Television Watching Quotations

Before I was shot, I always thought that I was more half-there than all-there - I always suspected that I was watching TV instead of living life. Right when I was being shot and ever since, I knew that I was watching television.

Reading not only enlarges and challenges the mind; it also engages and exercises the brain. Today's youth who sits mesmerized by a television screen is not going to be tomorrow's leader. Television watching is passive. Reading is active.

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

I was always singing and dancing for my mother when I wasn't glued to the television watching I Love Lucy or the Carol Burnett Show.

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

Television watching does reduce reading and often encroaches on homework. Much of it is admittedly the intellectual equivalent of junk food. But in some respects, such as its use of standard written English, television watching is acculturative.

If you read a lot of books you are considered well read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you're not considered well viewed.