— No, no, no! Course he's not the boy's father. Look at turn-ups on his jeans! — I knew it was dangerous. Getting you into crap telly. Sherlock is sitting in front of the screen Copy quote Share Report a mistake Sherlock Season 1 Episode 3 Sherlock HolmesDr. WatsonFunny Quotes
Most of the laugh tracks on television were recorded in the early 1950s. These days, most of the people you hear laughing are dead. Copy quote Share Report a mistake 13 comments Chuck PalahniukLullabyDeathLaughLife Quotes
Annie: It's so clean out here. Alvie: Because they don't throw garbage away. They make it into TV shows. Copy quote Share Report a mistake 1 comment Annie HallAnnie HallAlvy SingerGarbage, TrashLos AngelesHollywood
I was just glad to watch TV and, for once, not be in a world of crap. Copy quote Share Report a mistake 7 comments Scrubs Season 5 Episode 14 J.D.
— My dad says the TV kills your brain cells. — Your dad doesn't know anything. We watch TV, like, every day. — I rest my case. Copy quote Share Report a mistake 6 comments Bridge to TerabithiaLeslie BurkeScott HoagerSarcastic Quotes
When you’re young, you look at television and think, there’s a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that’s not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want. That’s a far more depressing thought. Conspiracy is optimistic! You can shoot the bastards! We can have a revolution! But the networks are really in business to give people what they want. It’s the truth.Show full quote Copy quote Share Report a mistake 3 comments Steve Jobs
Then she turns on the television, some soap opera, you know, real people pretending to be fake people with made-up problems being watched by real people to forget their real problems. Copy quote Share Report a mistake Chuck PalahniukChokeHuman, PeopleProblems, Troubles, IssuesLife Quotes
I find TV very educational. Every time someone switches it on I go into another room and read a good book. Copy quote Share Report a mistake 1 comment Groucho MarxReadingBooks, Literature
No one wants to admit we're addicted to music. That's just not possible. No one's addicted to music and television and radio. We just need more of it, more channels, a larger screen, more volume. We can't bear to be without it, but no, nobody's addicted. Copy quote Share Report a mistake 1 comment Chuck PalahniukLullabyAddictionRadioMusicSoundsModernityLife Quotes
— Why do you want to work in television? — Because I'm passionately commited to communicating with children. They are the future. — Do you have any children of your own? — Oh, Christ, no. Yuck! Copy quote Share Report a mistake Bridget Jones's DiaryBridget JonesChildrenWorkIronic Quotes
— Let's watch old movies all night... we'll just veg out in front of the TV. — Veg out? — Yeah. Be still like vegetables. Lay like broccoli. Copy quote Share Report a mistake Pretty WomanVivian WardEdward LewisIdleness
There's the television. It's all right there — all right there. Look, listen, kneel, pray. Commercials! We're not productive anymore. We don't make things anymore. It's all automated. What are we for then? We're consumers. Yeah. Okay, okay. Buy a lot of stuff, you're a good citizen. But if you don't buy a lot of stuff, if you don't, what are you then, I ask you? What? Mentally ill. Fact, Jim, fact — if you don't buy things: toilet paper, new cars, computerized yo-yos, electrically-operated sexual devices, stereo systems with brain-implanted headphones, screwdrivers with miniature built-in radar devices, voice-activated computers...Show full quote Copy quote Share Report a mistake 1 comment Twelve MonkeysJeffrey GoinesModernity
— There was this really hot teller at the bank. And she didn't ask me to do it with her in the vault. — Same thing happened to me. Pizza delivery girl comes over, gives me the pizza and leaves! — No "Nice apartment, bet the bedrooms are huge"? — Nothing! — You know what? We have to turn off the porn. Copy quote Share Report a mistake Friends Season 4 Episode 17 Joey TribbianiChandler BingPornographyFunny Quotes
On television, a man shouted “Te amo... Te amo...” again and again to a dark-haired girl with brown eyes and feathery long eyelashes while he kicked her down a flight of stairs. Copy quote Share Report a mistake Chuck PalahniukDiaryMistyDeathLove
Without TV, it's hard to tell when one day ends and the other begins. Copy quote Share Report a mistake 4 comments The Simpsons Season 11 Episode 15 Homer SimpsonIronic Quotes
— Bill, you've been running the Maid of the Mist for 23 years now. Tell me. Why do you think I didn't get the anchor job? — Hey, man. I don't want problems. — Is it my hair, Bill? Are my teeth not white enough? Or like the great falls, is the bedrock of my life eroding beneath me?! Copy quote Share Report a mistake Bruce AlmightyBruce NolanBillLifeFunny Quotes