from the counselors around. ↗

— Alan Thicke

#also #around #between #constant #constant flow

Television probably has become the most evocative, widely observed signpost we have. ↗

— Robert Adams

#evocative #most #observed #probably #television

Serial killers are everywhere! Well, perhaps not in our neighborhood, but on our television screens, at the movie theatres, and in rows and rows of books at our local Borders or Barnes and Noble Booksellers. ↗

— Pat Brown

#books #booksellers #borders #everywhere #killers