Books Quote by Gerald Durrell

“It seemed as if humans had lost the ability to make their own fun. The more they were gifted with inventions, the less they…

— Laura Whitcomb

“In those days, living as we did in the country, without the dubious benefits of radio or television, we had to rely on such…

— Gerald Durrell

“...because television had become the primary means through which people appropriated the world, it promulgated an epistemology in which all information, whatever the source,…

— Neal Gabler

“I had hoped, as a broadcaster, to be merely ludicrous, but this is a hard world to be ludicrous in, with so many human…

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“When the radio was on, music has stimulated memory of times and places, complete with characters and stage sets, memories so exact that every…

— John Steinbeck

“Because of the times, and because the child has been living in a world filled with every kind of thrill and adventure, it is…

— Judith C. Waller

“it is a wretched thing when amusement becomes a vocation. Amusement should be used to do us good "like a medicine"; it must never…

— Charles H. Spurgeon

“..And songs, to me, were more important than just light entertainment. They were my preceptor and guide into some altered consciousness of reality, some…

— Bob Dylan

We didn't have television in those days, and many people didn't even have radios. My mother would read aloud to my father and me…

— Beverly Cleary

“I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me to be the most civilized music in the world. ”

— Peter Ustinov

“Such was life that morning: nothing really mattered that much, not the good things and the bad ones. We were in the business of…

— John Green

I'm extremely surprised to learn that a story, which has become familiar to children through the medium of comic strips and many succeeding novels…

— Orson Welles