Culture Quote by John Sandford

“Somehow, television made behavior that you would go out of your way to avoid in real life into something fascinating.”

— Jean Thompson

“Television is all right, I've nothing against it, but I don't like how it turns you away from the rest of the world and…

— Stephen King

“We rarely talk about television, only about what’s on television”

— Neil Postman

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

— Steve Whigham

“It’s liberating to not have a TV. Television sucks so much life out of our lives. It takes our money, our time, our attention,…

— Joshua Fields Millburn

“The main purpose of TV, to make you believe in everything you see around you, is real. And then, direct you, by using your…

— VicDo

“With television, we vault ourselves into a continuous, incoherent present.”

— Neil Postman

“The television is 'real'. It is immediate, it has dimension. It tells you what to think and blasts it in. It must be right.…

— Ray Bradbury

“I often wish I could just passively watch people without being expected to participate myself, like television.”

— M.E. Thomas

“I am also aware of television’s potential for creating a theater for the masses (a subject which in my opinion has not been taken…

— Neil Postman

“Don't you hate TV when people are supposed to be talking to one another? Television puts up a wall between people.”

— Peter Marino

“Television is for appearing on - not for looking at.”

— Noël Coward