Television Quote by Fred W. Friendly Download Open image “Television makes so much at its worst that it can't afford to do its best.” — Fred W. Friendly ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Television Worst
The making of television has changed quite a bit. Now you have to do them n cheaper budgets. — Bruce Boxleitner Copy Share Image
While television is a good servant, it's a bad master. It can swallow up huge quantities of our lives without much happiness bang for… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
If television encouraged us to work as much as it encourages us to do everything else, we could better afford to buy more of… — Cullen Hightower Copy Share Image
Television is ultimately a business of failure. You try a lot of things, and most of it fails. — Greg Berlanti Copy Share Image
Anybody who wants to make television has a tremendous problem because it's a financially restrictive media in this day and age. — David Jason Copy Share Image
I believe for economic reasons, television is not exploited to the extent it can be. — Mohnish Bahl Copy Share Image
It's too bad that television needs so much material and does not leave time for quality writing. That's one of the things I have… — Lorne Greene Copy Share Image
TV is all about schedule and budget, and you're always fighting that. — Genndy Tartakovsky Copy Share Image
Television is one of the most fickle businesses that there are, you are in favour one minute and out the next. — Jeff Greenfield Copy Share Image
What TV is extremely good at - and realize that this is 'all it does' - is discerning what large numbers of people think… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
TV is bigger than any story it reports. It's the greatest teaching tool since the printing press. — Fred W. Friendly Copy Share Image
Television was supposed to be a national park. (Instead) it has become a money machine... It's a commodity now, just like pork bellies. — Fred W. Friendly Copy Share Image
No mighty king, no ambitious emperor, no pope, or prophet ever dreamt of such an awesome pulpit, so potent a magic wand. — Fred W. Friendly Copy Share Image
I have a motto: My job is not to make up anybody's mind but to make the agony of decision making so intense that… — Fred W. Friendly Copy Share Image
A composite is a euphemism for a lie. It's disorderly. It's dishonest and it's not journalism. — Fred W. Friendly Copy Share Image
While the Constitution is what the judges say it is, a public issue is something that Walter Cronkite or John Chancellor recognizes as such.… — Fred W. Friendly Copy Share Image
Today's reporter is forced to become an educator more concerned with explaining the news than with being first on the scene. — Fred W. Friendly Copy Share Image
The news is the one thing the networks can point to with pride. Everything else they do is crap, and they know it. — Fred W. Friendly Copy Share Image
Because after you've crossed some lines, you just keep crossing them. And there's no escaping from constant escape. Distracting ourselves. Avoiding confrontation. Getting past… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
To an ever greater extent out experience is governed by pictures, pictures in newspapers and magazines, on television and in the cinema. Next to… — Douglas Crimp Copy Share Image
Television, radio, social media. The 24/7 news cycle plows forward mercilessly on our desks, in our cars and in our pockets. Thousands and thousands… — Joseph Prince Copy Share Image
It is extremely difficult to do anything constructive, let alone deep, on daily commercial television, especially on a talk show. — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
My first match was on television with no buffer, but I wouldn't have it any other way. I feel like I've learned faster than… — Brandi Rhodes Copy Share Image
The happy medium is television. And if you find a good suitor, you can do it for years. With movies, you roll the dice.… — Bruce Campbell Copy Share Image
Television's perfect. You turn a few knobs, a few of those mechanical adjustments at which the higher apes are so proficient, and lean back… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
I didn't get how big it was until I went home, turned on the television and saw it on all the news, and later… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
Television series are like the stock market. There's room for bears and bulls but no room for pigs. — Bob Newhart Copy Share Image
Conservatives, despite their increasingly powerful presence on cable TV and talk radio, feel excluded and disregarded by the longstanding preponderance of liberal voices on… — Michael Medved Copy Share Image
