Television

If television encouraged us to work as much as it encourages us to do everything else, we could better afford to buy more of everything it advertises.
- Cullen Hightower

Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
- Ernie Kovacs

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set I go into the other room and read a book.
- Julius Henry "Groucho" Marx, 1890 - 1977

All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching?
- Nicholas Johnson

Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?
- Samuel Goldwyn, 1882 - 1974

Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
- Alfred Hitchcock, 1899 - 1980