Color Television Quotes

#1. My philosophy, like color television, is all there in black and white.

Graham Chapman

#2. By focusing on such a narrow slice of Nepali life, Ms. Spray and Mr. Velez have ceded any totalizing claim on the truth and instead settled for a perfect incompleteness.

Manohla Dargis

#3. The mountain trembled like an earthquake. Dust flew into the sky. And the rock turned dark red, like the color of blood'.
'How would you know?' Asks Sindhi cap. 'You only have a black and white television'.
'But it's a very good one. You can almost see colours.

Mohsin Hamid

#4. Cultural expectations shade and color the images that parents-to-be form. The baby product ads, showing a woman serenely holding her child, looking blissfully and mysteriously contented, or the television parents, wisely and humorously solving problems, influence parents-to-be.

Ellen Galinsky

#5. Entertainment came out of this thing called a television, and it was gray. Most of the films that we saw at the cinema were black and white. It was a gray world. And music somehow was in color.

Pete Townshend

#6. There are some instances where you may be ahead of us, for example, in the development of the thrust of your rockets for the investigation of outer space; there may be some instances in which we are ahead of you
in color television, for instance.

Richard M. Nixon

#7. I think television is one of the last real bastions of the white beauty standard, but still in many industries the workers can be replaced by someone who's willing to play the game or who looks like the person in charge. And this is a problem for all women, not just women of color.

Jami Floyd

#8. You become really ugly when you become very superficial and self-obsessed.

Annie Lennox

#9. Everything is about color. If you look at magazines and advertising and television, the thing you remember is the color.

Kelly Wearstler

#10. Why does a pair of sunglasses cost more than a 25 inch color television?

Ron White

#11. One of the problems with episodic television of any color is that everything has got to be okay at the end of the episode so it can start again next week.

Peter Capaldi

#12. I wondered how television worked. I thought about how an interior decorator decided on colors and styles. I wondered, when babies tarted learning how to walk, if they didn't know that that couldn't walk.

Cupcake Brown

#13. Now, as we stand three feet apart and stare at each other, I feel the full distance that comes with spending so much time apart, a moment filled with the electricity of a first meeting and the uncertainty of strangers.

Marie Lu

#14. If we were to do the Second Coming of Christ in color for a full hour, there would be a considerable number of stations which would decline to carry it on the grounds that a Western or a quiz show would be more profitable.

Edward R. Murrow

#15. As somebody who has been an executive producer on a television series, I can tell you that increasing director diversity is as simple as hiring more women and more people of color.

Lesli Linka Glatter

#16. I think it's a great time to be a person of color and with talent. And actually, to be a woman as well. Our show is one of the most diverse television shows on television right now.

Nicole Beharie

#17. Everyone always says to me, 'Why aren't there more people of color on television?' I'm like, 'Why don't you ask a bunch of people who aren't putting people of color on television why there aren't more people of color on television?'

Shonda Rhimes

#18. Of two evils, it is perhaps less injurious to society, that good doctrine should be accompanied by a bad life, than that a good life should lend its support to a bad doctrine.

Charles Caleb Colton

#19. Teach people to play new chess, right away. Why do you offer them a black and white television set, when there is a set in color?

Bobby Fischer

#20. The sky above the island was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel - which is to say it was a bright, cheery blue.

Robert J. Sawyer

#21. Up until the middle to late '60s, it was a choice to film in black-and-white or color. But then television became so vital to a film's finance, and television won't show black-and-white. So that killed it off, really.

John Boorman

#22. Color television! Bah, I won't believe it until I see it in black and white.

Samuel Goldwyn

#23. It was an unfortunate coincidence that despite the new television set's perfect rendition of color the first show that came on was all about zebras.

Anonymous

#24. I would never not work on the part without it playing. That's what being an actor is. You use everything that's influenced you to help you get out of yourself or be more creative.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

#25. WE DIE. You will never hear those words spoken in a television ad. Yet this central fact of human existence colors our world and how we perceive ourselves within it.

Christopher Locke

#26. There aren't very many women of color in positions of power, period. Much less on television.

Gina Torres

#27. The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.

William Gibson