TV, Television 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.

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.

Chuck Palahniuk

Choke

human, people

problems, troubles, issues

life quotes

I find TV very educational. Every time someone switches it on I go into another room and read a good book.

Groucho Marx

reading

books, 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.

— 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!

Bridget Jones's Diary

— 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.

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...

Twelve Monkeys

Jeffrey Goines

modernity

— 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.

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.

Without TV, it's hard to tell when one day ends and the other begins.

— 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?!