He was both [television's] first celebrity and its most persistent conscience.

Quote by Harry F Waters

Topics: Television Quotes

Television probably has become the most evocative, widely observed signpost we have.

Television probably has become the most evocative, widely observed signpost we have.

A book unlike a television program, moving picture or any other modern means of communication...

A book unlike a television program, moving picture or any other modern means of communication...

Thank God we're living in a country where the sky's the limit, the stores are...

Thank God we're living in a country where the sky's the limit, the stores are...

It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when...

It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when...

She ate a television journalist for breakfast and, feeling peckish, bit off some reporters' heads...

She ate a television journalist for breakfast and, feeling peckish, bit off some reporters' heads...

All television ever did was shrink the demand for ordinary movies. The demand for extraordinary...

All television ever did was shrink the demand for ordinary movies. The demand for extraordinary...

The closer you come to being yourself on the screen, the longer you last [because]...

The closer you come to being yourself on the screen, the longer you last [because]...

I might have had trouble saving France in 1946-I didn't have television then.

I might have had trouble saving France in 1946-I didn't have television then.

The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every...

The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every...

Television is Democracy at it's ugliest.

Television is Democracy at it's ugliest.

Some television programs are so much chewing gum for the eyes.

Some television programs are so much chewing gum for the eyes.

Television is a golden goose that lays scrambled eggs; and it is futile and probably...

Television is a golden goose that lays scrambled eggs; and it is futile and probably...

I can only imagine very stupid people looking at it (Television)

I can only imagine very stupid people looking at it (Television)

Television should be our Lyceum, our Chautauqua, our Minsky's and our Camelot.

Television should be our Lyceum, our Chautauqua, our Minsky's and our Camelot.

People who say you're just as old as you feel are all wrong, fortunately.

People who say you're just as old as you feel are all wrong, fortunately.

There is an insistent tendency among serious social scientists to think of any institution which...

There is an insistent tendency among serious social scientists to think of any institution which...

Television has brought back murder into the home - where it belongs.

Television has brought back murder into the home - where it belongs.

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.