We cannot blame the schools alone for the dismal decline in SAT verbal scores.  When our kids come home from school do they pick up a book or do they sit glued to the tube, watching music videos?  Parents, don’t make the mistake of thinking your kid only learns between 9:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m.  ~George Bush

I wish there was a knob on the TV so you could turn up the intelligence.  They got one marked "brightness" but it don’t work, does it?  ~Leo Anthony Gallagher

Technology… is a queer thing.  It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.  ~C.P. Snow, New York Times, 15 March 1971

Television has changed a child from an irresistible force to an immovable object.  ~Author Unknown

Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they’re scraping the top of the barrel.  ~Gore VidalCUL

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.  ~Charles W. Eliot

I suppose I should get a VCR, but the only thing I like about television is its ephemerality.  ~P.J. O’RourkePCR

TV.  If kids are entertained by two letters, imagine the fun they’ll have with twenty-six.  Open your child’s imagination.  Open a book.  ~Author Unknown

I have come to the feeling about television the way I do about hamburgers:  I eat a lot of hamburgers and I don’t remember a single one of them.  ~John Barrow, 1973

Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.  ~Ann Landers

Art is moral passion married to entertainment.  Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.  ~Rita Mae BrownPCR

The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little.  ~Ray Bradbury, The Golden Apples of the Sun

Books – the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity.  ~George SteinerDR

Television was not intended to make human beings vacuous, but it is an emanation of their vacuity.  ~Malcolm MuggeridgeCUL

I have had my television aerials removed.  It is the moral equivalent of a prostate operation.  ~Malcolm Muggeridge

Every time you think television has hit its lowest ebb, a new type program comes along to make you wonder where you thought the ebb was.  ~Art Buchwald, "Adding Insult to Injury," Have I Ever Lied to You?, 1966, p. 80, chapter IV, TS verified July 2002

Television has raised writing to a new low.  ~Samuel Goldwyn

If you came and you found a strange man… teaching your kids to punch each other, or trying to sell them all kinds of products, you’d kick him right out of the house, but here you are; you come in and the TV is on, and you don’t think twice about it.  ~Jerome Singer

Books had instant replay long before televised sports.  ~Bern Williams

To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations – such is a pleasure beyond compare.  ~Kenko Yoshida

There are days when any electrical appliance in the house, including the vacuum cleaner, seems to offer more entertainment possibilities than the TV set.  ~Harriet van HorneCUL

What is being lost is the magic of the word.  I am not an image person.  Imagery belongs to another civilization:  the caveman.  Caveman couldn’t express himself so he put images on walls.  ~Elie Wiesel, 1995

Time has convinced me of one thing.  Television is for appearing on, not looking at.  ~Noel Coward, attributed

If it weren’t for the fact that the TV set and the refrigerator are so far apart, some of us wouldn’t get any exercise at all.  ~Joey Adams

Television:  chewing gum for the eyes.  ~Frank Lloyd Wright