Hard Quote by Martin Mull

American television really is pathetic.

— Brian Eno

Mental reflection is so much more interesting than TV it's a shame more people don't switch over to it.

— Robert M. Pirsig

TV has taken reflection out of the human condition. People didn't use to have a ready answer for everything, whether they knew something about…

— Alan Arkin

Of course you have a duty to show the disfigurations of society as well as its more agreeable aspects. But if TV in the…

— Margaret Thatcher

Sometimes you wonder if television is really affecting the culture.

— Ken Howard

A lot of television tends to assume that audiences don't have the attention span or the IQ to follow a lot of stuff.

— J. Michael Straczynski

We live in a big and marvelously varied world. Television ought to reflect that.

— Edwin Newman

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

— Bennett Cerf

There is a tendency around the world today to copy TV culture. And that is not always a virtue.

— Francis Arinze

TV has taken reflection out of the human condition. People didn't use to have a ready answer for everything, whether they knew something about…

— Alan Arkin

I think network TV to a large extent has underestimated the intelligence of the American public for so many years now. It's tried to…

— Adrian Pasdar

Television provokes strong opinions, and sometimes we try a bit too hard to appeal to everyone.

— Jo Brand