How many hours a week are you wasting in front of a TV? Here is a collection of proverbs and quotes about television.
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All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching?Nicholas Johnson
Do you want zillions off your state taxes even at the risk of crippling education?Bill Bryson
'Oh, yes!' the people cry.
Do you want TV that would make an imbecile weep?
'Yes, please!'
Shall we indulge ourselves with the greatest orgy of consumer spending that the world has ever known?
'Sounds neat! Let's go for it!'
Source: Lost Continent
He who controls the remote, controls the world.Julie Garwood
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 got thirteen channels of shit on the T.V. to choose from.Pink Floyd
Source: Lyrics: Nobody Home
I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.Orson Welles
If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.John Lennon
If it weren't for electricity, we'd all be watching television by candlelight.George Gobel
It rots the sense in the head!Roald Dahl
It kills imagination dead!
It clogs and clutters up the mind!
It makes a child so dull and blind
he can no longer understand
a fantasy, a fairyland!
His brain becomes as soft as cheese!
His powers of thinking rust and freeze!
He cannot think--he only sees!
Source: Poem: Television
People are sheep. TV is the shepherd.Jess C. Scott
Television is chewing gum for the eyes.Frank Lloyd Wright
Television may insult your intelligence, but nothing rubs it in like a computer(unknown author)
The nuclear generator of brain sludge is television.Dave Barry
The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little.Ray Bradbury
