All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching?

 —Nicholas Johnson

If you read a lot of books, you’re considered well-read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you’re not considered well-viewed.

 —Lily Tomlin

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

Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.

 —Ann Landers

Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they’re scraping the top of the barrel.

—Gore Vidal

Television hangs on the questionable theory that whatever happens anywhere should be sensed everywhere. If everyone is going to be able to see everything, in the long run all sights may lose whatever rarity value they once possessed, and it may well turn out that people, being able to see and hear practically everything, will be specially interested in almost nothing.

 —E.B. White

Whenever it’s on it’s like having somebody in my house that I want to get rid of and they won’t leave. I hate the sound of it. All that noise and light coming from a piece of furniture.

 —John Waters

There are days when any electrical appliance in the house, including the vacuum cleaner, seems to offer more entertainment possibilities than the TV set.

 —Harriet van Horne

In Beverley Hills, they don’t throw their garbage away — they make it into television shows.

 —Woody Allen

Seeing a murder on television... can help work off one’s antagonisms. And if you haven’t any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.

— Alfred Hitchcock