Television Quote by Larry Gelbart Download Open image “If vaudeville had died, television was the box they put it in.” — Larry Gelbart ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Television Vaudeville
Nobody seems to know yet how television is going to affect the radio, movies, love, housekeeping or the church, but it has definitely revived… — Edgar Bergen Copy Share Image
TV—a clever contraction, derived from the words Terrible Vaudeville. We call it a medium, because nothing's well done. — Goodman Ace Copy Share Image
The television replaced the sound of conversation that was missing from my grandparents' lives. — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
TV - a clever contraction derived from the words Terrible Vaudeville. However, it is our latest medium - we call it a medium because… — Goodman Ace Copy Share Image
Television was not invented to make human beings vacuous, but is an emanation of their vacuity. — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
Television is dead. And television will not be reborn. It will not come back. — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
There was really a snobbery from people in film - they did not want people who had come from television. It was the poor… — Sally Field Copy Share Image
Hey Butthead, what did they do in the olden times when they didnt have any TV? -Beavis — Beavis And Butt-Head Copy Share Image
Hey Butthead, what did they do in the olden times when they didnt have any TV? — Beavis And Butthead Copy Share Image
Television was not intended to make human beings vacuous, but it is an emanation of their vacuity. — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
I think the greatest imagination we can exercise is one that imagines how someone else feels. Because you know how you feel, but so… — Larry Gelbart Copy Share Image
I am on sort of a diet in terms of the Internet. It's the sheer quantity. It's the Niagara of opinion, of information. It's… — Larry Gelbart Copy Share Image
A war is like when it rains in New York and everybody crowds into doorways. They all get chummy together perfect strangers. The only… — Larry Gelbart Copy Share Image
The subtle differences in language and humor that get lost in translation, for example, make it almost impossible for big companies to do something… — Larry Gelbart Copy Share Image
Today's audience knows more about what's on television than what's in life. — Larry Gelbart Copy Share Image
I don't think you can name a good picture where the production or the possible promotion isn't "cast-contingent." That means the film needs not… — Larry Gelbart Copy Share Image
I write what I write and I honestly don't care if it gets on or not. I'm writing to see if I can find… — Larry Gelbart Copy Share Image
I think technology is such that we can reach new heights but we need some of the basics of the pre-technological age. It's counter-productive… — Larry Gelbart Copy Share Image
I never watched Friends, maybe because it was written by people straight out of college....The only way to avoid age discrimination in Hollywood is… — Larry Gelbart Copy Share Image
Reality television is less honest than YouTube. YouTube is the real reality. — Larry Gelbart Copy Share Image
I refuse to do anything easy. I'm writing for the smartest person out there. I'm not equating myself with the smartest person out there,… — Larry Gelbart 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
