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Al Boliska
Do you realize if it weren't for Edison we'd be watching TV by candlelight?
Alan Kay
Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general's warning.
Alfred Hitchcock
Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.
Alfred Hitchcock
Seeing a murder on television... can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
Alistair Cooke
When television came roaring in after the war (World War II) they did a little school survey asking children which they preferred and why - television or radio. And there was this 7-year-old boy who said he preferred radio "because the pictures were better."
Andrew Ross
The smallest bookstore still contains more ideas of worth than have been presented in the entire history of television.
Ann Landers
Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.
Art Buchwald, "Adding Insult to Injury," Have I Ever Lied to You?, 1966
Every time you think television has hit its lowest ebb, a new type program comes along to make you wonder where you thought the ebb was.
Author Unknown
I wish there were a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence. There's a knob called "brightness," but that doesn't work.
Author Unknown
Sex on television can't hurt you unless you fall off.
Author Unknown
Television has changed a child from an irresistible force to an immovable object.
Author Unknown
TV. If kids are entertained by two letters, imagine the fun they'll have with twenty-six. Open your child's imagination. Open a book.
Author Unknown
Theatre is life. Cinema is art. Television is furniture.
Author Unknown
The same media people that claim violence on TV doesn't influence people, are perfectly willing to sell you advertising time.
Author Unknown, from New York Times, 1939
TV will never be a serious competitor for radio because people must sit and keep their eyes glued on a screen; the average American family hasn't time for it.
C. L. Gray
The Television commercial is the most efficient power-packed capsule of education that appears anywhere on TV.
C.p. Scott
Television? The word is half Latin and half Greek. No good can come of it.
Daniel Marsh
If the television craze continues with the present level of programs, we are destined to have a nation of morons.
Dave Barry
Another possible source of guidance for teenagers is television, but television's message has always been that the need for truth, wisdom and world peace pales by comparison with the need for a toothpaste that offers whiter teeth and fresher breath.
Dave Barry
If you surveyed a hundred typical middle-aged Americans, I bet you'd find that only two of them could tell you their blood types, but every last one of them would know the theme song from The Beverly Hillbillies.
 
 
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