Quotes about Television
Apathy is passionless living. It is sitting in front of the television night after night and living your life from one moment of entertainment to the next. It is the inability to be shocked into action by the steady-state lostness and suffering of the world. It is the emptiness that comes from thinking of godliness as the avoidance of doing bad things instead of the aggressive pursuit of doing good things.
- John Piper
The entire life and work of Jesus is one great argument why we should listen to his word. Page after page of the New Testament Gospels pile up reasons to turn off the television and listen to Jesus.
- John Piper
I think reality television has made the fashion industry and the beauty industry, any industry - frankly, just life - it has made life seem much different than it really is.
- Emily Weiss
I believe that reality TV should be called 'not reality' TV; it's fiction.
- Hill Harper
I love Lucille Ball. But you don't call that Shakespeare. It's just entertainment, you know. And if you like that, then go have a ball, have fun.
- Butch Trucks
When we worked on 'Girls,' we've had some really meaningful dialogue with our fans and with critics and really learned a lot of things. Like, on the question of diversity, we heard people, and we responded, which is very different from, like, 'Hey fatty, what are you doing on TV?' And that's what we're trying to avoid.
- Jennifer Konner
Prime-time network television has become an island without religion in an ever-more-religious America.
- Ben Stein
I hope people'll find out pretty quickly that the guy they saw for 10 years was my sense of humor the whole time.
- Stephen Colbert
Television is a performance, but apps actually reflect thought processes.
- David Starkey
Finally, the complexities of black relationships are being portrayed in television and film.
- Lisa Nicole Carson
I'm hooked on Glenn Close in 'Damages.'
- Carol Burnett
'Badalte Rishton ki Daastan' has enough masala to keep the audiences hooked from day one. It is a proper family drama.
- Sanjeeda Sheikh