“By the age of six the average child will have completed the basic American education. … From television, the child will have learned how to pick a lock, commit a fairly elaborate bank holdup, prevent wetness all day long, get the laundry twice as white, and kill people with a variety of sophisticated armaments.”
—Russell Baker, columnist and author (b. 14 Aug 1925) .
Television set for Wikipedia userbox icons, or other things. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
television
Jean Baudrillard: Television's perpetual day
Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things. –Jean Baudrillard, sociologist and philosopher (1929-2007)
Jean Baudrillard ~ Soho, London (Photo credit: Robert Croma)
Share this:
David Letterman: Television
English: David Letterman hosting President Barack Obama at Late Show with David Letterman. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
“Everyone has a purpose in life. Perhaps yours is watching television.”
David Letterman
Share this:
Bill Bixby:Turn it OFF
“Parents should watch what their children watch and not use TV as a babysitter. If a show is objectionable they should turn it OFF. They should write the president of the network and tell him they are never going to watch that program again and why. ”
Share this:
Markham Nolan: How to separate fact and fiction online
Related articles
Share this:
Niccolo Machiavelli: Gift of penetration
Niccolo Machiavelli (Photo credit: Robert Scarth)
Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration.
Share this:
Stevie Wonder: Eyes lie…
Salvador (BA) – O Cantor Stevie Wonder fala na abertura da 2ª Conferência de Intelectuais da África e da Diáspora em Salvador. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
“Eyes lie if you ever look into them for the character of the person. ”
—Stevie Wonder.
Related articles
- It’s not a lie if… (danariely.com)
- Do You Lie To Your Spouse About Spending? (npr.org)
- Why So Many of Us Lie, Cheat, and Steal (my.psychologytoday.com)
Share this:
Voltaire: Questions
Voltaire fought intolerance and fanaticism, and was a prominent and very prolific philosopher of the Enlightenment. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
“Judge of a man by his questions rather than by his answers.”
—Voltaire.
Share this:
Oscar Wilde: Friends, acquaintances and enemies
Oscar Wilde, three-quarter length portrait, facing front, seated, leaning forward, left elbow resting on knee, hand to chin, holding walking stick in right hand, wearing coat. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
“I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.”
—Oscar Wilde.
Related articles
- Enemies (jonathanclang.wordpress.com)
Share this:
Ralph Marston: Reality
“Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality. ”
—Ralph Marston.
Related articles
- Really Want It by Ralph Marston (angelabee.wordpress.com)
Share this:
Maori Proverb: Shadows
Turn your face toward the sun and the shadows will fall behind you.
—Maori Proverb
Share this:
Noel Coward: Television
Television is for appearing on – not for looking at. – Noel Coward
Share this:
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr: Moderate giftedness
Moderate giftedness has been made worthless by the printing press and radio and television and satellites and all that. A moderately gifted person who would have been a community treasure a thousand years ago has to give up, has to go into some other line of work, since modern communications put him or her into daily competition with nothing but world’s champions. -Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., novelist (1922-2007)
