Ellen Goodman Quotes

For tens of millions of people [television] has become habit-forming, brain-softening, taste-degrading.

I'm always amazed that people will actually choose to sit in front of the television and just be savaged by stuff that belittles their intelligence.

When a child is watching television, he or she is not involved in play, not socializing with other individuals, and most importantly, not receiving feedback as to the actions or consequences of his or her behavior.

I watch too much TV.

I'm a television junkie.

I don't think I miss anything by not watching television.

There's no such thing as 'too much TV,' unless we're all spending more and not watching more.

Television is a very gratifying medium.

I grew up watching tons and tons of television. It was all I would do, especially during summer vacations.

I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book. ANOTHER VERSION I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. ANOTHER VERSION I find television very educational. Every time someone turns it on, I go in the other room and read a book.

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

I'm no prophet and I'm no genius, but I can only tell you what I seem to know. As a fan of television and the movies, I think it's all for the better.

Another activity that can detract us from the proper way is watching television excessively or viewing improper movies. While fine productions on these media are uplifting and entertaining, we need to be very selective in choosing what we see and how much of our time such an activity deserves. Our precious time must not be diverted to the sideline attractions of vulgar language, immoral conduct, pornography, and violence.

wherever the TV glows, there sits someone who isn't reading.

You can, after all, reduce the reasons for watching TV to but two: to be lulled, and to be stimulated. Some people do one sometimes, the other sometimes. Some people do all of one or all of the other.

Television leaves no external scars.

I watch so much television, it's embarrassing.

For perhaps most Americans, TV is an apppliance, not to be used selectively but to be turned on - there's always something to watch.

There is no medical proof that television causes brain damage - at least from over five feet away. In fact, TV is probably the least physically harmful of all the narcotics known to man.

However little television you watch, watch less.

As far as the difference for me between television and movies, I really thrill to the pace of television. As exhausting as it can be - there was actually one day when we never went to bed.

I don't approve of people who watch television, but I am one of them.

It’s not whether children learn from television, it’s what children learn from television... because everything that children see on television is teaching them something.

Television is, to my mind, the most insidious drug that the 20th Century has had to deal with.