Televised Quotes

Don't yield to Satan's lie that you don't have time to study the scriptures.

Choose to take time to study them. Feasting on the word of God each day is more important than sleep, school, work, television shows, video games, or social media. You may need to reorganize your priorities to provide time for the study of the word of God. If so, do it!

As a child growing up in a grey-skied Yorkshire village, I would occasionally happen upon a Bollywood movie on the television. After a few minutes watching a bunch of sari-clad dancers cavorting on a Swiss mountain to tuneless music, I would switch over to some proper drama about housing estates and single mothers.

You will not be able to stay home, brother.

/You will not be able to plug in, turn on and cop out./You will not be able to lose yourself on skag and skip,/Skip out for beer during commercials,/Because the revolution will not be televised.

Many of our own people here in this country do not ask about computers, telephones and television sets. They ask - when will we get a road to our village.

There's nothing on it worthwhile, and we're not going to watch it in this household, and I don't want it in your intellectual diet.

Turning on the television set can turn off the process that transforms children into people... It is primarily through observing, playing, and working with others older and younger than himself that a child discovers both what he can do and who he can become — that he develops both his ability and his identity.

You didn't see me on television, you didn't see news stories about me.

The kind of role that I tried to play was to pick up pieces or put together pieces out of which I hoped organization might come. My theory is, strong people don't need strong leaders.

The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little.

People say that it was degrading for an Olympic champion to run against a horse, but what was I supposed to do? I had four gold medals, but you can't eat four gold medals. There was no television, no big advertising, no endorsements then. Not for a black man, anyway.

It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality. There are more television addicts, more baseball and football addicts, more movie addicts, and certainly more alcohol addicts in this country than there are narcotics addicts.

Perhaps these ancient observatories like Stonehenge perennially impress modern people because modern people have no idea how the Sun, Moon, or stars move. We are too busy watching evening television to care what's going on in the sky.

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

I must say I find television very educational.

The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book. ANOTHER VERSION I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. ANOTHER VERSION I find television very educational. Every time someone turns it on, I go in the other room and read a book.

This is Manchester, we do things differently here.

One of the basic troubles with radio and television news is that both instruments have grown up as an incompatible combination of show business, advertising and news. Each of the three is a rather bizarre and demanding profession. And when you get all three under one roof, the dust never settles.

Cathode-ray tubes are the most important items in a television receiver.

Television has made dictatorship impossible but democracy unbearable.

Be nice to everyone, always smile & appreciate things because it could all be gone tomorrow.

Many of you already read my writings indicating that TV is the new god.

There is a little thing I neglected to mention up until now, television is the major mainstream infiltration for the new satanic religion.

Our culture will become like it was during the medieval times when there truly was a cultural elite. The rest of the people will just watch television, which will be their only frame of reference.

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.

Twin Peaks was special because it was so groundbreaking.

In the early '90s it really changed television a lot. A bunch of weird shows, like Northern Exposure, came on after that.

Where's the church, who took the steeple, Religion's in the hands of some crazy ass people, Television preachers with bad hair and dimples, The God's honest truth is, it's not that simple

Turn off your televisions. Ignore the Newt-Mitt-Rick- Barack reality show. It is as relevant to your life as the gossip on “Jersey Shore.” The real debate, the debate raised by the Occupy movement about inequality, corporate malfeasance, the destruction of the ecosystem, and the security and surveillance state, is the only debate that matters.

The news media's silence, particularly television news, is reprehensible.

If we knew as much about Darfur as we do about Michael Jackson, we might be able to stop these things from continuing.

Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry.

At the University of Maryland, my first year I started off planning to major in art because I was interested in theatre design, stage design or television design.

Life is not just eating, drinking, television and cinema.

..The human mind must be creative, must be self-generating ; it cannot depend on just gadgets to amuse itself.

And I believe that good journalism, good television, can make our world a better place.

I really hate sitcoms on television with canned laughter and stuff.

What really makes me laugh is the real-life stuff. I've got a dry sense of humor.

Beautifully shot, impeccably paced, it was a clear, unrelenting look at the National Trust, its friends and enemies, and it makes you want to burn your passport and beg the Luftwaffe to have another go.

I wasn't campaigning for a role in a Hollywood television series, it was a fluke. So you've got to have a measure of good luck, you really have, being in the right place at the right time.

One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.

I have as much artistic freedom in my television work as I have in my films.