Television Screen Quotes

13 quotes by 12 authors

• The primary danger of the television screen lies not so much in the behavior it produces as the behavior it prevents-the talks, the games, the… — Urie Bronfenbrenner
• War is not a computer-generated missile striking a digital map. War is the color of earth as it explodes in our faces, the sound of… — Zainab Salbi
• Like the sorcerer of old, the television set casts its magic spell, freezing speech and action, turning the living into silent statues so long as… — Urie Bronfenbrenner
• The television screen, so unlike the movie screen, sharply reduced human beings, revealed them as small, trivial, flat, in two banal dimensions, drained of color.… — Joyce Carol Oates
• Reading not only enlarges and challenges the mind; it also engages and exercises the brain. Today's youth who sits mesmerized by a television screen is… — Richard M. Nixon
• Television is our culture's principal mode of knowing about itself. Therefore -- and this is the critical point -- how television stages the world becomes… — Neil Postman
• Charred bits of black silk swirl into the air, and pearls clatter to the stage… I’m in a dress of the exact design of my… — Suzanne Collins
• On the morning of September 11th, I was literally about 18 blocks from the World Trade Center. I witnessed in person what a lot of… — Steve Tisch
• He seems to want confrontation not only with the legislature and with the other elected officials, but he wants constant confrontation in order to be… — Bill Scott
• Nothing could be recorded in those days except by aiming a movie camera at the television screen. It was at least another 10 years before… — Nigel Kneale
• When I was little, I would always try and look into the television screen along the sides. I kept thinking if you looked in there,… — Andrea Riseborough
• It's the first war we've ever fought on the television screen and the first war that our country ever fought where the media had full… — William Westmoreland
• It's certain that the death of an actor can be on a television screen playing the same thing every week. — Giancarlo Esposito

Who Wrote These Television Screen Quotes

12 authors contributed a total of 13 Television Screen Quotes as follows:

• 2 Television Screen Quotes by Urie Bronfenbrenner
• 1 Television Screen Quote by Bill Scott
• 1 Television Screen Quote by Nigel Kneale
• 1 Television Screen Quote by Andrea Riseborough
• 1 Television Screen Quote by William Westmoreland
• 1 Television Screen Quote by Giancarlo Esposito
• 1 Television Screen Quote by Zainab Salbi
• 1 Television Screen Quote by Joyce Carol Oates
• 1 Television Screen Quote by Richard M. Nixon
• 1 Television Screen Quote by Neil Postman
• 1 Television Screen Quote by Suzanne Collins
• 1 Television Screen Quote by Steve Tisch