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Television Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut
- Moderate giftedness has been made worthless by the printing press and radio and television and satellites and all that. A moderately gifted person who would…
- Where men had once howled and hacked at one another, and fought nip-and-tuck with nature as well, the machines hummed and whirred and clicked, and…
- One [television] program was an interminable exploration of the question: can a woman with a low I.Q. be happily married to a man with a…
- Future generations will look back on TV as the lead in the water pipes that slowly drove the Romans mad.
- One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have…
- Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a…
- Much of the conversation in the country consisted of lines from television shows, both past and present.
- The Great Depression was going on, so that the station and the streets teemed with homeless people, just as they do today. The newspapers were…
- all that has changed, in my opinion, is that, thanks to television, we can hide a great depression. we may even be hiding a third…
More Television Quotes
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- The ability of a television series to make adjustments is something you've got to take advantage of. — J. J. Abrams
- You know, it is a terrible thing to appear on television, because people think that you actually know what you're talking about. — David Attenborough
- I had a huge advantage when I started 50 years ago - my job was secure. I didn't have to promote myself.… — David Attenborough
- Television of course actually started in Britain in 1936, and it was a monopoly, and there was only one broadcaster and it… — David Attenborough
- I spent much of my childhood in northern Quebec, and often there was no radio, no television - there wasn't a lot… — Margaret Atwood
- I love soap operas - the stories, the plots! And I love the game shows and the courtroom dramas and the detectives… — Peter Ackroyd
- A man can do a television interview and roll out of bed 15 minutes before; it's just not the same for a… — Michele Bachmann
- The early commentators who put down the pre-presidential Roosevelt as an empty-headed young lightweight, all ambition and no talent, now seem comically… — Russell Baker
- I'm used to American actors who have a movie career thinking television acting is beneath them. — Alan Ball
- The difference between film and TV is the pace. You don't have the leisure of time in television. — Alan Ball
- My background was producing and writing and performing in television when I started out, and I really missed that, that whole creative… — Eric Bana