Television Quote by Malcolm Muggeridge

Television was not intended to make human beings vacuous, but it is an emanation of their vacuity.

— Malcolm Muggeridge

Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home.

— David Frost

I don't think we use television the way we should or the way the inventors intended.

— Will McDonough

Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house.

— Alfred Hitchcock

TV is a major force in our lives - a FORCE. It must be handled very carefully, both its censure and its artistic honesty.

— Bill Bixby

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

I believe for economic reasons, television is not exploited to the extent it can be.

— Mohnish Bahl

TV has had a stronger impact on our society than any single invention since the automobile. It has put the dead hand on conversation.

— Ann Landers

We need imagination in programming, not sterility; creativity, not imitation; experimentation, not conformity; excellence, not mediocrity. Television is filled with creative, imaginative people. You…

— Newton N. Minow

While television is a good servant, it's a bad master. It can swallow up huge quantities of our lives without much happiness bang for…

— Gretchen Rubin

People have romantic notions about television. In the highest realms they think it's some sort of art medium, and it's not. Others think it's…

— Bill Maher

People are medicated and TV is one of the things that they are medicated with.

— Frankie Boyle