“If I feel in need of sleep, I just open a book or turn on the television. Both are better than any sleeping pill.” IfsNeedsFeelsBookTurnsSleepTelevisionPillsTurn-onSleeping Pills Book:Merman: an autobiography Source: Merman: an autobiography
“I would do nightclubs and concerts - particularly concerts, which is mostly what I did - and only people who already agreed with me would show up. People weren't going to come and inadvertently turn on their television set and find this offensive stuff coming out.” PeopleShowsTurnsStuffTelevisionConcertsComing OutOffensiveTurn-onNightclubs Author:Tom Lehrer
“I would say my being disheartened has more to do with American culture than anything else. We are becoming a very shallow culture. My goodness, the celebrity ethos has taken over completely. Turn on the television and you see that over and over. There's very little substance. And so, everything gets shorter. Everything is entertainment oriented. Our churches reflect that. A thirty-five minute sermon without a Power Point or video clips is rare these days. That's not true in other countries so much.” LittlesCountryTurnsCultureChurchTakenFiveMinutesTelevisionBecomingGoodnessEntertainmentVideoThese DaysSubstanceThirtyOther CountriesShallowSermonsFive MinutesAmerican CultureTurn-onEthosClipDisheartenedVideo Clips Author:Philip Yancey
“Quite often I'll turn on the television and something like Sound of Music will be on or Victor/Victoria and I might watch a moment or two. But I don't actually sit down and say I'm going to watch one of my movies.” TwoMomentsMightTurnsSoundWatchesTelevisionDown AndTurn-onVictoriaSound Of Music Author:Julie Andrews
“I hope through The L Word to become an honorary member of the gay tribe. I cherish the thought that some young girl or woman somewhere may one night turn on the television and for the first time ever see her life represented - not as an isolated incident but as a multiplicity. Her overwhelming fear may have been that she might never find her tribe, she might never find love and now she knows that they are both out there waiting for her.” KnowsFirstsMayHas BeensMightYoungNightTurnsGirlWaitingTelevisionGayMembersFirst TimeCherishOverwhelmingIsolatedTribesIncidentsOne NightTurn-onFinding LoveMultiplicityHonorary Author:Jennifer Beals
“Most Canadians don't understand the House of Commons. They turn on their televisions, see us yelling at one another, and dismiss us as a bunch of fools.” TurnsHouseTelevisionFoolBunchTurn-onYellingHouse Of Commons Author:Jean Chretien
“But people turn on their televisions. They turn on their televisions and they see what's happening in Iraq. The American people are not stupid. And the one thing they understand, they understand how incredibly mismanaged and bungled this war has been by the civilians in this administration. And - I mean, you can't paper over that, any more than you can paper over Katrina.” PeopleMeanHas BeensWarTurnsOne ThingStupidTelevisionPaperHappeningsIraqAdministrationCiviliansTurn-onKatrinaNot Stupid Author:Joe Biden
“And they like being able to turn on the television day in and day out to see someone that they know and they feel comfortable with and trust hopefully and respect even.” KnowsFeelsAbleTurnsLiteratureTelevisionComfortableHopefullyTurn-on Author:Katie Couric
“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 have a very primitive sense that if I just turn on a radio or the television, that somebody's playing that stuff for me.” IfsTurnsStuffTelevisionRadioPrimitiveTurn-on Author:Marc Maron
“I look in the eyes and I see the heart. As long as it's a human story. I would like to turn on my television and see African American, Hispanic, Asian as well as Caucasian. And I think there are probably more people like me.” PeopleThinkingHumansWellsLooksHeartLongStoriesEyeTurnsTelevisionLike MeAfrican AmericanAsianTurn-onHispanicCaucasian Author:Angela Bassett
“As a child of the 1970s, I couldn't hold a narrative in my head; I was lucky if I could hold a joke in my head, because every time you turn on television or radio, it wipes the slate clean - at least in my case. After I gave up television, I found I could carry longer and longer stories or ideas in my head and put them together until I was carrying an entire short story. That's pretty much when I started writing.” IfsWritingChildrenIdeasStoriesTogetherTurnsFoundCasesTelevisionLuckyJokesCleanRadioNarrativeIf I CouldShort StoryWipeTurn-onGave UpSlate Author:Chuck Palahniuk
“Every day I turn on my television set and I see Newt Gingrich on television, I rejoice.” TurnsTelevisionRejoiceTurn-onNewts Author:Martin Frost
“Depressions, local and larger strikes, boom times, wars, repressions, all impact a life as do epidemics such as AIDS and pollution that may take years off a person's life. We all, whether we like it or not and whether we acknowledge it or not, are impacted by the racial attitudes we carry within us, and experience in some form every time we turn on the television, the radio, go to a movie, read a magazine or a newspaper, or walk down the street.” YearsMayPersonsWarFormTurnsWalksAttitudeStreetsTelevisionImpactRadioStrikesAidsNewspapersLocalsMagazinesAcknowledgePollutionTurn-onRepressionEpidemics Author:Marge Piercy
“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.” TogetherTurnsAsksHappenedStreetsTelevisionFolksStaringTurn-onAutographsWaitress Author:Bennett Cerf
“It is amazing how little effort most people make to improve control of their attention. If reading a book seems too difficult, instead of sharpening concentration we tend to set it aside and instead turn on the television, which not only requires minimal attention, but in fact tends to diffuse what little it commands with choppy editing, commercial interruptions, and generally inane content.” PeopleIfsLittlesBookFactsSeemsTurnsReadingDifficultEffortAttentionTelevisionCommandConcentrationEditingTurn-onInterruptionsSharpening Author:Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
“If you turn on the television, you'll find the mothers of the most obvious criminals that man could ever diagnose, and they all think their sons are innocent. That's simple psychological denial. The reality is too painful to bear, so you just distort it until it's bearable. We all do that to some extent, and it's a common psychological misjudgment that causes terrible problems.” IfsThinkingMenProblemRealityMotherTurnsCausesSimpleCommonTelevisionSonBearsTerriblePainfulObviousCriminalsInnocentPsychologicalDenialTurn-onBearable Author:Charlie Munger
“People got extremely comfortable with being able to turn on their television and see MTV say, "This guy's hot you should buy this record."” PeopleShouldAbleGuyTurnsRecordsTelevisionComfortableHotThis GuyTurn-onMtv Author:David Bowie
“It feels good to turn on the TV and have options, a variety. That's why television is so good.” FeelsTurnsTelevisionTvsFeel GoodVarietyTurn-on Author:Aeriel Miranda
“I think it's an important thing for a Mexican to say, especially now with the rebellion in Chiapas. Mexico has to confront her Indian face, and yet she refuses to do so. When you turn on Mexican television, it's like watching Swedish TV: everyone is blond.” ThinkingImportantFacesTurnsTelevisionTvsImportant ThingsRefuseIndianRebellionMexicoMexicanTurn-onSwedish Author:Richard Rodriguez