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Letter "T" » Television
«The most important thing about a TV set is to get it back against something and not out in the middle of a room where it's like a somber fellow making electronic judgments on you.»
«The television industry doesn't like to see the compexity of the world. It prefers simple reporting, with simple ideas: this is white, that's black; this is good, that's bad.»
«Today's audience knows more about what's on television than what's in life.»
Author: Larry Gelbart
(Actor, Producer, Writer)
| About:
Television
| Keywords:
audience, television
«Time has convinced me of one thing: Television is for appearing on - not for looking at»
«The first thing a television viewer realizes when watching a golf tournament is how the sport tends to make one inclined to whisper and avoid sudden movements, such as walking to the refrigerator [during] a possible birdie putt.»
Author: Peter Alfano
| About:
Television
| Keywords:
birdie, birdied, inclined, Movements, putt, realizes, refrigerator, refrigerators, tends, tends to, tournament, tournaments, viewer, viewers, whisper
«The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle.»
Author: Stanley Kubrick
(Film Director, Writer)
| About:
Emotion,
Magic,
Television
| Keywords:
art form, conveys, medium, moods, retain, screen, tackle, tackled, tackles, tackling, the screen
«The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little.»
Author: Ray Bradbury
| About:
Television
| Keywords:
after all, a billion, beast, billion, every night, fixedly, freezes, gave, insidious, promised, sang, siren, Sirens, staring, stone, television
«The nuclear generator of brain sludge is television.»
«The news automatically becomes the real world for the TV user and is not a substitute for reality, but is itself an immediate reality.»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
| About:
Reality,
Television
| Keywords:
automatically, immediate, real world, The News, The Real World, TV news
«The novel can't compete with cars, the movies, television, and liquor. A guy who's had a good feed and tanked up on good wine gives his old lady a kiss after supper and his day is over. Finished.»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(Essayist, Historian)
| About:
Television
| Keywords:
cars, supper, tanked, tank car
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