Television proverbs

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◆ If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.

- John Lennon99

◆ People love a happy ending. So every episode, I will explain once again that I don't like people. And then Mal will shoot someone. Someone we like. And their puppy.

- Joss Whedon99

◆ If you can't run, you crawl. If you can't crawl-- you find someone to carry you.

- Joss Whedon99

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

- Bill Hicks99

◆ On Friday night, I was reading my new book, but my brain got tired, so I decided to watch some television instead.

- Stephen Chbosky99

◆ Every day's a negotiation and sometimes it's done with guns.

- Joss Whedon99

◆ If television's a babysitter, the Internet is a drunk librarian who won't shut up.

- Dorothy Gambrell99

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

- Warren Ellis99

◆ If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.

- Erma Bombeck99

◆ The essence of capitalism is to turn nature into commodities and commodities into capital. The live green earth is transformed into dead gold bricks, with luxury items for the few and toxic slag heaps for the many. The glittering mansion overlooks a vast sprawl of shanty towns, wherein a desperate, demoralized humanity is kept in line with drugs, television, and armed force.

- Michael Parenti99

◆ Most people gaze neither into the past nor the future; they explore neither truth nor lies. They gaze at the television.

- Radiohead99

◆ People are sheep. TV is the shepherd.

- Jess C. Scott99

◆ 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 Hitchcock99

◆ What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.

- W.H. Auden99

◆ Most people buy the highest quality television sets, only to watch the lowest quality television shows.?

- Jarod Kintz99