Ability Quote by Jack McDevitt

“Americans have become passive and lazy. We are like ancient Romans who live to be entertained. And in our lust for entertainment, we are…

— Doug Philips

“Katie put her elbow on her knee and put her head into her hand, and Will saw in a sudden flash that she could…

— Mae Marvel

“TV demands so little of us. It anesthetizes our worried minds and breeds mental laziness.”

— Steve Whigham

“And the second [thing about the CBS EVENING NEWS that stands out in the mind of Michael J. Fox] was something Katie did later…

— Michael J. Fox

“Americans seemed to enjoy the sport of publicly humiliating one another.”

— Helen Simonson

TV's sameness has destroyed many things, such as the American urge toward independent thought.

— Bennett Cerf

Americans have never quite digested television. The mystique which should fade grows stronger. We make celebrities not only of the men who cause events…

— Joe McGinniss

The mood state Americans are in, on average, when watching television is mildly depressed.

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Everyone is struggling to compete with how people consume television these days.

— Erin Foster

What the Americans have done is refuse to back down. They've refused to make the cheapest, lowest common denominator forms of entertainment for TV…

— Douglas Henshall

“Katie soon learned there was a problem with hope.”

— Carla H Krueger

I believe America wants and needs the shared experience of television. We far too often see in crises how television brings us together.

— Warren Littlefield