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#1

“Every day's a negotiation and sometimes it's done with guns.”
― Joss Whedon

tags: humour

211 likes

#2

“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
― Groucho Marx

tags: books, humor, reading, television

23093 likes

#3

“So please, oh please, we beg, we pray,
Go throw your TV set away,
And in its place you can install
A lovely bookshelf on the wall.
Then fill the shelves with lots of books.”
― Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

tags: books, humor, television

6844 likes

#4

“If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.”
― John Lennon

2303 likes

#5

“People love a happy ending. So every episode, I will explain once again that I don't like people. And then Mal will shoot someone. Someone we like. And their puppy.”
― Joss Whedon

tags: television, writing

1553 likes

#6

“If you can't run, you crawl. If you can't crawl-- you find someone to carry you.”
― Joss Whedon

tags: inspirational, television, willpower

463 likes

#7

“Watching television is like taking black spray paint to your third eye.”
― Bill Hicks

tags: imagination, intuition, television

446 likes

#8

“On Friday night, I was reading my new book, but my brain got tired, so I decided to watch some television instead.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

tags: friday, funny, reading, television

244 likes

#9

“It's been suggested that if the super-naturalists really had the powers they claim, they'd win the lottery every week. I prefer to point out that they could also win a Nobel Prize for discovering fundamental physical forces hitherto unknown to science. Either way, why are they wasting their talents doing party turns on television?

By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.”
― Richard Dawkins

tags: atheism, good-advice, nobel-prize, open-minded, science, suggestion, television

248 likes

#10

“If television's a babysitter, the Internet is a drunk librarian who won't shut up.”
― Dorothy Gambrell, Cat and Girl Volume I

tags: internet, librarian, library, metaphor, television

228 likes

#11

“If you believe that your thoughts originate inside your brain, do you also believe that television shows are made inside your television set?”
― Warren Ellis

tags: influence, media, representations, responsibility, television, thinking

203 likes

#12

“If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.”
― Erma Bombeck

tags: football, men, sports, television

141 likes

#13

“Do you know we are being led to
Slaughters by placid admirals

& that fat slow generals are getting
Obscene on young blood

Do you know we are ruled by t.v.
”
― Jim Morrison, An American Prayer

147 likes

#14

“It's a beautiful day in this neighborhood,
A beautiful day for a neighbor.
Would you be mine?
Could you be mine?...

It's a neighborly day in this beauty wood,
A neighborly day for a beauty.
Would you be mine?
Could you be mine?...

I've always wanted to have a neighbor just like you.
I've always wanted to live in a neighborhood with you.

So, let's make the most of this beautiful day.
Since we're together we might as well say:
Would you be mine?
Could you be mine?
Won't you be my neighbor?

Won't you please,
Won't you please?
Please won't you be my neighbor?”
― Fred Rogers

tags: childhood, inspirational, love, mister-rogers-neighborhood, television

137 likes

#15

“[T]his readiness to assume the guilt for the threats to our environment is deceptively reassuring: We like to be guilty since, if we are guilty, it all depends on us. We pull the strings of the catastrophe, so we can also save ourselves simply by changing our lives. What is really hard for us (at least in the West) to accept is that we are reduced to the role of a passive observer who sits and watches what our fate will be. To avoid this impotence, we engage in frantic, obsessive activities. We recycle old paper, we buy organic food, we install long-lasting light bulbs—whatever—just so we can be sure that we are doing something. We make our individual contribution like the soccer fan who supports his team in front of a TV screen at home, shouting and jumping from his seat, in the belief that this will somehow influence the game's outcome.”
― Slavoj Žižek

tags: 2010, 2010-eruptions-eyjafjallajokul, 2010-fifa-world-cup, catastrophe, environment, environmentalism, fatalism, fate, football, global-warming, guilt, impotence, organic-food, paper-recycling, reassurance, recycling, television

245 likes

#16

“Most people gaze neither into the past nor the future; they explore neither truth nor lies. They gaze at the television.”
― Radiohead

102 likes

#17

“The essence of capitalism is to turn nature into commodities and commodities into capital. The live green earth is transformed into dead gold bricks, with luxury items for the few and toxic slag heaps for the many. The glittering mansion overlooks a vast sprawl of shanty towns, wherein a desperate, demoralized humanity is kept in line with drugs, television, and armed force.”
― Michael Parenti, Against Empire

tags: capitalism, drugs, humanity, miltary, nature, television

271 likes

#18

“التاريخ يعيد نفسه مرة أو مرتين لكن التليفزيون ألف مرة”
― أنيس منصور, لعلك تضحك

tags: history, television

71 likes

#19

“People are sheep. TV is the shepherd.”
― Jess C. Scott, Literary Heroin (Gluttony): A Twilight Parody

tags: dark-humor, entertainment, herd-mentality, humor, hype, mainstream-media, mass-media, media, mindlessness, pop-culture, sheep, sheep-mentality, sheeple, television

181 likes

#20

“Seeing a murder on television... can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.”
― Alfred Hitchcock

tags: advertisement, media, murder, television

91 likes

#21

“What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.”
― W. H. Auden, The Dyer's Hand and Other Essays

132 likes

#22

“Most people buy the highest quality television sets, only to watch the lowest quality television shows. ”
― Jarod Kintz, At even one penny, this book would be overpriced. In fact, free is too expensive, because you'd still waste time by reading it.

65 likes

#23

“Reading, for me, is like this: consumptive, pleasing, calming, as much as edifying. It's how I feel after a good dinner. That's why I do it so often: It feels wonderful. The book is mind and I insert myself into it, cover it entire, ear my way through every last slash and dot. That's something you can do with a book, unlike television or movies or the Internet. You can eat it, or mark it, like a dog does on a hydrant. ”
― Tara Bray Smith

tags: book, books, internet, marginalia, movies, read, reading, television, writing

56 likes

#24

“The problem with our society is that our values aren’t in the right place. There’s an awful lot of bleeding and naked bodies on prime-time networks, but not nearly enough cable television on public programming.”
― Bauvard, Some Inspiration for the Overenthusiastic

tags: funny, humor, nudity, television, values, violence

49 likes

#25

“Calvin:"It says here that 'religion is the opiate of the masses.'...what do you suppose that means?"
Television: "...it means that Karl Marx hadn't seen anything yet”
― Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes: Sunday Pages, 1985-1995: An Exhibition Catalogue

tags: calvin-and-hobbes, karl-marx, philosophy, television

77 likes

#26

“I haven't had a TV in 10 years, and I really don't miss it. 'Cause it's always so much more fun to be with people than it ever was to be with a television.”
― Chuck Palahniuk

tags: life, television

45 likes

#27

“I'm the idiot box. I'm the TV. I'm the all-seeing eye and the world of the cathode ray. I'm the boob tube. I'm the little shrine the family gathers to adore.'

'You're the television? Or someone in the television?'

'The TV's the altar. I'm what people are sacrificing to.'

'What do they sacrifice?' asked Shadow.

'Their time, mostly,' said Lucy. 'Sometimes each other.' She raised two fingers, blew imaginary gunsmoke from the tips. Then she winked, a big old I Love Lucy wink.

'You're a God?' said Shadow.

Lucy smirked, and took a ladylike puff of her cigarette. 'You could say that,' she said.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

tags: gods, television

55 likes

#28

“An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger. ”
― Dan Rather

tags: elitism, music, scholars, scholarship, snobbery, television

48 likes

#29

“Saturday morning was their unrestricted television time, and they usually took advantage of it to watch a series of cartoon shows that would certainly have been impossible before the discovery of LSD.”
― Jeff Lindsay, Dexter in the Dark

tags: cartoons, humor, lsd, television

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