“We have entered a time when a writer's first idea is his best idea, when the first thing a reporter hears is the first thing that she reports. We live in a time now when we have seen major television networks take video off of YouTube and broadcast it to millions of Americans without verifying whether the video had been fabricated or not.” FirstsIdeasMillionsTelevisionMajorsVideoReportsReportersYoutube Author:Scott Pelley
“Well, I really want to encourage a kind of fantasy, a kind of magic. I love the term magic realism, whoever invented it – I do actually like it because it says certain things. It's about expanding how you see the world. I think we live in an age where we're just hammered, hammered to think this is what the world is. Television's saying, everything's saying 'That's the world.' And it's not the world. The world is a million possible things.” ThinkingWorldWantWellsKindAgeCertainTermMillionsFantasyMagicTelevisionRealismExpandingHammeredMagic Realism Author:Terry Gilliam
“The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely.” PeopleFeelsStillsMillionsLaughingTelevisionJokesLonelyRemarkablePermitMiscellaneousFeeling Lonely Author:T. S. Eliot
“Most poets, most good poets even, no longer have the heart to write about what is most terrible in the world of the present: the bombs waiting beside the rockets, the hundreds of millions staring into the temporary shelter of their television sets, the decline of the West that seems less a decline than the fall preceding an explosion.” WorldWritingHeartSeemsFallWaitingMillionsTelevisionPoetTerribleWestStaringBombsTemporaryDeclineShelterExplosionsRockets Author:Randall Jarrell
“Here in the UK, we've now got an evangelical television channel - it's the kind of thing that will be very familiar to everyone in the United States, especially if you've ever turned on your TV set on a Sunday morning, and seen one holy man after another, urging you to send money so that Jesus can buy a new cadillac. Apparently, Jesus can't save the world until he's been properly kitted out with a million-dollar mansion, and a private jet - some small print in the Gospels that we must have missed.” IfsMenWorldKindStatesJesusUnitedMorningMillionsUnited StatesTelevisionTvsHolyDollarsFamiliarSundayPrintMillion DollarsJetSave The WorldEvangelicalMansionsSunday MorningCadillacsHoly ManPrivate JetSmall Print Author:Pat Condell
“Advocates of dumbing down should note the wonderfully perverse fact that 'University Challenge' and 'Mastermind' were watched by millions who could hardly even understand the questions, let alone ejaculate the answers. Maybe they just liked to watch smart people sweating.” PeopleShouldFactsChallengesAnswersWatchesMillionsTelevisionSmartNotesUniversitySmart PeopleSweatingMastermindDumbing Down Author:Declan Lynch
“The savage, rocky shores of Christmas Island, 200 miles south of Java, in the Indian Ocean. It's November, the moon is in its third quarter, and the sun is just setting. In a few hours from now, on this very shore, a thousand million lives will be launched.” HoursMillionsSunTelevisionThousandMoonOceanThirdsSouthMilesSettingSettingsIndianIslandsShoreQuartersSavagesNovemberJava Author:David Attenborough
“But of course when people watch morning television, Terry, it's a very different animal. You know, they're running around, they're getting their kids ready for school, they're probably doing eight million things, they're brushing their teeth.” PeopleKnowsDifferentRunningKidsSchoolCoursesLiteratureAnimalWatchesMorningMillionsTelevisionReadyEightTeethBrushingDifferent Animals Author:Katie Couric
“For millions, Roger Ebert will be remembered as a writer and television personality who brought a sense of passion and excellence to his craft. For me, he is a man who fused joy and courage as few others ever have. My life was enriched by having such a friend; it is poorer for losing such a friend.” MenJoyPassionMillionsTelevisionPersonalityLosingExcellenceCraftsRememberedRoger Author:Jeff Greenfield
“Like sugar and, oh - let's say the most tabloidy and gossipy reality television programs - credit is, for millions, genuinely addictive.” RealityMillionsTelevisionProgramCreditSugarReality Television Author:Tom Shales
“For tens of millions of people [television] has become habit-forming, brain-softening, taste-degrading.” PeopleBrainMillionsTelevisionHabitTasteDegrading Author:Louis Kronenberger
“Television has given Pakistan a truly open national forum for the first time in its history. Ideas are debated, leaders are assessed and criticised, and a nation of 170 million people is finally discovering, together, what it thinks.” PeopleThinkingFirstsIdeasTogetherGivenNationsLeaderMillionsTelevisionFirst TimeDiscoveringPakistanForums Author:Mohsin Hamid
“I think the idea that television has evolved to this place of real thematic richness and the fact that you no longer have to get 10 million people to watch your show in order to propagate its survival are the best things that have ever happened to storytelling in this medium.” PeopleThinkingIdeasRealFactsShowsOrderWatchesMillionsHappenedTelevisionSurvivalStorytellingMediumsBest ThingsRichnessThematic Author:Damon Lindelof
“In 1948, television was introduced, and millions and millions of people lead larval, low-awareness, warehoused lives mainlining an electronic drug straight into their brains.” PeopleBrainMillionsAwarenessTelevisionDrugLows Author:Terence McKenna
“The movies television and music we used to produce created an image of America that the world envied... now the millions around the world call us the Great Satan - and with good cause.” WorldAmericaUsedCausesMillionsProduceTelevisionAround The WorldSatanEnviedGood Causes Author:Pat Boone
“It's amazing how many people you see on TV. I did my first television show a month ago, and the next day five million television sets were sold. The people who couldn't sell theirs threw them away.” PeopleFirstsShowsNextMillionsFiveTelevisionTvsMonthsSellsNext DayTelevision Shows Author:Bob Hope
“The most dreadful thing of all is that many millions of people in the poor countries are going to starve to death before our eyes. We shall see them doing so upon our television sets.” PeopleCountryEyePoorMillionsTelevisionPoor Countries Author:C.P. Snow
“Richard Nixon... was just offered $2 million by Schick to do a television commercial - for Gillette.” MillionsTelevisionTelevision Commercials Author:Gerald R. Ford
“It's the open ocean right now because it's so unique. It's a really unique way of doing American television. There are a million possibilities. We can stay with the cops. We can introduce new worlds. And, who knows where it will end.” KnowsWorldWayEndsMillionsPossibilityTelevisionRight NowOceanUniqueNew WorldIntroducingCopAmerican Television Author:Veena Sud
“Recently, one friend asked me, "How can I force myself to smile when I am filled with sorrow? It isn't natural." I told her she must be able to smile to her sorrow, because we are more than our sorrow. A human being is like a television set with millions of channels. If we turn the Buddha on, we are the Buddha. If we turn sorrow on then we are sorrow. If we turn a smile on, we really are the smile. We can not let just one channel dominate us. We have the seed of everything in us, and we have to seize the situation in our hand, to recover our own sovereignty.” IfsHumansHandsAbleTurnsForceNaturalHuman BeingsSituationMillionsTelevisionSorrowFilledSeedsJust OneCan NotSovereigntyOne Friend Author:Nhat Hanh
“Commercial television has lowered the general standard of TV in an endeavour to get millions and masses of people to watch the advertising. But that is not the problem of the advertiser.” PeopleProblemWatchesMillionsTelevisionTvsMassStandardsAdvertisingEndeavourAdvertisers Author:Alfred Robens, Baron Robens of Woldingham
“Theatre has always been better disposed to colourblind casting than telly or film. Given that most television is contemporary, and it reaches 56 million people, I am disappointed there still isn't more representation.” PeopleStillsFilmGivenMillionsTelevisionTheatreContemporaryDisappointedRepresentationCastingI Am Disappointed Author:Sanjeev Bhaskar
“Playing in front of 25,000 people and millions more on television, and performing and doing what I worked so hard to try to accomplish was, in my opinion, the ultimate. Do I miss it? Of course I do.” PeopleTryingHardCoursesOpinionMillionsMissingFrontsTelevisionUltimateAccomplishPerforming Author:Jimmy Connors
“My biggest surprise of the year does involve Donald Trump and it involves his money. And I am one of the prominent disbelievers of his claims of wealth and how rich he was. He put out a press release before he did his financial disclosure form saying he made over $200 million from a TV show.If you know about the economics of televisions, that sounds impossible. I don`t believe it.” IfsKnowsYearsBelieveDoeMadeShowsFormSoundWealthMillionsRichImpossibleTelevisionTvsTrumpEconomicsClaimsPressesSurpriseDon't BelieveFinancialReleaseTv ShowsProminentDisclosurePress ReleaseDisbelievers Author:Lawrence O'Donnell
“It is all too easy to draw conclusions and make sweeping judgments about millions of Muslim women based on fleeting television images. That is not right.” EasyMillionsTelevisionJudgmentDrawsConclusionFleetingSweepingMuslim Women Author:Queen Rania of Jordan