{"quotes":[{"text":"You can't have a decent party for the survivors of a deadly blast without inviting the person who detonated the explosion.","author":"Anthony Rubino Jr.","tags":["advice","etiquitte","melrose-place","soap-opera","tv"],"id":2268,"author_id":"Anthony+Rubino+Jr."},{"text":"If we really exist merely to fulfill God’s plan: then life is a television drama; with God being the scriptwriter, the director, and, the audience.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["audience","director","drama","god","god-s-plan","humor","humour","life","purpose-of-life","religion","scriptwriter","television","tv"],"id":5168,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"Rich people have small TVs, small cars, but big libraries.","author":"Manoj Arora","tags":["cars","finance","financial-freedom","libraries","library","money","rich","television","tv","wealthy"],"id":13530,"author_id":"Manoj+Arora"},{"text":"They intend to make people's very appetites the next weapon of uncountable destruction. They intend that your people will lust themselves into oblivion in front of little boxes of changing light. Addictive light. A light that makes you feel like you live a life, when all you really do is eat what the light tells you to eat and squirt pee and pump poo. And watch the changing light!","author":"Robert Stikmanz","tags":["humor","inspirational","light","lust","science","science-fiction-fantasy","tv"],"id":21231,"author_id":"Robert+Stikmanz"},{"text":"Parents who daily read Robert Lewis Stevenson to their children and surrounds them with blocks, plastic animals, and some cardboard boxes or kitchen pots and pans are going to produce a qualitatively different child from those who spend that time on TV or videos, even if their choices ARE only Winnie the Pooh and Mr. Rogers.","author":"Diane Medved","tags":["books","childhood","read","tv"],"id":24867,"author_id":"Diane+Medved"},{"text":"Jim: Green and red. (pulls on green lever which closes a door)Artie: Very impressive. (stops Jim from pulling the red lever). Uh...Did it ever occur to you that red might mean danger?Jim: For instance?Artie: For instance, red for fire. Fire of explosion.Jim: What would they want to explode?Artie: Those who fool around with their levers.Wild Wild West Season 4Night of the Big Blackmail.","author":"Wild Wild West TV TV","tags":["humorous","tv"],"id":27020,"author_id":"Wild+Wild+West+TV+TV"},{"text":"Our television signals leave this planet and go out into space...The signals spread out from the earth in spherical waves, a little like ripples in a pond. They travel at the speed of light, 186,000 miles a second, and essentially go on forever. The better some other civilizations receivers are, the farther away they could be and still pick up our tv signals. Even we could detect a strong tv transmission from a planet going around the nearest star.' President: 'You mean everything? You mean to say all that crap on television - the car crashes, wrestling, the porno channels, the evening news?","author":"Carl Sagan","tags":["space","televsion","tv"],"id":31999,"author_id":"Carl+Sagan"},{"text":"In previous centuries, the Church was the great controller, dictating morality, stifling free expression and posing as conservator of all great art and music. Instead we have TV, doing just as good a job at dictating fashions, thoughts, attitudes, objectives as did the Church, using many of the same techniques but doing it so palatably that no one notices. Instead of ‘sins’ to keep people in line, we have fears of being judged unacceptable by our peers (by not wearing the right shoes, not drinking the right kind of beer, or wearing the wrong kind of deodorant). Coupled with that fear is imposed insecurity concerning our own identities. All answers and solutions to these fears come through the television, and only through television. Only through exposure to TV can the new sins of alienation and ostracism be absolved.","author":"Anton Szandor LaVey","tags":["church","fashion","media","television","trend","trends","tv"],"id":33266,"author_id":"Anton+Szandor+LaVey"},{"text":"You should've thought of that before becoming a fir.","author":"Ray Bradbury","tags":["burn","radio","read","reading","reading-books","sleep-walking","television","tv"],"id":42368,"author_id":"Ray+Bradbury"},{"text":"In sum, then a conservative tech writer offers a really attractive way of looking at viewer passivity and TV's institutionalization of irony, narcissism, nihilism, stasis. It's not our fault! It's outmoded technology's fault! If TV-dissemination were up to date, it would be impossible for it to 'institutionalize' anything through its demonic 'mass psychology'! Let's let Joe B., the little lonely guy, be his own manipulator or video-bits! Once all experience is finally reduced to marketable image, once the receiving user of user-friendly receivers can choose freely, Americanly, from an Americanly infinite variety of moving images hardly distinguishable from real-life images, and can then choose further just how he wishes to store, enhance, edit, recombine, and present those images to himself, in the privacy of his very own home and skull, TV's ironic, totalitarian grip on the American psychic cajones will be broken!'E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction' (The Review of Contemporary Fiction, 1993).","author":"David Foster Wallace","tags":["irony","passivity","tv"],"id":42508,"author_id":"David+Foster+Wallace"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":100,"pages":10,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}