Television Quotes

“Authentic diverse storytelling in films, books, television is when a story is cast with the intended ethnicity of the characters and is written by the intended ethnicity. When you cast Black or Asian actors into a role written for another, and the book is written by another, then that isn't authentic. That's re-imagining. Vice versa. Authentic storytelling is when you cast Korean American actors in a film written by Korean Americans or Chinese Americans in a film/book written by Chinese Americans so the entire story from concept to release is authentic. Not when you take a book written by a Caucasian, directed by a Caucasian but cast by African American or Asian American actors into originally-written Caucasian character roles just because that is trending. THAT is not authentic but white-washing.”
― Kailin Gow

“The kind of men you see in the movies would be hard to handle in real life, though – they’re so fixated on their own masculinity. And sometimes that male pride, that proper behaviour, it all starts to seem ridiculous. If they could just get over themselves, then everything might be a whole lot simpler.”
― Izumi Suzuki, Terminal Boredom: Stories

“You see the whole culture (watching television) . . . Nazis, deodorant salesman, wrestlers . . . beauty contests, the talk show . . . Can you imagine the level of a mind that watches wrestling? Hmm? But the worst are the fundamentalist preachers . . . third-rate con men, telling the poor suckers that watch them that they speak for Jesus . . . and to please send in money. Money, money, money! If Jesus came back, and saw what’s going on in his name, he’d never stop throwing up.”
― Woody Allen, Hannah and Her Sisters

“She jackknifed on the couch, screaming so loud that it could be heard clear to Orlando. This was it. Her Dateline moment. A robbery gone wrong. Or was it?, questioned Keith Morrison.”
― Tessa Bailey, Fangirl Down

“Separating the art from the artist is hard to do when the art is so interconnected with who the artist is as a person.”
― Dominique Davis, Living Rent Free In My Head: Essays On Pop Culture

“Philo Taylor Farnsworth successfully demonstrated the first television on Sept. 7, 1927.
Since that time, conservatives have consumed countless hours of positive programming… and completely dismissed every second of it.”
― Bryan (Nyrhalahotep) Hardbarger

“My wife says books aren’t ‘real.’ ”
“Thank God for that. You can shut them, say, ‘Hold on a moment.’ You play
God to it. But who has ever torn himself from the claw that encloses you when
you drop a seed in a TV parlor? It grows you any shape it wishes! It is an
environment as real as the world. It becomes and is the truth. Books can be beaten
down with reason.”
― Ray Bradbury , Fahrenheit 451

“The Catholic faith gives such hope and solace to its followers as they seek salvation through a litany of shalts and shalt nots, but compassion for our fellows is a quality that requires little knowledge and is, I thin, the true redemption, after all.”
― Mary Tyler Moore, After All

“The Catholic faith gives such hope and solace to its followers as they seek salvation through a litany of shalts and shalt nots, but compassion for our fellows is a quality that requires little knowledge and is, I think, the true redemption, after all.”
― Mary Tyler Moore, After All

“As Jake the Dog from Adventure Time says: "Sucking at something is the first step to becoming sorta good at something.”
― Emilie Wapnick, How to Be Everything

“By the time Daisy Jones & The Six performed “Turn It Off” on Saturday Night Live, they were performing a song almost everyone in the country knew. It was the Record of the Year.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

“The world's a T.V.
and hang-ups
are commercials.”
― Jimi Hendrix, Cherokee Mist: The Lost Writings

“Betty White is the First Lady of Television in her own right. She inspired me to write among other artists.”
― Laika Constantino

“Harriet Nelson was my idol when I was growing up. She was everything I wanted to become-- a wife, a mother, and a homemaker. I watched The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet every week on television, reverently noting Harriet's clever way with her husband and sons, her calm demeanor, how she dressed up each day to stay at home taking care of her family. I loved how they worshipped her. And I coveted her apron.
My own mother was an amazing woman; long before it was the norm, she had a college degree, worked full time, and raised six children. She enjoyed her career and was successful at it, but as far as I was concerned, the job I wanted was Harriet's.”
― EllynAnne Geisel, The Apron Book: Making, Wearing, and Sharing a Bit of Cloth and Comfort

“I don't want Claud to tell the world how he feels about me. Television is so seductive: people tell things to the camera they'd never dream of telling their best friends”
― Nicci French, The Memory Game

“Unfettered spaces scare me. I’m not used to scenes that aren’t in a frame. Looking at a picture inside a border always calms me down, whether it’s an ultravista or the real thing. It’s probably from all the TV.”
― Izumi Suzuki, Terminal Boredom: Stories

“Fico na frente da televisão para aumentar o meu ódio. Quando minha cólera está diminuindo e eu perco a vontade de cobrar o que me devem eu sento na frente da televisão e em pouco tempo meu ódio volta.”
― Rubem Fonseca, O Cobrador

“Where Truth Lies by Stewart Stafford

My television lost picture,
Grew lips, told the truth,
Then it finished speaking,
My voice froze after that.

My elderly self turned,
In a white, shining chair,
Cutting my lips from me,
To let the truth ooze out.

The moon in three cups,
Providence's hinterland,
The old bait-and-switch,
Shows truth has no price.

© Stewart Stafford, 2022. All rights reserved.”
― Stewart Stafford

“Les aspirations accumulées de tout un pays, immergé depuis des décennies dans la sénescente torpeur communiste, convergeaient ici. Et au centre il n’y avait pas la culture, comme le croyaient les intellectuels convaincus d’hériter du sceptre et qui n’avaient rien hérité du tout. Au centre, il y avait la télévision.”
― Giuliano da Empoli, Le Mage du Kremlin

“...c’est nous qui, dans cette phase, avons reconstruit l’imaginaire collectif du pays. Toutes les autres institutions s’étant écroulées, c’était à la télévision d’indiquer le chemin.”
― Giuliano da Empoli, Le Mage du Kremlin

“I didn’t forget our anniversary, either.” He guided them, an arm around each, into the hall. They heard voices, eerie voices like a radio, and then Father threw open the living-room door and inside, all lighted up like a green cat’s eye, was a seventeen-inch television screen – and on the screen were dogs.”
― Regina J. Woody, Almena's Dogs

“The 'better angels of our nature' may be the ones we want leading us forward, but the worser angels are the ones that we seem to want to watch onscreen.”
― Bob Odenkirk, Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama

“Her voice switches from patient to peeved faster than a viewer can change channels.”
― Christina Estes, Off the Air

“Nearby, JJ is sucking up to someone she hopes can lead her out of the Sonoran Desert and into the Hollywood Hills.”
― Christina Estes, Off the Air

“TV news has taught me vigilance can make the difference between being safe and becoming a victim.”
― Christina Estes, Off the Air

“Have you seen our ratings, Jolene? It’s like we’re back in the nineties. People are watching local TV news again!”
― Christina Estes

“As 30 Rock’s Liz Lemon would say, ‘I want to go to there.”
― Lucy Mangan, Inside Charlie's Chocolate Factory: The Complete Story of Willy Wonka, the Golden Ticket, and Roald Dahl's Most Famous Creation.

“Man, I wish school could be like this. No tests. No grades. Everyone here because they want to be. The true adventure of learning.”
― Jody Houser, Stranger Things Science Camp #1 CVR B Lambert

“A combination of television and the stresses peculiar to two-income or single-parent families has swallowed up most of what used to be family time as well. Our kids have no time left to grow up fully human and only thin-soil wastelands to do it in.”
― John Taylor Gatto, Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling

“Whoever says TV isn't worthwhile isn't watching the right shows.”
― K.A. Applegate, The Journey