Amusement Quote by Paddy Chayefsky Download Open image “Television is not the truth. Television is a goddamned amusement park.” — Paddy Chayefsky ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Amusement Amusement Park Amusement parks Parks Television Truth
Television is not the truth! Television is a goddamned amusement park. Television is a circus, a carnival, a travelling troupe of acrobats and story-tellers,… — Paddy Chayefsky Copy Share Image
Television is god-damned amusement park. Television is a circus, a carnival, a traveling troupe of acrobats, storytellers, dancers, singers, jugglers, sideshow freaks, lion tamers… — Paddy Chayefsky Copy Share Image
At Current, television is all we do - that's our business. We don't have amusement parks I have to worry about, we don't have… — Keith Olbermann Copy Share Image
Television was supposed to be a national park. (Instead) it has become a money machine... It's a commodity now, just like pork bellies. — Fred W. Friendly Copy Share Image
Television is so cool. Television is proving that we can be sophisticated and that people will watch, if it's good. — Jose Padilha Copy Share Image
We, as a culture, use television as at least one of the great arbiters of truth. Even though we know it's fiction, when we… — Peter Paige Copy Share Image
We take what's shown on television as the truth, and it isn't. News isn't even the truth on television. If you look up the… — Val Kilmer Copy Share Image
There's no denying that television is one of the most powerful propaganda media we've ever invented. — Jim Fowler Copy Share Image
We've established the most enormous medical entity ever conceived... and people are sicker than ever. We cure nothing! We heal nothing! — Paddy Chayefsky Copy Share Image
The best thing that can happen is for the theme to be nice and clear from the beginning. — Paddy Chayefsky Copy Share Image
It's not greed and ambition that makes wars--it's goodness. Wars are always fought for the best of reasons, for liberation or manifest destiny, always… — Paddy Chayefsky Copy Share Image
It is the international system of currency which determines the totality of life on this planet. That is the natural order of things today.… — Paddy Chayefsky Copy Share Image
I don't know what's good, or bad, or true. I let God worry about truth. I just want to know the momentary fact of… — Paddy Chayefsky Copy Share Image
“I would like at this moment to announce that I will be retiring from this program in two weeks' time because of poor ratings.… — Paddy Chayefsky Copy Share Image
“I don't have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It's a depression. Everybody's out of work or scared of… — Paddy Chayefsky Copy Share Image
Television is not the truth! Television is a goddamned amusement park. Television is a circus, a carnival, a travelling troupe of acrobats and story-tellers,… — Paddy Chayefsky Copy Share Image
Stop thinking about writing as art. Think of it as work. If you’re an artist, whatever you do is going to be art. If… — Paddy Chayefsky Copy Share Image
Television is god-damned amusement park. Television is a circus, a carnival, a traveling troupe of acrobats, storytellers, dancers, singers, jugglers, sideshow freaks, lion tamers… — Paddy Chayefsky Copy Share Image
Cultivate the habit of thinking ahead, and of anticipating the necessary and immediate consequences of all your actions… Likewise in your pleasures, ask yourself… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Ancient eyes had stared at me, filled with ancient grief. And something more. Something so alien and unexpected that I'd almost burst into tears.… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed. — Bela Lugosi Copy Share Image
By amusing myself with all these games, all this nonsense, all these picture puzzles, I became famous... I am only a public entertainer who… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
I just started writing for my own amusement and occasionally singing in little clubs around Los Angeles. Then I wrote 'The Rose,' and through… — Amanda McBroom Copy Share Image
Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Ordinary people simply don't know what books mean to us, shut up here. Reading, learning, and the radio are our amusements. — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
My first job was at an amusement park in Virginia. It was the worst. I loved the park but once I'd worked there all… — Danny McBride Copy Share Image
The Stoics say, "Retire within yourselves; it is there you will find your rest." And that is not true. Others say, "Go out of… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
I realized, "Gee, you're making the same film over and over here." I just kept making them for my own amusement, but also with… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
I like these boots," I told Vayl. "Do you think they'd sell them to me cheap? I keep ruining mine." "Since when do you… — Jennifer Rardin Copy Share Image
