TV Land Creativity: Classic Television with Inspirational Memories & Quotations

 

The Lighter Side of Television
 

 

 The Lighter Side of Television

 
Television has raised writing to a new low.
- Samuel Goldwyn
 
 
Television is simply automated daydreaming.
- Lee Loevinger
 
 
Television is the triumph of machine over people.
- Fred Allen
 
 
Television has a real problem. They have no page two.
- Art Buchwald
 
 
Television is a medium because anything well done is rare.
- Fred Allen
 
 
Television? The word is half Greek, half Latin. No good can come of it.
- C. P. Scott
 
 
Television is something the Russians invented to destroy American education.
- Paul Erdos
 
 
Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.
- Ann Landers
 
 
Television is the most perfect democracy. You sit there with your remote control and vote.
- Aaron Brown
 
 
Television enables you to be entertained in your home by people you wouldn't have in your home.
- David Frost
 
 
Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
- Fred Allen
 
 
Books -- what they make a movie out of for television.
- Leonard Levinson
 
 
If vaudeville had died, television was the box they put it in.
- Larry Gelbart
 
 
Getting an award from TV is like getting kissed by someone with bad breath.
- Mason Williams
 
 
If it weren't for electricity, we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
- George Gobel
 
 
I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.
- Orson Welles
 
 
Anyone who likes golf on television would enjoy watching the grass grow on the greens.
- Andy Rooney
 
 
In Beverly Hills. . . they don't throw their garbage away. They make it into television shows.
- Woody Allen
 
 
If it weren't for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of the television, we'd still be eating frozen radio dinners.
- Johnny Carson
 
 
I find television very educational.  Every time someone switches it on I go into another room and read a good book.
- Groucho Marx
 
 
Every time you think television has hit its lowest ebb, a new . . . program comes along to make you wonder where you thought the ebb was.
- Art Buchwald