Quotes About Watching Television

#1. I remember watching television when I was younger, and I felt like there were things TV tackled first, and then it would happen to me in real life, and I felt prepared.

Bresha Webb

#2. My first serious girlfriend, when I was 16, was Mormon. I went to her house for 'family home evening,' and I was like, 'Why aren't you people ignoring each other and watching television?'

Trey Parker

#3. If you really think about it, when watching television, you have product placement all the time.

Jay Chiat

#4. This whole thing about reality television to me is really indicative of America saying we're not satisfied just watching television, we want to star in our own TV shows. We want you to discover us and put us in your own TV show, and we want television to be about us, finally.

Steven Spielberg

#5. I learned how to speak English watching television.

Azita Ghanizada

#6. You have a time machine and you use it for ... watching television?"
"Well, I wouldn't use it at all if I could get the hang of the video recorder.

Douglas Adams

#7. I used to write stories a lot because you had to fill your hours some other way than watching television. So my imagination was vivid, and I used to write a lot of stories. I wrote a novel, which I still have, which is so awful.

Robert Osborne

#8. It was found that the more often people report reading books, the more flow experiences they claim to have, while the opposite trend was found for watching television.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#9. Hell no / I ain't going to go / Clean out my cell / And take my tail / To jail / Without bail / Because it's better there eating / Watching television fed / Than in Vietnam with your white folks dead.

Muhammad Ali

#10. McLuhanism and the media have broken the back of the book business; they've freed people from the shame of not reading. They've rationalized becoming stupid and watching television.

Pauline Kael

#11. Watching television requires no skills and develops no skills. That is why there is no such thing as remedial television-watching.

Neil Postman

#12. My friends and I would get up early and take our horses through the national forest. My mom was very free. It was always 'Out of the house!' There was no watching television on weekends.

Anna Torv

#13. I'd like us to deliver a little message to all the men still out there who think it's the '50s, and coming home simply means watching television with a beer.

Patricia Richardson

#14. Viewers can't work or play while watching television; they can't read; they can't be out on the streets, falling in love with the wrong people, learning how to quarrel and compromise with other human beings. In short, they are asocial.

Pete Hamill

#15. I don't think you can read poetry while you're watching television very well.

Edward Hirsch

#16. When you watch television, you never see people watching television. We love television because it brings us a world in which television does not exist.

Barbara Ehrenreich

#17. I stopped watching television like a fiend once I got into college.

Jane Lynch

#18. I liked you better when you had vordo." "You're not suggesting we do it in this tiny closet with two men watching television in the next room, are you?" "It'd be limiting," Ranger said, "but at least you wouldn't have your ass on the horn.

Janet Evanovich

#19. All I wanted to do was go back inside to the library and read a book.I used to spend all my time reading books, or watching television. It was safe. Nobody ever was hurt or teased or looked stupid while reading books or watching television.

Kathryn Magendie

#20. There is a mass of people, we might as well admit, who if they weren't watching television, would be doing absolutely nothing else.

Bennett Cerf

#21. Had Ben grown up in the old world, Ethan would probably have entered his son's bedroom to find him glued to an iPhone. Texting friends. Watching television. Playing video games. Twitter and Facebook. Ethan didn't miss those things.

Anonymous

#22. Amount of time an American child spends watching television, annually: 1,500 hours. Amount of time an American child spends in school, annually: 900 hours.

Peter Strupp

#23. What if I like watching television? What if I don't want to do much else other than read a book? ... What if I'm tired when I get home? What if I don't fill my days with frenetic activity?"
"But one day you might wish you had

Jojo Moyes

#24. I think they need to get a more reliable way of watching television on the laptop. Because I travel so much, if I want to watch my favorite sports team it might not be showing in that place, so I want a reliable way to watch whatever I want to watch on my laptop.

John Legend

#25. If people are watching television by themselves, it makes them part of a community of people laughing.

Barbara Feldon

#26. Chilling out on the bed in your hotel room watching television, while wearing your own pajamas, is sometimes the best part of a vacation.

Laura Marano

#27. The days of holding the audience captive to watching television at times that programmers tell them they have to watch it are coming to an end. It's a new world, where the viewer and fan wants to watch whatever they want to watch, whenever they want to watch it.

Joseph McGinty Nichol

#28. As absurd and dishonest as claiming that the trouble with computer games is that they stop people watching television.

Stephen Fry

#29. You know you're out of shape when you have a heart attack when you're watching television.

Robert Schimmel

#30. I then completely gave up reading newspapers and watching television, which freed up a considerable amount of time (say one hour or more a day, enough time to read more than a hundred additional books per year, which, after a couple of decades, starts mounting).

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#31. Watching television in those days was not the same experience as it is today. After years of listening to radio, we found the black-and-white images mesmerizing.

Annette Funicello

#32. If I eat mindlessly while watching television, reading, or talking with someone else, I can go through an entire meal without tasting the food, without even noticing that I've been eating. The plate is empty but I didn't enjoy the food - I had all of the calories and little of the pleasure.

Dean Ornish

#33. Watching television is like taking black spray paint to your third eye.

Bill Hicks

#34. That's pretty much how we get through our own lives, watching television. Smoking crap. Self-medicating. Redirecting our attention. Jacking off. Denial.

Chuck Palahniuk

#35. Somewhere in the back of their minds, hosts and guests alike know that the dinner party is a source of untold irritation, and that even the dullest evening spent watching television is preferable.

Craig Brown

#36. Gambling is not as destructive as war or as boring as pornography. It is not as immoral as business or as suicidal as watching television. And the percentages are better than religion.

Mario Puzo

#37. Kristina, my wife, and I thought about this one day when the kids were, of course, watching television. And we took a big blanket and put it in the backyard and said, 'Let's go out on our back and look at the sky and call it sky television.' We saw all kinds of things.

Clyde Edgerton

#38. I spend way too much time watching television, going to sports games, going to movies. It struck me that there's an awful lot of data in the public domain for these sectors. The movie industry publishes weekly sales numbers - not many industries do.

Anita Elberse

#39. It is commonly agreed that children spend more hours per year watching television than in the classroom, and far less in actual conversation with their parents.

Paul Weyrich

#40. Whenever I have endured or accomplished some difficult task
such as watching television, going out socially or sleeping
I always look forward to rewarding myself with the small pleasure of getting back to my typewriter and writing something.

Isaac Asimov

#41. An Australian study of more than 12,000 adults estimated that every single hour spent watching television after the age of 25 decreased the viewer's life expectancy by 22 minutes.

Tom Rath

#42. If you can deal with hot emotions, then you can study for the S.A.T. instead of watching television, and you can save more money for retirement. It's not just about marshmallows.

Walter Mischel

#43. Watching television is the mental and emotional equivalent of eating junk food.

Tony Schwartz

#44. You can't tell your kids to read if you're just watching television. They have to see you read. And in that respect, I think it's important to walk the walk. It's a wonderful shared time.

Gary Ross

#45. I grew up in South Africa without a television; there was no television, and the year after I left, television arrived in South Africa, so I have never really acquired a taste for watching television.

Alice Krige

#46. I still remember vividly watching television coverage of the Democratic National Convention in the summer of 1992 (when he was 17) when Bill Clinton got the nomination. That was certainly a part of my growing interest in politics.

Josh Earnest

#47. When a child is watching television, he or she is not involved in play, not socializing with other individuals, and most importantly, not receiving feedback as to the actions or consequences of his or her behavior.

David Perlmutter

#48. When I'm watching television or a movie, I like to see stories that are extraordinary. I don't need it be something that is, 'Well this makes more sense to me because I can see this happening to me, or this happened to me.'

Justin Kirk

#49. The real point of watching television is to forget that you have a brain.

Elizabeth Jane Howard

#50. When you're watching television, you don't want to watch a show where everything just works out. You don't want to see a relationship that's just blossoming and everyone's happy and sunshine and roses all the time. That's also not true in life.

Candice Accola

#51. I don't use the big video screens that a lot of other artists use because personally, I think it's kind of a crutch. I think sometimes it's like watching television as opposed to really getting involved with what is happening onstage and the people in your section.

Eric Church

#52. I was watching television and I saw how you stick your fingers in a person's eyes to slow them down.
Grandma Mazur

Janet Evanovich

#53. Folding the laundry, completing another project at work, or watching television for the next hour doesn't build your writing muscles. It only leaves them flabby.

Rob Bignell, Editor

#54. I don't like watching television too much; it tires me out for some reason. But I saw a fair bit of 'Game of Thrones' because it was so good. I mostly watched episodes that I wasn't in.

Charles Dance

#55. I remember when Martin Luther King was assassinated. I was up early watching television and watched the announcement. I didn't understand what the word 'assassinated' meant.

Henry Rollins

#56. I'm not one of those who thinks there is something inherently bad or inferior about watching television.

George Osborne

#57. Baseball hasn't been the national pastime for many years now - no sport is. The national pastime, like it or not, is watching television.

Bob Greene

#58. I hope you are reading to your children, out loud. That's much better than watching television, much better. They won't get very much out of television except some bad thoughts.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#59. We owe a lot to Thomas Edison-if it wasn't for him, we'd be watching television by candlelight.

Milton Berle

#60. Actually, watching television and surfing the Internet are really excellent practice for being dead.

Chuck Palahniuk

#61. God made a whole beautiful earth and decided to put you in it, to experience all of this beauty. You can't do that watching television all the time.

Donald Miller

#62. Activists are generally doers - rather than watching television and thinking about the world they will put there energies into doing something 'active' to change the (political) situation.

Ben Edwards

#63. Children now log about twenty-two thousand hours watching television by age nineteen, more than twice the time spent in school.3

John C. Maxwell

#64. The mood state Americans are in, on average, when watching television is mildly depressed.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#65. It is a significant acknowledgment that the way people are watching television is changing and the model is quickly changing.

Jeff Zucker

#66. I realise how important it is to use the time I have. I respect people who want to do that by watching television. I happen to want to read books. But I know I can't read all the books or watch all the movies in one lifetime.

Viggo Mortensen

#67. If I hear the word 'retire,' it makes me want to throw up. And then do what? Sit around all day watching television?

Joan Collins

#68. Even if every program were educational and every advertisement bore the seal of approval of the American Dental Association, we would still have a critical problem. It's not just the programs but the act of watching television hour after hour after hour that's destructive.

Ellen Goodman

#69. Without conjuring up fantasies of bygone eras with family games and long, leisurely meals, the question arises: isn't there a better family life available than this dismal, mechanized arrangement of children watching television for however long is allowed them, evening after evening?

Marie Winn

#70. Driving a car versus riding a bike is on par with watching television rather than living your own life." - Bruce MacAlister, Calgary

Silver Bullet

#71. Reading the Gospels, without the personality of Jesus, is like watching television with the sound turned off.

John Eldredge

#72. Web searching and cellphone use both flourish in the wee hours. Before the dawn of the web, I would stay up watching television. But there is something soporific about television: I would often nod off. Not so when I'm online. As technologies expand, these problems may only worsen.

Sendhil Mullainathan

#73. Everyone has a purpose in life. Perhaps yours is watching television.

David Letterman

#74. If you can watch much television, then being dead will be a cinch. Actually watching television and surfing the internet are really excellent practise for being dead.

Chuck Palahniuk

#75. When it came to watching television, Ted was ambidextrous.

Judy Penz Sheluk

#76. Sometimes when I'm watching television and something, an image, will come on that has to do with 9/11 or some of these families telling their stories, or children talking about drawing pictures of airplanes flying into towers, you know, I find myself still choking up.

Ann Richards

#77. After once having made the mistake of watching television news, I had worried for a while about an asteroid hitting the earth and wiping out human civilization. The anchorwoman had said it was not merely possible but probable. At the end of the report, she smiled.

Dean Koontz

#78. I don't think I miss anything by not watching television.

Alexandra Paul

#79. I'm very shy really. I spend a lot of time in my room alone reading or writing or watching television.

Johnny Cash

#80. The freedom to be someone else entirely and be different versions of something. That's what I loved and I loved watching movies and I loved watching television, I loved reading books. That kind of escapism into another world was my favorite thing.

Gwendoline Christie

#81. That was when they suspended the Constitution. They said it would be temporary. There wasn't even any rioting in the streets. People stayed home at night, watching television, looking for some direction. There wasn't even an enemy you could put your finger on.

Margaret Atwood

#82. Disparagement of television is second only to watching television as an American pastime.

George Will

#83. If watching television doesn't hasten death, it surely manages to make death very inviting; for television so shamelessly sentimentalizes and romanticizes death that it makes the living feel they have missed something - just by staying alive.

John Irving

#84. In our lifetime, wouldn't it be sad if we spent more time washing dishes or swatting flies or mowing the yard or watching television than praying for world missions?

Dave Davidson

#85. Only gay bars were full; the heterosexual joints were empty - the heteros massively committed to watching television with their falsely monogamous spouses.

Aleksandar Hemon

#86. If you're watching a comedian on television and he's making a political point, I would say he's gotten too serious.

Norm MacDonald

#87. I think that's the problem with kids now. Everything is manufactured. And then they're sitting there watching the television, where all the work is done for them. Radio made me use my imagination.

Terry Gilliam

#88. Once you start watching a television show that you love you can't stop watching it.

Ludacris

#89. It will be like watching one of her own dreams on television. Some vast and deeply personal insult to any ordinary notion of interiority.
An experience outside culture.

William Gibson

#90. You get to that age where you're watching a lot of television, and who doesn't want to be on television?

Jason Marsden

#91. I grew up watching movies on television and computer screens. They affected me just as powerfully in the small private space.

Rick Alverson

#92. I think it's an important thing for a Mexican to say, especially now with the rebellion in Chiapas. Mexico has to confront her Indian face, and yet she refuses to do so. When you turn on Mexican television, it's like watching Swedish TV: everyone is blond.

Richard Rodriguez

#93. In general, watching children's television is a dark and surreal descent into madness where the characters on the screen talk directly to you.

John Green

#94. Even in Australia I'd say 80 percent of our television was American. I grew up watching Alfred Hitchcock Presents and The Twilight Zone. I used to sit with my mum when I was just nine years old, trying to guess what the twist would be. I love that kind of thing.

Jacki Weaver

#95. As I got older, I never considered that tons of people were watching me on television every week. I give a nod to my parents for keeping me as normal as I could be in an un-normal adult world.

Angela Cartwright

#96. So, I come here to check on you and low and behold you're here. I wasted an entire night in Miranda's backyard when I could've been ratting food in your kitchen and watching the bad ass Chuck Bass on the television screen.

Abbi Glines

#97. My father was sleepless most of his life. So by the age of five, I was awake with him all night long, watching bad television or we'd lie in the same bed, and I'd read my comic books while he read his latest spy or mystery novel.

Sherman Alexie

#98. My first Top of the Pops I didn't want to do. I was terrified. I'd never done television before. Seeing the video afterwards was like watching myself die.

Kate Bush

#99. I've been watching American baseball on television for a long time, but it was only in recent years that, realistically, I've been thinking about playing here.

Hideki Matsui

#100. I don't trust novels with points, do you? If a novel is only about a point, the writer should just say it in as few words as possible so we can take it in and go back to watching 'The Bachelor' on television.

William Lashner