Loretta Young Quotes

Television has the obvious benefits of regularity and intimacy.

Sit down in front of your television set when your station goes on the air and stay there without a book, magazine, newspaper, profit-and-loss sheet or rating book to distract you—and keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off. I can assure you that you will observe a vast wasteland.

Television has been a powerful medium and it has been a huge part of my life at least 15 years.

Television is a very gratifying medium.

Television has an unparalleled reach.

Television wasn't prestigious.

Television: A medium. So called because it's neither rare nor well done.

Television has tremendous power over our lives.

I seriously consider television to be the people's medium.

Television isn't inherently good or bad. You go to a bookstore, there are how many thousands of books, but how many of those do you want? Five? Television's the same way. If you're going to show people stuff, television is the way to go. Words and pictures show things.

Television is more interesting than people. If it were not we should have people standing in the corner of our room.

Television is a service, but it's also a business.

I believe television is going to be the test of the modern world, and that in this new opportunity to see beyond the range of our vision we shall discover either a new and unbearable disturbance of the general peace or a saving radiance in the sky. We shall stand or fall by television — of that I am quite sure.

If it's done right, radio can just be far more important than television.

I skip through the programming to watch the commercials.

Television is simply automated daydreaming.

Television is a medium because anything well done is rare.

Television is such a mediocre medium.

Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry.

The radio for these women is like television is for us today, which is really like looking at the radio.

Television probably has become the most evocative, widely observed signpost we have.

'The Piano' ended up on television. Everything ends up there anyway.

Television and comic books are, and continue to be, probably the biggest influence in my life. It's the biggest influence on everybody's life.

I think television has had a vast, unbelievable impact on us.

Television? The word is half Greek, half Latin. No good can come of it.