Television Quotes (1545 Quotes)

I was one of the first generations to watch television. TV exposes people to news, to information, to knowledge, to entertainment. How is it bad?

Local television news, on both radio and television, is so appalling. Makes print journalism look like the greatest stuff ever written.

Baseball is a great game to watch and have a conversation with when you're sitting in the ballpark or enjoying it on television. When you come home from a long day at the office, seeing things a little quicker is more desirable.

Oprah Winfrey is a prolific force in our culture whose unprecedented achievements in television, film, publishing and philanthropy will bring an amazing radio experience to the XM nation of subscribers. We are proud to welcome Oprah and her talented team to the XM family.

Our biggest competition in achieving our ambitions, ... is a television set.

It is a different genre - a show about something other than doctors, lawyers and cops. Teachers are something completely different. I think it makes for very interesting television.

I don't really get a chance to watch much television. I mostly watch BBC Worldwide and repeats of Seinfeld and Everybody Loves Raymond.

In defense of replay, I watched it on television and saw a number of different examples of why it worked out, ... It just is not as much fun in the game. You stop and hang around and chat for a while. There is some good and bad to it. I have always liked the rhythm of it the game and I don't like it being shifted.

Right now we're getting the word out through the radio stations and of course we're sending an advisory to the television stations as well because all the 249 and 868 prefixes are affected. That basically covers Wrightwood, Phelan and Pinion Hills. Cell phones are also affected.

As I went to college, I went into radio and television. Now I suppose most people think that's one step ahead of basket weaving as a major in college, but it was part of the journalism department.

We're at the point in the business where on any given night about half of the audience isn't watching broadcast network television. It's not about fighting each other, it's about bringing back that audience with great programming.

It is NRL policy that the referee cannot request replays of foul play from the television director.

But of course when people watch morning television, Terry, it's a very different animal. You know, they're running around, they're getting their kids ready for school, they're probably doing eight million things, they're brushing their teeth.

Viewers can be both entertained and educated by stories on television that reflect the diversity of families and communities across this country. Images on television and in film have the power to help Americans embrace their lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender family members, friends and neighbors with understanding and acceptance.

I do love television. But the business is accelerating and people are not getting the chance to fail.

Mark down the date. Today is the beginning of the end of the television schedule.

I was obligated to do a bunch of concerts and a television show, but something in my stomach was telling me this wasn't what I wanted to do.

I don't think that Yahoo or any other Internet company should try to become a television network. We will be nowhere if we have to create our own content.

Our job is to put on the best possible service and make it available through cable to fans. We don't want to leverage fans into doing our work for us. The flip side to the pawn argument ... is if it wasn't for ESPNU, this game wouldn't be on television.

I like to stay home and watch television. The Game Show channel, mostly.

It really affirms what the Parents Television Council has been saying a long time There's too much graphic sex on television when kids are watching. Children are getting a lot of bad information without a discussion of consequences and health risks.

Mozart's job classification was to write music, which he did for ballets and operas. He got paid to do that, and taught on the side. He wasn't a waiter. He didn't sell mutual funds. Those are all noble professions, but if you want to be a professional composer, then you're writing dramatic music for film and television.

Life is so fast these days, and we're exposed to so much information. Television makes us a witness to such misery.

I was a witch with my children, truly, about television. I used to say you can watch a half hour of television a day.

With IDT Entertainment and Industry bringing such high-end talent, we're very excited about this anthology. We've been trying to put together this kind of series because it has great potential to become appointment television.

In the age of television, image becomes more important than substance.

We all know in the television business it's getting fragmented and harder to be heard among the voices out there.

The writers led by Mike Scully are fantastic. And they're creating original stories that not only don't repeat what we've already done, they also don't repeat anything I've seen on television.

People are not in a good mood when any politician's face appears on television.

We are proud to have had the opportunity to bring television viewers one of the most acclaimed series in television history. From the venerable, moving performances by the first-rate cast to the sterling creative team behind the camera, this series has left an indelible imprint on the landscape of television drama.

In order for us to even consider a park there, we need to be sure we have access to television,

There's no doubt it would help from the perspective of a player looking at Monmouth. You also get a tremendous amount of publicity, to have Miles' name called and see the Monmouth name on television in front of however many viewers, and have people talkin

Multimedia is its own entity. It takes the best out of documentary radio and the best out of documentary photography. Television doesn't have the time to tell a long narrative. Newspapers don't have space anymore to run 60-inch stories, or more than one or two photos with a story. Flash allows us to bring all that back together and tell a story with more depth than in any other medium.

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.

I've been singing since I was 5 years old. Not in-the-church-thing kind of way. I always made up music. Since I was a little girl. Improvisation was with me from the beginning. It drove my parents crazy. I would sing all the time. To anything. Television show themes. I loved to imitate the sounds.

It was doing very well; it was doing particularly well outside of England. It was a very big seller for Carlton Television. But it was getting more and more expensive to do.

He who is created by television can be destroyed by television.

It requires us to use some of the tactics they use. We're always looking for new angles billboards, buses, television to reach kids and young adults.

There are a lot of things that parents can do to help teens get better sleep. One is to get rid of the computer, get rid of the Internet, get rid of the television. It's important to get those things out of the bedroom, as well as telling kids not to drink caffeine after 12 noon. It's also important to keep a regular schedule on weekdays and weekends, allowing for at least 9 hours in bed at night.

Baseball hasn't been the national pastime for many years now - no sport is. The national pastime, like it or not, is watching television.

She knows how to do live television. She would be the one doing the nine-hour stints in the anchor chair, and doing morning television prepares you for that.

We'll meet a Wonder Woman who is similar to the one from the original comics and from the TV series to an extent. Neither of them are really a template. I've never loved the comics and I didn't watch the television series, but I loved the character very much.

To be on television and have my nieces and nephews see me, and seeing them wear my shirt to the games and be proud, it's so sweet. Sometimes it feels like it's just a dream.

It's been this wonderful kind of unifying factor, ... They're just really proud to represent their towns on television.

I worked on my elbow and I learned how to play poker. That was all I did. I didn't want to watch games on television because it was too painful. I missed pitching.

We decided we didn't want to do a musical for TV because the idea of writing a musical that would be seen on television once seems insane.

It seemed as though prior to all of the consolidation of the networks and everything, it was easier to get an individual voice heard on television, and that voice would be nurtured, ... Now it seems as though there is a formula that has to be followed, and I think the audience suffers.

We still have a tradition certainly in English television; it's faded a bit in the last five years, but we still have a tradition where the important thing is the quality and the challenging nature of the programming.

This is one minute, an eternity in television, in which we're walking an 8- to 12-year-old audience through how to use a cancer stick socially. It's called product placement, where products are written into story lines of TV shows.

I don't have anything from the television series. I treasure the videotapes from Columbia House.