television

Most of the animals that appeared on British television screens in1950 did so sitting on door-mats.

—Attenborough, Sir David Frederick

Life does not imitate art. It imitates bad television.

—Allen,Woody pseudonym of  Allen Stewart Konigsberg

The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube.

—Mailer, Norman Kingsley

Millions drew up before the international hearth of television.

—NewYorkTimes

It is largely on television and radio that real probing of what politicians are up to has to happen.

—Humphrys,John

Each daya few more lies eat into the seed with whichwe are born, little institutional lies from the print of newspapers, the shock waves of television, and the sentimental cheats of the movie screen.

—Mailer, Norman Kingsley

Fact is stranger than fiction.You see people walking down the street that would never be allowed on television.You have to tone it down.

—Gervais, Ricky

Let's face it, there are no plain women on television.

—Ford, Anna

Seldom is it given to one generation to have such an opportunity to rise again, but now before you is that opportunity in televisionöa larger, richer, broader opportunity than ever existed in radio.

—Sarnoff, David

I make no apology for preoccupying myself with architecture, television, conceptual art, restaurants and Jane Asher's cakes.

—Self,Will

While theoretically and technically television may be feasible, commerciallyand financially I consider it an impossibility, a development of which we need waste little time dreaming.

—De Forest, Lee

Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort oftheliving room.Vietnamwaslost inthe living rooms of America, not on the battlefields of Vietnam.

—McLuhan, (Herbert) Marshall

Television has brought back murder into the homeö where it belongs.

—Hitchcock, SirAlfred Joseph

Just as the camera draws a stake through the heart of serious portraiture, television has killed the novel of social reportage.

—Franzen,Jonathan

Television has made dictatorship impossible, but democracy unbearable.

—Perelman, S(ydney) J(oseph)

Television has spread the habit of instant reaction and has stimulated the hope of instant results.

—Schlesinger, Arthur M(eier),Jr

It's very nearly impossible to tell the truth in television.

—Muggeridge, Malcolm

Masturbation is the thinking man's television.

—Hampton, Christopher

American people don't believe anything until they see it on television.

—Nixon, Richard M(ilhous)

When television isgood, nothing isbetter.When it's bad, nothing is worse.

—Minow, Newton Norman