History Quote by Demetri Martin Download Open image “Our Times, a Brief History: As televisions became flatter, People became rounder.” — Demetri Martin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare History Our time People Television Time
Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any standard but the soft buck. — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Television reflects our society in a more accurate way than at any time in the past. — Janet Street-Porter Copy Share Image
I love television. I think we're in a renaissance of epic proportion in television now. — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
For all its flexibility, television is more a mirror of taste than a shaper of it. — Russell Lynes Copy Share Image
There's something about the evolution of television where it evolved from to the things that we're now watching and loving. It evolved from film… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
I do think there was an age of television back in the '90s that was a little bit more wholesome. — Danielle Fishel Copy Share Image
Television is more interesting than people. If it were not we should have people standing in the corner of our room. — Alan Coren Copy Share Image
It became inevitable that television would address life's mundane problems because television itself is so mundane, part of the ordinary flow of time the… — Lee Siegel Copy Share Image
People get used to more complex forms of entertainment, and they become bored by simpler forms. Television has become more complex in order to… — Alex Tabarrok Copy Share Image
When I started doing television, I had no idea that people were watching it. But then things opened up for television in such a… — Fawad Khan Copy Share Image
I think hair gel was invented to make it easier to identify assholes from a distance. — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
When someone describes themself as a taxpayer, they're about to be an asshole. — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
I like to go to concerts because I love to see my favorite band through the phone of the asshole who's standing in front… — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
Skiing is my favorite sport, because, that's the only sport that is actually better to watch the worst the person is at it. "That… — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
I know about Woodstock probably as much as your average person who is over 30, where I'd know Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Grateful Dead. — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
I bought a cactus. A week later it died. And I got depressed, because I thought, Damn. I am less nurturing than a desert. — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
THING TO TRY: If you are asked to describe a suspect to a police sketch artist, describe in precise detail, the features of the… — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the entire history of the universe, let alone in your own history, there has never been another day just like today, and there will never be another just like it again. Today is the point to which all your yesterdays have been leading since the hour of your birth. It is the point from which all your tomorrows will… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share
History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to overcome their fears and openly confront dictators such as in East Germany and Eastern Europe about 22 years ago... The yearning for freedom cannot be contained by walls for long. It was this yearning that brought down the… — Angela Merkel Copy Share
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Things live and die, and then someone processes them into edible portions. This is a complete telling of the story, 'Food.' The basic plot… — David Fahrenthold Copy Share Image
History is a certain way, but you just change the point of view a little bit, and you discover a whole new side of… — Allison Schroeder Copy Share Image
We're at a point in history were we have to become a part of the neighborhood of inhabited planets, like a neighborhood of a community, which we have not even acknowledged that that community exists up until this point. — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share
