“It's funny: All my friends back home are always wondering why every television show I'm on is a drama, but all the comedy pilots I did died a slow and painful death.” ShowsHomeWonderComedyTelevisionDramaMy FriendsDiedPainfulPilotsBack HomeTelevision ShowsPainful Death Author:Eric Ladin
“The Olympics is not a race I want to watch on television and think 'I wonder what I could have done if I was there?” IfsThinkingWantDoneRaceWonderWatchesTelevisionOlympics Author:Paula Radcliffe
“Apart from the seemingly magical Internet, life in broad material terms isn't so different from what it was in 1953... The wonders portrayed in 'The Jetsons,' the space-age television cartoon from the 1960s, have not come to pass... Life is better and we have more stuff, but the pace of change has slowed down.” DifferentAgeLife IsStuffTermSpaceWonderTechnologyTelevisionMaterialsInternetBroadsPaceCartoon1960sPace Of Change Author:Tyler Cowen
“I sometimes wonder how we spent leisure time before satellite television and Internet came along…and then I realise that I have spent more than half of my life in the ‘dark ages’!” LifeSometimesAgeTimeDarkHalfWonderTelevisionInternetRealisingLeisureDark AgesSatellitesLeisure Time Author:Arthur C. Clarke
“I think that most technology is positive in the short term, and negative in the long term. I wonder, if somebody looked back at the 20th and 21st centuries a thousand years from now, what their perception of the car would be. Or of television. I wonder if over time, they'll be seen as this thing that drove the culture, but ultimately had more downside than upside.” IfsThinkingYearsLongWould BeCultureTermWonderTechnologyCenturyCarTelevisionThousandPerceptionNegativeLong TermThousand Years21st CenturyShort Term Author:Chuck Klosterman
“In my early thirties I was working in television as a researcher. I was really stuck for a period of five years. I got to TV when I was thirty. I hated being a music writer, and kept wondering why I couldn't be doing the exciting things that my friends were doing in television.” YearsWonderFiveTelevisionTvsPeriodsMy FriendsExcitingStuckHatedThirtyFive YearsResearchersExciting Things Author:Mary Harron
“What I know of Steve Trevor is everything that I learned from 'Wonder Woman,' the television series with Lynda Carter. And I don't remember much. I do remember his uniform, though.” KnowsRememberWonderTelevisionSeriesUniformsCarterWonder Woman Author:Nathan Fillion
“I am against all machines. It's no wonder that so many Americans go on dope when they have no other cultural stimulus than a television.” WonderTelevisionGoes OnMachinesStimulusDope Author:James Purdy
“Energy in itself is a sort of redemption. No wonder we admire Satan. But if the Devil were listless, if he were a pale man in his underwear who watched television by day behind closed venetian blinds - oh if that were the devil I would fear him.” IfsMenEnergyBehindsWonderTelevisionDevilAdmireRedemptionSatanPaleUnderwear Book:A Boy's Own Story: Picador Classic Source: A Boy's Own Story: Picador Classic
“There are times it's the only thing I want and I wonder how I'll ever go back to the world of noise and distraction. Other times, silence allows me to hear what's really going on in my head. Part of the reason we're on our phones or watching television or reading magazines is to give our heads something else to listen to other than our own thoughts.” WorldWantGivingReasonReadingSilenceWonderTelevisionPhonesNoiseMagazinesDistractionWatching TelevisionReading Magazines Author:Eric Lange
“Latin, as we all know, ultimately broke down into Spanish, Italian, French, and so on. One wonders whether there will be an imperial parallel with English breaking down into, shall we say, North American, European, Australian, and so on. On the other hand, there is this immense, inward-driving influence of radio and television that is bringing us all back together. One could say it's a fight between the two: a fight between regionalism and the standardization through communication.” KnowsTwoHandsTogetherFightingWonderInfluenceTelevisionCommunicationRadioDrivingBrokeLatinItalianImmenseInwardBreaking DownParallelsAustralianBack TogetherStandardizationRegionalism Author:William Golding