Television Quote by John Leonard Download Open image “Television is a corporate vulgarity.” — John Leonard ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Television Vulgarity
Television is not vulgar because people are vulgar; it is vulgar because people are similar in their prurient interests and sharply differentiated in their… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
There are certain values that, in my opinion, television has lost - various moral lines. How far you go in, say, revealing what people… — David Jason 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
I don't know why people think that somehow the First Amendment applies to network television. It doesn't. It's like the way free speech doesn't… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
Television is like the movie business. It's not the least-objectionable program - it's the best program that gets positioned. Same in the movie business.… — Henry Blodget Copy Share Image
Television is perhaps the greatest medium ever discovered to teach and educate and even to entertain. But the filth, the rot, the violence, and… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
Television can be quite corporatized: There's a pecking order and a process, and so many layers that it can take away some of the… — Kari Skogland Copy Share Image
Isn't it amazing the way the future succeeds in creating an appropriate past? — John Leonard Copy Share Image
“For Pol Pot, as for every other kamikaze of Kingdom Come, "the goal was not to destroy but to transmute." We have heard this… — John Leonard Copy Share Image
In the cellars of the night, when the mind starts moving around old trunks of bad times, the pain of this and the shame… — John Leonard Copy Share Image
“Isn't post-modernism really one big cover-up for the failure of the French to write a truly interesting novel ever since a sports car ate… — John Leonard Copy Share Image
“I was going to suggest some hard-won guidelines for responsible reviewing. For instance: First, as in Hippocrates, do no harm. Second, never stoop to… — John Leonard Copy Share Image
“Books are where we go alone to complicate ourselves. Inside this solitude, we take on contours, textures, perspectives. Heightened language levitates the reader. Great… — John Leonard Copy Share Image
Aspiring to a souffle, he achieves a pancake at which the reader saws without much appetite. — John Leonard Copy Share Image
“It seems to me that my whole life I've been standing on some tower or a pillbox or a trampoline, waving the names of… — John Leonard Copy Share Image
The rich are different from you and me because they have more credit. — John Leonard Copy Share Image
Books fall from Garry Wills like leaves from a maple tree in a sort of permanent October. — John Leonard 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
