Quotes About Television In The 1950s

#1. The idea of a tax on the ownership of a television belongs in the 1950s. Why not tax people for owning a washing machine to fund the manufacture of Persil?

Jeremy Paxman

#2. Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.

Herodotus

#3. The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough.

Germaine Greer

#4. I had no television when I was little, just a stack of old, beat-up comics from the 1950s and 1960s.

Daniel Clowes

#5. In the 1950s we use to feel that television was taking away our comic readership; with today's exciting, powerfully visual movies I have to wonder about their effect on the kids' loyalty to the comic book medium all over again.

Joe Simon

#6. Manchester United have, since 1991, conquered Europe about as successfully as Head and Shoulders has conquered dandruff

Martin Samuel

#7. When television captured the popular imagination of the 1950s, a rash of movies satirized Hollywood while also mythologizing it.

Steve Erickson

#8. For example, it's only about 20 years ago the people in that community would have got telephone lines, and it would be only about in the 1950s that electricity came to that part of the world. Television wouldn't have come till 1970.

John McGahern

#9. I've always wanted to be accepted by country music fans - without lying.

Jennifer Warnes

#10. Usually in a battle sequence when a bomb is going off, you forget you're acting.

Charlie Sheen

#11. Nothing but trouble outside my head; nothing but miracles inside it.

Salman Rushdie

#12. Back in the 1950s and '60s, J. M. Barrie's 'Peter Pan' - starring Mary Martin and Cyril Ritchard - was regularly aired on network television during the Christmas season. I must have seen it four or five times and remember, in particular, Ritchard's gloriously camp interpretation of Captain Hook.

Michael Dirda

#13. No matter how much programming improves, however, media savants tend to see the medium living out numbered days. It's feared that the Internet will do to TV what TV did to the movies in the 1950s. But instead of panicking, the networks are finding ways to co-opt the Web.

Tom Shales

#14. I've always had a tomboy quality to me that I embrace and don't run away from. At the same time I'm a real girlie-girl.

Julianna Margulies

#15. You know why doctors slap babies on the bottom when they're born? So the dicks fall off the smart ones."
He laughed. "You know why women don't have dicks? So they can stand closer to the kitchen sink.

Barbara Elsborg