"I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk."
- Barbara Walters
"When television is good nothing is better. But when television is bad nothing is worse. I invite you to sit down in front of your TV set and keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs ..."
- Newton Minow
"Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other."
- Ann Landers
"Television is a gold goose that lays scrambled eggs and it is futile and probably fatal to beat it for not laying caviar."
- Lee Loevinger
"Television is chewing gum for the eyes."
- Frank Lloyd Wright
"In the age of television image becomes more important than substance."
- S. J. Hayakawa
"Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want."
- Clive Barnes
"Television has a real problem. They have no page two."
- Art Buchwald
"Good heavens television is something you appear on you don't watch."
- Noel Coward
"Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home."
- David Frost