Top 100 Quotes About Tvs
#1. I think most people, no matter their status now, have big screen TVs, because they're the standard TVs now. And so why would you go to the cinema?
Noel Clarke
#2. The book of your revolution sits in the pit of your belly, young Indian. Crap it out, and read. Instead of which, they're all sitting in front of color TVs and watching cricket and shampoo advertisements.
Aravind Adiga
#3. I call TVs 'erasers' because they have not only wiped away the entire human experience to date, but whatever it was they were wetting their pants about only fifteen minutes earlier.
Kurt Vonnegut
#4. I am a Beyonce fan. I'm gonna watch her upcoming documentary because fortunately one of the TVs in our kitchen has closed captioning so I'll be able to understand what she says. You know Beyonce can't talk. She sounds like she has a fifth grade education.
Wendy Williams
#5. I was working my first adult job, a quasi journalistic job, writing content for a website. In the offices, we had banks of TVs, papers, a constant media stream, which was unusual for 2001.
Garth Risk Hallberg
#6. Before VCRs, people used to decorate the tops of their TVs with family photos.
Marshall Thornton
#7. Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.
H.W. Charles
#8. My first car, I got it in an auction at my temple. It was an '86 Volvo that I got for 500 bucks, and then wound up throwing $10,000 into the stereo system and put TVs in the foot rests. It was the most ridiculous Volvo you'd ever seen, but I had never had money before and I was out of my mind.
Shia Labeouf
#9. Shopping malls are liquid TVs for the end of the twentieth century. A whole micro-circuitry of desire, ideology and expenditure for processed bodies drifting through the cyber-space of ultracapitalism.
Arthur Kroker
#10. Let's just say that if you were stealing TVs instead of thoughts, you would have been caught by a half-deaf, mostly blind, fifteen year old dog three robberies ago.
Elizabeth Chandler
#11. People are playing games on their TV, young men are, and people are shopping ... they are not watching their news channels, but they are using their TVs for other things.
Rupert Murdoch
#12. I was born into a very religious family with no TVs and a very strict Episcopal Christian religion. Music was my outlet and more of my therapy than anything, but yeah, it was the one thing in life that I've had, art and music.
DJ Ashba
#13. Old beach houses sometimes don't have TVs, or you don't get cellphone reception.
Jim Rash
#14. The new world lies before her eyes like an opened chest of treasure, a flock of birds over Africa, a thousand TVs all playing at once.
Douglas Coupland
#15. Well, we're about 24 million subscribers today, and that's up from about 15 million a year ago, so it's a very high rate of growth, and that's what's exciting about the business - more and more people are getting smart TVs, they're watching Netflix on their iPads.
Reed Hastings
#16. Ordinary performers have giant TVs. Extraordinary performers have huge libraries.
Robin Sharma
#17. It's hard not to get down on the government when you see dysfunction play out on our TVs every day. Frankly, sometimes at every level of government.
Chuck Todd
#18. Rich men have big libraries.
Poor men have big TVs.
Mark Fox
#19. Not to mention central air-conditioning, an inn-wide stereo system, plasma TVs and iPod docking stations, and L'Occitane toiletries.
Elin Hilderbrand
#20. I cannot get myself interested in video games. I've been given video game players and they just sit there connected to my TVs gathering dust until eventually I unplug them so I can put in another special-region DVD player.
Quentin Tarantino
#21. My husband wanted one of those big-screen TVs for his birthday. So I just moved his chair closer to the one we have already.
Wendy Liebman
#22. Now that we've transitioned to more Smart TVs, where people are broadcasting their cable box, I hope that Geek & Sundry is something that people will click on in the future, knowing that they're going to get content that they love.
Felicia Day
#23. We're chipping away at our capacity for wonder. When hologram TVs eventually go on sale, they'll cost £20,000 and be bought only by those strange, heroic, friendless men who live in flats piled high with giant 80s mobiles and DVD players weighing eight stone.
Peter Baynham
#24. The God-fearing, churchgoing farmers are all gone. Now they all have TVs on their roofs and orgies in their barns. The flux, Fly, man, the flux of time. If everything goes tits up, there's always the farm and the cows ...
Rawi Hage
#25. Actually, 3D is really the most normal thing because it's how those of us with two eyes usually see the world. TVs are the unusual things in 2D!
Shigeru Miyamoto
#26. Once typecast as the indispensable altarpiece of a well-appointed living room, TVs have infected every human environment. The average American household has more television sets than people.
Seth Shostak
#27. There were TVs everywhere. When we weren't on stage, we were watching what America was watching and rooting for each other and our leading lady. That experience was incredible, and I was just enjoying myself.
Laura Benanti
#28. That's why our TVs are brimming with so much hot man-on-pan action. You can't channel surf for long without seeing turkey getting stuffed over and over until they finally cut to the gravy shot.
Stephen Colbert
#29. I think my first big purchase was actually for my mom. She had one of those '90s TVs in her living room that's like a 10x10 brick, so I purchased her a flatscreen for her living room.
Dave Franco
#30. The TV people. I like calling them that. The TV people. And they have TVs for heads and their faces can change when the channels change.
Paul Tremblay
#31. If every violent program in the nation were blipped off the air for 48 hours, and replaced by reruns of the 'Donna Reed Show', there would not be one less death in South Central LA. At most you'd have several more incidents of people shooting out their TVs.
J. Michael Straczynski
#32. Whenever I read statistical reports, I try to imagine my unfortunate contemporary, the Average Person, who, according to these reports, has 0.66 children, 0.032 cars, and 0.046 TVs.
Kato Lomb
#33. By the end of the millenium five men controlled the world's media. And the people rejoiced, because their TVs told them to.
Michael Moore
#34. I don't go crazy buying expensive technology. I'd probably say my laptops and TVs are the most expensive things I've bought.
Joel David Moore
#35. I have a house, with two big plasma-screen TVs, two dogs, a grill, chessboard. I like to keep it low-key: invite friends over, order some Papa John's pizzas and Coors Light, play poker and ping-pong and chill. I'm pretty private.
Jared Padalecki
#36. That's a terrifying prospect for myself, and I'm sure many other people, as well. We leave TVs on in our house. I listen to my record player, constantly, to just hear music. I'm really intrigued by the idea of solitude. I'm excited about that.
Katee Sackhoff
#37. If people would turn their TVs off for half the time, study science and practice an instrument, they'd be virtuosos and have Ph.Ds!
Philippe Kahn
#38. A couple of my teammates have the rare Ford F650 Super Truck, and they're kitted out with everything - even flat-screen TVs for movies and video-game systems in the back.
Ndamukong Suh
#39. If you come on my property, I've got you from the second that you enter on. There's little lasers ... my TVs come on in my room and fall just right on you. So, there's no way to sneak up on me. And I've got a loud dog.
Gary Allan
#40. Rich people have small TVs, small cars, but big libraries.
Manoj Arora
#41. While I was doing 'The Newsroom,' I always had the news on on different networks on different TVs around my house and around my office.
Aaron Sorkin
#42. Successful people have libraries. The rest have big screen TVs
Jim Rohn
#43. When most people turn on their TVs, they don't expect a frank discussion of philosophical ideas in their practical context. Or any context.
David O. Russell
#44. Maybe he had to stop thinking TVs were sending him messages. Because this was a dumb fucking idea.
J.R. Ward
#45. I have recommended cutting the tax on cell phones and TVs for every Florida family so they can save around $43 a year for spending as little as $100 a month on cell phone and TV bills combined.
Rick Scott
#46. At the beginning of 1955 only about 60 percent of American homes had TVs.
Annette Funicello
#47. Ordinary people have big TVs. Extraordinary people have big libraries.
Robin Sharma
#48. I go to this gym full of stunt men. There aren't any TVs or treadmills there. This is a spit-and-sawdust kind of place. It has a lot of great training aids - trampolines and bags and every weapon ever invented to do harm to a human being. If you want to know how to throw a knife, it's great.
Jason Statham
#49. People are going to be seeing me a lot everywhere: TVs, music, movies, festivals. You name it, I'm gonna be there.
AraabMuzik
#50. This was Miami, after all. People come home every day to find their TVs gone, their jewelry and electronics all taken away; their space violated, their possessions rifled, and their dog pregnant.
Jeff Lindsay
#52. The crowds that queued for snacks and knick-knacks, the constant stream of passengers recorded by the closed-circuit TVs, were wondrous proof of the sheer variety of human specimens, except that they were presumed to be identically faithless inside, duty-free in every sense of that word.
Michel Faber
#53. If 'Chicago Fire' goes for a long run, maybe I'll look for a place, but in my line of work, you can't throw your eggs into one basket because you might have to move. I'm not big on 'things,' though, so I don't own TVs, couches or cars because I wouldn't know where to put them.
Taylor Kinney
#54. What I like to do and what I have to do are two separate things. I like to read, swim, watch TV, spend time with my family. But I have to work, so I do that.
Jillian Medoff
#55. Dracula isn't just another vampire show. It's something entirely different that I personally feel I've never seen on American TV before.
Oliver Jackson-Cohen
#56. I really enjoy acting, and whether it's TV or films, I feel lucky to be doing it at all. In the end, I'd love to do films, but I'm not going to work just to do work. I only want to do something that I feel right about.
Amanda Bynes
#57. It feels good to watch TV and know that you're being represented on somebody's network and for certain communities, it feels even better to know that you're being depicted truthfully.
Aeriel Miranda
#58. With movies and TV, storytelling, it's a different medium. I really love it, but I'm one part of many, many pieces of that puzzle and a lot of it is out of my control.
Juliette Lewis
#59. I did grow up in a rough neighborhood in Portland, which is an abstract concept for anybody who's rolled through Portland because now it looks like a TV set, literally.
Esperanza Spalding
#60. I love movies to death. I spent my entire youth in front of a TV watching old movies.
Amy Heckerling
#61. 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.
Mary Harron
#62. You're just always looking for something new. That's why a lot of people bounce between TV and movies. You have the ability to try something else.
Jon Turteltaub
#63. You don't have to own a TV network to go out and do a cool show.
Bill Gates
#64. A lot of characters now on TV have moved into being anti-heroes, but I wanted to be the hero.
Kieran Bew
#65. Launching a new TV show is probably one of the most difficult things that a writer can do.
George Meyer
#66. I was playing the game where I was going to be a great TV or film writer some day and there was nothing else that I thought about, including other people.
Dan Harmon
#67. TV and comics and movies are what you think about when you think about geek, but people can be a geek about anything.
Felicia Day
#68. The public has yet to see TV as TV. Broadcasters have no awareness of its potential. The movie people are just beginning to get a grasp on film.
Marshall McLuhan
#69. When I started in film, I was living and working in Asia, and when we did films there, it was so fast. It was much like TV.
Maggie Q
#70. It feels good to turn on the TV and have options, a variety. That's why television is so good.
Aeriel Miranda
#71. You can always tell a detective on TV. He never takes his hat off.
Raymond Chandler
#72. On radio, you're an artist. On TV, you're a servant.
Red Barber
#73. If you're someone who's making film or TV or music, or any kind of art form now, there's a billion outlets and they all have an opinion.
Andy Samberg
#74. A TV show can't hold people and institutions to account like good journalism can.
David Simon
#75. There's a great freedom you get when you're making TV that you don't get when you're doing film.
Kieran Bew
#76. I love the United States. I have applied for citizenship. I want to take the oath of allegiance on TV.
Craig Ferguson
#77. The brain is like a TV set; when it goes blank, it's a good idea to turn off the sound.
Sam Ewing
#78. Where I grew up, acting wasn't really accessible. I was just playing sports. But, I did watch a lot of TV. I watched a lot of Clint Eastwood movies on TV and had this fantasy of being like him when I grew up.
Bailey Chase
#79. TV is a very sensitive thing. If you're not happy with what you're doing, I don't think you should do it because you will do it for awhile.
Bill Skarsgard
#80. How we spend our time verifies what we value most: TV, the Internet, or God's Word?
Randy Alcorn
#81. People ultimately get what they deserve on TV. What people end up watching is what the advertising end up glomming onto and promoting.
Adrian Pasdar
#82. TV shapes thought as surely as language shapes it.
Jennifer Stone
#83. I'm not a believer of the "perfect world" TV tries to feed us.
Marilyn Manson
#84. Acting is what I love to do.I understand the differences between the different formats. But I enjoy whether it be film, TV or in the theater.
Carter Jenkins
#85. If you don't like how we play, then turn off the tv.
Sergio Ramos
#86. Bush told me, he doesn't watch TV ... though it's untrue that he doesn't read the newspapers.
Robert Draper
#87. You don't realize how little accuracy there is in network TV reporting until they cover a story in your hometown.
Robert Breault
#88. When you're recording a TV show, you really feel like you're in a bubble.
Judy Greer
#89. Somewhere around the turn of the century, it stopped being hip to say you never watched TV. Adults are much more likely to find something to engage them on television than they are at the local multiplex. Edges are being cut on television all the time, but at the movies only now and then.
Tom Shales
#90. I wouldn't do the 'Magic Hour' again, but I would do TV again. The 'Magic Hour' is not me. Anything I would do, I would have to be me. That is how it would work.
Magic Johnson
#92. The problem is that people love music and they love television, but people don't love music on TV.
John Fugelsang
#93. TV cameras seem to add ten pounds to me. So I make it a policy never to eat TV cameras.
Kitty Carlisle
#94. If more women would watch women's sports on TV it would urge [TV] executives to put more on.
Beth Mowins
#95. You can't be someone you're not on TV. You can in movies, but not on TV because you can't hide.
Bruno Heller
#96. Before social media, we shouted at our TV sets.
Shel Israel
#98. Access to high quality video content
essentially TV programming
has never been better than today
Lloyd Braun
#99. TV's sameness has destroyed many things, such as the American urge toward independent thought.
Bennett Cerf
#100. A pastor can teach you on TV, but he can't pastor you on TV. There's so much to gain by belonging to a church.
Chris Oyakhilome
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