T Quotes
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“Television, I love it, everything that happened before television lumped together, never caused folks to turn on a street to stare at me, or waitresses to ask for autographs.”
“Television, I would say,
isn't an advertising medium.
It's a selling medium.”
“Television, I'm afraid, has isolated us more than race, class, or ethnicity.”
“Television, in particular, doesn't look for talent; it looks for personas. You have a great persona? You can be a TV star.”
“Television, introduced at the close of World War II, has become a form of electronic heroin, and it isn't even your trip. They don't even let you go on your own trip, you get a trip designed by Madison Avenue.”
“Television, radio, and all the sources of amusement and information that surround us in our daily lives are also artificial props. They can give us the impression that our minds are active, because we are required to react to stimuli from the outside. But the power of those external stimuli to keep us going is limited. They are like drugs. We grow used to them, and we continuously need more and more of them. Eventually, they have little or no effect. Then, if we lack resources within ourselves, we cease to grow intellectually, morally, and spiritually. And we we cease to grow, we begin to die.”
“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 of messages and voices bombard us from the moment we wake, fighting for our attention. All we see and hear, all day long, is news. And most of it is bad.”
“Television, the drug of the nation, breeding ignorance and feeding radiation.”
“Television, while chemically non-invasive, nevertheless is every bit as addicting and physiologically damaging as any other drug.”
“Television. An advanced technical method of stopping people from making their own entertainment.”
“television. It has changed the way that we perceive the world out there, and though we know that - have indeed been bombarded with analyses on the consequences for society, for the family, and for individual psychology - I don't believe that we have yet begun to appreciate the reach of its subliminal effects, of what we might call 'the slow viruses.' They not only get into our ways of seeing, they pervade the ways in which we weave our perceptions together into patterns that support and explain our thinking and our doing and both direct and hinder various kinds of relationships.”
“Television. That's where movies go when they die.”
Source: Bob Hope
“Television... is not a substitute for print.”
“Television: The device that brings into your living room characters you would never allow in your living room.”
“Television: The word is half Greek, half Latin. No good can come of it.”
“Televisions and movies have made many Americans into habitual consumers of synthetic experience-audiovisual fantasies that simply pass the time.”
Source: Brain Power: Learn to Improve Your Thinking Skills
“Televisions are devices with screens that things appear on.”
“Televisison is like a factory line. You need discipline and focus. You have to hit your mark and know your lines. It's not that I don't know my lines when I do a film, but the pace of discovery is always a little bit more relaxed and nurturing and almost babying, in a way. Television toughens you up, and I like that, but I don't want it to toughen me up too much.”
“Televison allows thousands of people to laugh at the same joke and still remain alone.”
“Televizyon okuma kültürünü yok etmiştir. Halbuki zihinsel gelişim için okuma eyleminin yerini hiçbir eylem tutamaz. Seyirci olmak için hiçbir beceri gerekmez. "Televizyon okuma-yazma kültürünü genişletmez ve pekiştirmez. Tersine, okuma-yazma kültürüne saldırır. Televizyon, herhangi bir şeyin devamıysa eğer, on beşinci yüzyıldaki matbaanın değil, 19. Yüzyılın ortasında telgraf ile fotoğrafın başlattığı geleneğin devamıdır.”
Source: Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
“Tell 'em the truth and they call you a traitor,
Talk to 'em honestly and they call you a hater.”
“Tell a child, a husband or an employee that he is stupid or dumb at a certain thing, that he has no gift for it, and that he is doing it all wrong and you have destroyed almost every incentive to try to improve. But use the opposite technique, be liberal with encouragement; make the thing seem easy to do, let the other person know that you have faith in his ability to do it, that he has an undeveloped flair for it - and he will practice until the dawn comes in at the window in order to excel.”
“Tell a devout Christian that his wife is cheating on him, or that frozen yogurt can make a man invisible, and he is likely to require as much evidence as anyone else, and to be persuaded only to the extent that you give it. Tell him that the book he keeps by his bed was written by an invisible deity who will punish him with fire for eternity if he fails to accept its every incredible claim about the universe, and he seems to require no evidence what so ever.”
“Tell a female she's thin and she's yours for life.”
Source: Professor Romeo
“Tell a lie loud enough and long enough and people will believe it.”
“Tell a lie often enough, it becomes the truth”
“Tell a man something is bad, and he's not at all sure he wants to give it up. Describe it as stupid, and he knows it's the better part of caution to listen.”
“Tell a man that there are 400 billion stars and he'll believe you. Tell him a bench has wet paint and he has to touch it.”
“Tell a man what he may not sing and he is still half free; even all free, if he never wanted to sing it. But tell him what he must sing, take up his time with it so that his true voice cannot sound even in secret -- there, I have seen is slavery.”
Source: The Praise Singer: A Virago Modern Classic
“Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen - but urge me not to use moderation in a cause like the present.”
“Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.”
“Tell a scoundrel, three or four times a day, that he is the pink of probity, and you make him at least the perfection of "respectability" in good earnest. On the other hand, accuse an honorable man, too petinaciously, of being a villain, and you fill him with a perverse ambition to show you that you are not altogether in the wrong.”
“Tell a story in fewer and simpler words.”
Source: On Writing Wonderfully: The Craft of Creative Fiction Writing
“Tell a story! Don't try to impress your reader with style or vocabulary or neatly turned phrases. Tell the story first!”
“Tell a thousand people to draft a letter, let them debate every phrase, and see how long it takes and what you get.”
“Tell a wise person, or else keep silent,
because the mass man will mock it right away.
I praise what is truly alive,
what longs to be burned to death.
In the calm water of the love-nights,
where you were begotten, where you have begotten,
a strange feeling comes over you,
when you see the silent candle burning.
Now you are no longer caught
in the obsession with darkness,
and a desire for higher love-making
sweeps you upward.
Distance does not make you falter.
Now, arriving in magic, flying,
and finally, insane for the light,
you are the butterfly and you are gone.
And so long as you haven't experienced
this: to die and so to grow,
you are only a troubled guest
on the dark earth.”
“Tell about the South. What's it like there. What do they do there. Why do they live there. Why do they live at all.”
Source: Absalom, Absalom!
“Tell all my mourners
To mourn in red-
Cause there ain't no sense
In my bein' dead.”
Source: Selected poems
“Tell all the fans that I completely adore them, and tell them I say, 'Thank you so much', for their love and support; and that I miss them terribly, and hopefully I get to see them or they get to see me up on the screen soon. And send my love, definitely.”
“Tell all the truth but tell it slant.”
Source: The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
“Tell all the truth but tell it slant- success in circuit lies
Too bright for our infirm delight
the truth's suberp surprise
As lightning to the children eased
with explanation kind
the truth must dazzle gradually
or every man be bilnd-”
“Tell all the Truth but tell it slant-- Success in Circuit lies Too bright for our infirm Delight The Truth's superb surprise As Lightning to the Children eased With explanation kind The Truth must dazzle gradually Or every man be blind--”
Source: Dickinson
“Tell all the Truth, but tell it slant/Success in Circuit lies.”
“Tell Allen I plead guilty to vampirism and other crimes against life. But I love him and nothing else cancels love.”
“Tell Anne..." I broke off. There was too much to send in one message. There were long years of rivalry and then a forced unity and always and ever, underpinning our love for each other, our sense that the other must be bested. How could I send her one word which would acknowledge all of that, and yet tell her that I loved her still, that I was glad I had been her sister, even though I knew she had brought herself to this point and taken George here too? That, though I would never forgive her for what she had done to us all, at the same time, I totally and wholly understood?
"Tell her what?" Catherine hovered, waiting to be released.
"Tell her that I think of her," I said simply. "All the time. Every day. The same as always.”
Source: The Other Boleyn Girl
“Tell anyone and everyone your idea without fear they're going to steal it.”
“Tell Aretha I’ll be praying for herBecause she needs Jesus!I love her.”
“Tell beautiful women they are smart, and smart women they are beautiful.”
“Tell Daddy how much you love being the only girl who gets to fuck his face.”
Source: Sine Qua Non
“Tell Dr. Jonas next time I'll do that thing he likes with the peanut butter and the cock ring."
"It is without a doubt the sole reason he went to medical school.”
Source: The Siren