“How can you put out a meaningful drama when every fifteen minutes proceedings are interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits with toilet paper? No dramatic art form should be dictated and controlled by men whose training and instincts are cut of an entirely different cloth. The fact remains that these ge…”— Rod Serling, en.wikiquote.org
“...a medium best suited to illumine and dramatize the issues of the times has its product pressed into a mold, painted lily-white, and has its dramatic teeth yanked out one by one.”— Rod Serling, rodserling.com
“Television is very much like the weather: Much can be said of it, but very damn little can be done about it.”— Rod Serling, youtube.com
“We have relationships with these television shows. You ever break up with a show? You watch a bunch of episodes and then you’re like, ‘It’s over. I don’t even know you anymore. I gave up the best nights of my life.'”— Jim Gaffigan, amazon.com
“My friends don’t understand. ‘When do you watch? You have five kids.’ I ignore them. I can’t go to that recital. I’m re-watching West Wing.”— Jim Gaffigan, amazon.com
“The last episode of Gossip Girl aired in 2012, but the show’s continued relevance means that there is talk about revisiting the franchise.”— Josh Duboff, vanityfair.com
“Those are the [moments] that make you feel that reality TV can actually change lives and inspire people.”— Scott Freeman, buzzfeed.com
“Literature has taken a backseat to the television, don’t you think? It really has. We don’t have a culture anymore that favors the creation of writers, or supports them very well. I mean, serious artists. On Broadway, what they want are cheap comedies and musicals and revivals. It’s nearly impossibl…”— Tennessee Williams, theparisreview.org
“I have fallen for a few guys in my life, and I've talked about that: Jim Beam, Jack Daniels... Budweiser... Gin.”— Ellen Degeneres, youtube.com
“'Ellen, what do you whisper to your guests when you're going to commercial?' Ah, I get that a lot, people ask me that. What I do is I give them words of encouragement. I'll lean over and I'll say things like, 'You might wanna step it up, we're on TV.'”— Ellen Degeneres, youtube.com
“Last quarter, Twitter beat Wall Street’s estimates when it came to adding new users, but ad revenue declined year-on-year for the first time since it became a public company.”— Lara O’Reilly, wsj.com
“Why are we finally now in what’s often called a golden age of television, with culturally influential, sophisticated shows that don’t insult our intelligence? It’s not because broadcasters stopped airing schlock. It’s because the audience is more fragmented than ever—thanks to the rise of public bro…”— Brian Bergstein, technologyreview.com
“This isn't the civil rights movement Hannah, It's just me. It's just me.”— Jennifer Konner, Lena Dunham, Chuck Palmer, Matthew Rhys, imdb.com
“They know all your favorite TV shows. They def know better than to disturb you during, say, Tuesdays at 8 p.m.”— Elisa Benson, seventeen.com
“Turn all screens off thirty minutes before bed. It allows your mind to rest. It allows you to process your day. And it actually leads to better sleep.”— Kim Quindlen, thoughtcatalog.com
“There is only one thing on this earth more powerful than evil. And that’s us.”— Buffy Summers, amazon.com