Television Quotes

"Harry [Shearer], Joel Siegel, and I used to be a little group for awhile, trying to do children's television, because it was the one area that nobody was paying attention to in those days..."

"We want the surprise to be transitive like the impatient thump which unexpectedly restores the picture to the television set, or the electric shock which sets the fibrillating heart back to its proper rhythm."

"Everybody who is watching television or is in the stands always thinks his shot is going down. We feel the same way. It's great to have him back and hitting great shots at the end."

"I have not heard anything officially. I learnt it from the television."

"After I did nine years of a television series, I didn't want to do anything really that involved going to a set and being in front of a camera for quite a while. And when I did start to want to do things, I wanted to focus more on film."

"He went on national television and apologized. He feels very contrite about it, and hopes to have [the case] resolved soon."

"When we sell television properties, ... we're already claiming all of California."

"When it's bad, it's bad. We did terrible. We allowed 42 points on national television. We were terrible."

"The game is on national television with a sellout crowd in our stadium and more than 50,000 at Yale. So we still have an opportunity to compete in a playoff-type atmosphere."

"The answers to life's problems aren't at the bottom of a bottle, they're on TV!"

"We have archeology on television, and I quite like it; it’s a sort of detective thing, but it’s really true, you know it’s there… But it’s kind of slow on telly, it has this problem of, “We’ve been here three weeks on live television, and we’ve taken off about a millimeter of top soil so far…” There’s men with brushes and beards… maybe they’ve just got beards, I’m not sure… “We found this and carbon-dated it to last Tuesday, so we’re very excited…”"

"[For me, this was great television. For the kid who wants to get to the majors, it's a $100 lesson. For Goren, it's the reason he made the hire. But what about the hitter in Atlanta or New York or Miami?] I don't think there's anything that Al describes in a broadcast that would give opposing batters an advantage against him, ... but if I were a young pitcher coming up, I'd take notes."

"Big-time sport on free over-the-air television is a wonderful product but, nevertheless, we're all facing the situation that the cost of the product is still an issue,"

"Television to brainwash us all and Internet to eliminate any last resistance."

"Mobile phones today are more like television when I was a kid,"

"I didn't read comics, didn't watch them on television. I was aware of the characters, probably ran around and pretended I was them."

"I wanted something that would be absorbing. I didn't want to fester in front of daytime television and feel bitter like Coriolanus."

"We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books."

"We talk a lot (via computer). I also watch him on television when I can."

"Television of course actually started in Britain in 1936, and it was a monopoly, and there was only one broadcaster and it operated on a license which is not the same as a government grant."