#vision

Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing. ↗

— Robert Bresson

#hearing #inattention #listen #look #magazines

Of whatsoever number a fleet of ships of war is composed, it is usually divided into three squadrons; and these, if numerous, are again separated into divisions. ↗

— William Falconer

#composed #divided #divisions #fleet #into

I really felt it was time for a new vision. ↗

— Karen Kain

#i #new #really #time #vision

My belief, for what it is worth, is that city dwellers cannot understand the world. Insulated from reality by complex and expert systems of provision and police, baffled by fashion and spectacle, city dwellers can distinguish neither the sources of their existence nor the consequences. ↗

— James Buchan

#belief #cannot #city #complex #consequences

You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilization from barbarism. I tell you the division is a thread, a sheet of glass. A touch here, a push there, and you bring back the reign of Saturn. ↗

— John Buchan

#barbarism #bring #civilization #division #earth

Every time you think television has hit its lowest ebb, a new program comes along to make you wonder where you thought the ebb was. ↗

— Art Buchwald

#comes #ebb #every #every time #hit

I have also just finished three weeks on a soap opera in England. The soap opera is a rather famous one called Crossroads. It was first on television 25 years ago, and it has recently been brought back. I play the part of a businessman called David Wheeler. ↗

— Jeremy Bulloch

#also #back #been #brought #businessman

If you want good sketches, go pick up Sid Caesar. The best of Your Show of Shows. That's the greatest sketch comedy you'll ever see on television. ↗

— Jamie Farr

#caesar #comedy #ever #go #good

The mass media in the days of newspapers and television it's hard to be able to find a story that's about just what you're interested in at the time you're interested in it. ↗

— Guy Burgess

#about #days #find #hard #interested

I honestly think that in five years time, television will be watched on computer screens anyway and you'll be doing multiple things. You'll be 'IMing' while you're watching a show and checking the news. ↗

— Mark Burnett

#checking #computer #doing #five #honestly