Television Influence Quotes

#1. A puck is a hard rubber disk that hockey players strike when they can't hit one another.

Jimmy Cannon

#2. Today, children are watching more and more television, and are bombarded over and over with images and content that have the potential to dramatically influence their behavior.

Tim Murphy

#3. If you believe that your thoughts originate inside your brain, do you also believe that television shows are made inside your television set?

Warren Ellis

#4. Postman is a media analyst and his theory is that television doesn't influence our culture, but that it is our culture and the presidency and anything that relies on television.

Val Kilmer

#5. Ava glanced over at Napoleon, who was walking back toward them. She smirked at Juliet and said, "Sweetie, you are *not* the one.

Jay Fingers

#6. The orchestration of press, radio and television to create a continuous, lasting and total environment renders the influence of propaganda virtually unnoticed precisely because it creates a constant environment.

Jacques Ellul

#7. I definitely acknowledge that 'The Matrix' and Trinity had an influence on female action-oriented characters in television and in film. I think it's awesome.

Carrie-Anne Moss

#8. If I had created reality television I would have had a much greater influence, but then I would have had to KILL MYSELF.

Joss Whedon

#9. And you realize that there's no such thing as an individual, we're just all a collection of each other's influence on each other. Everyone says things to each other, the television, your parents, your friends, that's all we are, is a collection of intermingling ideas as a collective.

Matt Bellamy

#10. We cannot spare our children the influence of harmful values by turning off the television any more than we can keep them home forever or revamp the world before they get there. Merely keeping them in the dark is no protection and, in fact, can make them vulnerable and immature.

Polly Berrien Berends

#11. Television and comic books are, and continue to be, probably the biggest influence in my life. It's the biggest influence on everybody's life.

Gene Simmons

#12. Olympe is not one for affected charades, the way some people in the building are, to prove that because she is a well-brought-up-child-of-leftists-without-prejudices she is conversing with the concierge.

Muriel Barbery

#13. Hey, if I had my choice for social engineering, I'd declare an automatic R-rating for any movie that depicts television commercials. There's a truly dangerous influence on our children.

Marshall Herskovitz

#14. We've come under the influence of television, where in all honesty we can follow a show that could just get cancelled midway through the season and the entire plotline never resolves itself.

Christopher Bollen

#15. She told him television was a bad influence. Probably she was right. Like those white birds he's been seeing outside the window, it flashes its wings and promises whatever you want, even before you knew you wanted it.

Barbara Kingsolver

#16. We must not fail to recognise that television can be a hugely positive influence in children's lives, one of the greatest educators in contemporary society and an increasing influence on all the children followed in 'Child of Our Time.'

Robert Winston

#17. Until MTV, television had not been a huge influence on music. To compete with MTV, the country music moguls felt they had to appeal to the same young audience and do it the way MTV did.

Charley Pride

#18. Television has a satanic influence.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#19. I would like to thank those who spoke boldly against the 'gay marriage float' in the 2014 Rose Parade. Apparently, that vigorous opposition came from perhaps millions of people, and it had a significant influence on how the matter was handled on network and cable television.

James Dobson

#20. 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

#21. The television industry claims they are only reflecting society with their programming and have no influence on behavior. If that is the case then why do businesses spend millions on TV ads that have no influence?

Randall Wright

#22. Every day is one day closer to the dirt, so you got to go hard.

Greg Jackson

#23. A modern revolutionary group, explained Abbie Hoffman, headed for the television station, not the factory.

Mark Kurlansky

#24. Time is the warp and matter the weft of the woven texture of beauty in space, and death is the hurling shuttle.

Annie Dillard