“Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home.” PeopleInspirationalHomeHumorInspirationRoomsTelevisionTvsInventionPermitLiving RoomTelevision And Radio Author:David Frost
“We know enough to be sure that the scientific achievements of the next fifty years will be far greater, more rapid, and more surprising, than those we have already experienced. ... Wireless telephones and television, following naturally upon the their present path of development, would enable their owner to connect up to any room similarly equipped and hear and take part in the conversation as well as if he put his head in through the window.” IfsKnowsYearsWellsEnoughScienceNextRoomsKnowledgePathGreaterTelevisionDevelopmentConversationAchievementWindowFollowingFiftyOwnersSurprisingTelephonesRapidsWireless Author:Winston Churchill
“When there's a painting in the room, my eye goes right to it. It's like if you go into a bar and there's a television on, you can't take your eyes off the television. Paintings have that effect on me. It's where my eye settles.” IfsEyeRoomsEffectsTelevisionPaintingBarsSettling Author:Joe Bradley
“Everybody is a sinner before God. And I think we magnify it today because we have television, and we have so many other technologies that make what happens in some other part of the world in our living room.” ThinkingWorldHappensTodayRoomsTechnologyTelevisionSinnerLiving Room Author:Billy Graham
“I've noticed a lot of people talking about the wealth of roles for powerful women in television lately. And when I look around the room at the women here and I think about the performances that I've watched this year, what I see actually are women who are sometimes powerful and sometimes not. Sometimes sexy and sometimes not. Sometimes honourable and sometimes not. And what I think is new is the wealth of roles for actual women in television and in film. That's what I think is revolutionary and evolutionary and it's what turning me on.” PeopleThinkingYearsLooksSometimesFilmWealthRoomsPowerfulTalkingRolesTelevisionPerformancesSexyRevolutionaryPowerful WomenPeople Talking Author:Maggie Gyllenhaal
“I only like the live audience. I don't even like to do standup where it's being filmed. Because it affects the way the audience responds to what you say, because it makes them uncomfortable. You have to perform in a light room, and I prefer a dark room. But I love to perform, and I don't really see myself doing any television at all.” WayLightDarkRoomsAudienceTelevisionUncomfortableDark Room Author:Ron White
“When we're not trying to kill each other with spells, we just sit in in Daniel's dressing room watching cricket games on television.” TryingGamesRoomsTelevisionSpellsCricketDressingsDressing Rooms Author:Tom Felton
“When I started in television, it was brand new. It was the miracle over in the corner of your room. Now the audience has seen every story line. People have heard every joke. They can predict the plot almost before a show starts. That's a hard, sophisticated audience to reach.” PeopleHardStoriesShowsLinesRoomsAudienceHeardTelevisionJokesMiracleCornersBrandsPlotSophisticatedBrand NewYour Room Author:Betty White
“I had no idea that, when you audition for television or movies, you go to a big building - like, an office building - and you walk in the room, and everybody, I assumed, was smarter than me and better than me, and there's actors you recognize. I once fainted at an audition.” IdeasBigsActorsWalksRoomsTelevisionBuildingOfficeNo IdeaSmarterAuditionsOffice Buildings Author:Kurt Fuller
“The thing that I love about television there are no more than two or three people watching you at a time. If there are more than two or three people in a room they're talking to each other, they're not listening to you.” PeopleIfsTwoThreeRoomsTalkingTelevisionListening Author:Betty White
“The real test is this one: When you're alone in a room, when you're in a private place and nobody else can see you, what do you choose to do? Eat well, or eat poorly? Exercise, or watch television? Practice something, or do nothing? The best version of the truth appears to you and you alone, when nobody else can see. This is the test of discipline, and it's what makes the difference in your life. It's what regulates your own system and guides it. The individual alone comprehends it.” WellsRealIndividualDifferencesRoomsWatchesPracticeTelevisionDisciplineExerciseTestsGuidesVersionsYou Choose Author:Georges St-Pierre
“I don't think I am that materialistic, actually. Obviously at home in the country the art collection is important, but we have one big room in the middle of the house where we do everything - the television, the kitchen, everything.” ThinkingArtImportantCountryHomeBigsHouseRoomsMiddleTelevisionKitchenCollectionsMaterialistic Author:Andrew Lloyd Webber
“Chilling out on the bed in your hotel room watching television, while wearing your own pajamas, is sometimes the best part of a vacation.” SometimesRoomsTelevisionBedHotelVacationChillHotel RoomsPajamasWatching TelevisionChilling Out Author:Laura Marano
“Football today is far too much a sport for the few who can play it well; the rest of us, and too many of our children, get out exercise from climbing up the seats in stadiums, or from walking across the room to turn on our television sets.” WellsChildrenPlayTodayTurnsSportsRoomsToo MuchTelevisionFootballWalkingExerciseOur ChildrenSeatsClimbingTurn-onStadiumsClimbing Up Author:John F. Kennedy
“I don't have any TVs with their over-the-air receivers connected in my house. But when I'm in a hotel room or other places that have a TV, then I turn it on and flip the channels just like everybody else. I'm not immune to the lures of television. I just try to stay away from it because I like to read.” TryingTurnsHouseRoomsAirTelevisionTvsConnectedHotelFlipImmuneLureHotel RoomsReceiver Author:Bill Gates
“Wanting to be on television is a mental illness. Wanting to be president of the United States, wanting to be an actor - these are degrees of the same mental illness. If you need to be approved of simultaneously by more people than are in this room now, there's a problem.” PeopleIfsNeedsStatesProblemActorsPresidentUnitedRoomsUnited StatesTelevisionDegreesIllnessMental IllnessApproved Author:Keith Olbermann
“Putting people in a room and strapping wires to their wrist to find out if I make them tingle when I'm telling them about Beirut is a long way from Edward R. Murrow.” PeopleIfsWayLongRoomsTelevisionLong WayWireWristsBeirutEdward R Murrow Author:Linda Ellerbee
“The only way I'd want to do something in television would be if it was about how I think as a comedian. I'd need to be able to be a creator. That's what I enjoy - I enjoy coming up with comedy, so it'd be very difficult for me to be sitting in a room and have somebody come in and say, "Here's your script! Learn these lines!" That's not fun. At least not for me.” IfsThinkingWayWantNeedsWould BeAbleFunEnjoyDifficultLinesRoomsComedyTelevisionSittingScriptsCreatorComedian Author:Brian Regan
“When you work in front of the people, either in a film or in television, the people who are in the room with you are not watching you work, they're working so you'd have to light a fire to get them to watch what you were doing.” PeopleLightFilmRoomsWatchesFireFrontsTelevision Author:Richard Dreyfuss
“Working in television it's really great to be able to stick with a character for a long period of time. It's not like you have one shot, and that's it. You have more time, more room, an ability to reflect on your performance and the character and how much has really been shown, and what you'd like to see. It's nice. You have more breathing room.” LongCharacterAbleAbilityRoomsNiceTelevisionLike YouPeriodsShotsPerformancesSticksBreathingMore TimeReally GreatLong Periods Of Time Author:Christina Ricci
“The serious reader in the age of technology is a rebel by definition: a protester without a placard, a Luddite without hammer or bludgeon. She reads on planes to picket the antiseptic nature of modern travel, on commuter trains to insist on individualism in the midst of the herd, in hotel rooms to boycott the circumstances that separate her from her usual sources of comfort and stimulation, during office breaks to escape from the banal conversation of office mates, and at home to revolt against the pervasive and mind-deadening irrelevance of television.” MindHomeAgeRoomsBreakTechnologyModernTelevisionSeriousSourceReaderCircumstancesComfortConversationOfficeTrainDefinitionsPlanesHotelMidstRebelMatesUsualIndividualismHammersHerdsRevoltStimulationHotel RoomsBoycottIrrelevance Author:Eric Burns
“Working on television is like being shot out of a cannon. They cram you all up with rehearsals, then someone lights a fuse and - .BANG! - there you are in someone's living room.” LightRoomsTelevisionShotsBangsRehearsalLiving RoomCannonsFuse Author:Tallulah Bankhead
“Each had his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart; and his friends could only read the title. - Virginia Woolf, from Jacob's Room Television is chewing gum for the eyes.” HeartBookEyePastRoomsKnownTelevisionTitlesVirginiaJacobGumChewingWoolfChewing Gum Author:Frank Lloyd Wright
“Television: The device that brings into your living room characters you would never allow in your living room.” CharacterRoomsTelevisionDevicesLiving Room Author:Red Skelton
“We're all being segregated or sent to our different rooms to watch television that's geared only for adults, to be honest. There's very little fare - outside of cartoons and a few things for children (and) I guess (some reality shows like) The Voice - that can be watched by the entire family.” ChildrenLittlesDifferentShowsRealityVoiceRoomsWatchesHonestTelevisionAdultsBeing HonestCartoonReality Shows Author:Michael Landon, Jr.