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One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.

– Kurt Vonnegut, "Cold Turkey", In These Times, May 10, 2004

Television news is like a lightning flash. It makes a loud noise, lights up everything around it, leaves everything else in darkness and then is suddenly gone.

– Hodding Carter

The television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home.

– David Frost

A book ... unlike a television program, moving picture or any other 'modern means of communication' ... can wait for years, yet be available at any moment when it happens to be needed.

– Joseph Wood Krutch

A computer terminal is not some clunky old television with a typewriter in front of it. It is an interface where the mind and body can connect with the universe and move bits of it about. (from Mostly Harmless)

– Douglas Noel Adams

All television is children's television.

– Richard P. Adler

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

Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into war, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves, engage in child labor, exchange information ceaselessly. They do everything but watch television.

– Lewis Thomas

Even if tomorrow will be the end of the world, people will still continue to watch television for whole day!

– Mehmet Murat ildan

Everyone has a purpose in life. Perhaps yours is watching television.

– David Letterman

Gabriel Have you ever heard of Harry Houdini Well he wasn't like today's magicians who are only interested in television ratings. He was an artist. He could make an elephant disappear in the middle of a theater filled with people, and do you know how he did that Misdirection.

– Swordfish

I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.

– Dwight D Eisenhower

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

– Groucho Marx

I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.

– Groucho Marx

I find women with well developed flesh very attractive. The scrawny little things doing commercials on my television set are slightly repulsive -- like famine victims.

– Dana Hatch

I hate television. I hate it as much as I hate peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.

– Orson Welles

I think that parents only get so offended by television because they rely on it as a babysitter and the sole educator of their kids.

– Trey and Matt Stone Parker

If it weren't for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we'd still be eating frozen radio dinners.

– Johnny Carson

If there's anything unsettling to the stomach, it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives.

– Marlon Brando

Imitation is the sincerest form of television.

– Fred Allen

It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.

– Rod Serling

Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them. Now we face the question whether a still higher 'standard of living' is worth its cost in things natural, wild and free. For us of the minority, the opportunity to see geese is more important that television.

– Aldo Leopold

Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.

– Rita Mae Brown

My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.

– Peter De Vries

One of the few good things about modern times If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.

– Kurt Vonnegut

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