Adrian Anthony Gill Quotes

Television has done a lot for me, and I can never stay away from it.

I'm a TV junkie.

When I was a boy, there were three influences on children. The school, the family, and the church. Now there is a fourth---television.

Let’s get real. It does make a difference what children see on television.

I am a couch potato!

Television is a passivity.

They grow stiff in the joints. They get in a rut. They go to seed.

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.

For most people, there are only two places in the world. Where they live and their TV set. If a thing happens on television, we have every right to find it fascinating, whatever it is.

I watch so much television, it's embarrassing.

it is a shocking trick for a young person to be always lolling upon a sofa.

Television, while chemically non-invasive, nevertheless is every bit as addicting and physiologically damaging as any other drug.

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

Television is now the dominant factor in the lives of too many American children.

At age 68, I expect to be strapped to the couch with the remote control like Jim Royle.

I don't really go out. I stay in and watch TV.

I, for one, believe TV is something you can do without - it colours the way you look at things and people. It's not the best exposure for children, growing up.

For about four years, all I did was watch television. I suppose my parents should have stopped me.

My daughter thinks that only her mum is on the television. Every time she sees the screen anywhere she's like mummy! Because we don't let her watch the TV.

There is no physical activity. All entertainment is happening in phone. Films can also be seen in laptop, so no one is visiting cinema halls.

I have never been a physically engaged person. Like, I was not an athletic kid. I was the kid who came up with a thousand excuses not to take a gym class. Even now, if I could, I would do all my work from bed.

Because of the increasing rates of obesity, unhealthy eating habits and physical inactivity, we may see the first generation that will be less healthy and have a shorter life expectancy than their parents.

...as absurd and dishonest as claiming that the trouble with computer games is that they stop people watching television.

My mother always told me that any talent is a gift of God and I always believed it. If I quit, I would just live in front of the television and get fat and die pretty soon.

Inactivity is the killer and, remember, it's never too late.