TV quotes

Mental reflectionissomuchmore interesting thanTV it's a shame more people don't switch over to it. They probably think what they hear is unimportant but it never is.

- Robert M(aynard) Pirsig
  Zen and theArt of Motorcycle Maintenance, pt.3, ch.17.

ATV licence is a licence to print money.

- Roy Herbert, 1st BaronThomson of Fleet Thomson
  On being awarded the licence to operate Scottish Television Ltd,19 Jun. Recalled in his memoirs After I Was Sixty (1975).

Why does one never hear of government funding for the preservation and encouragement of comic strips, girlie magazines and TV soap operas? Because these genres still hold the audience they were created to amuse and instruct.

-John Hoyer Updike
  In the NewYork Review of Books,18 Jul.

Brilliant lecturers shouldn't be wasted in lecture rooms: they should appear onTV. We need black market universities, in which people just help each other, and which don't leave out the poor.

-Theodore Zeldin
  Quoted in Christina Hardyment 'Zeldin and the art of human relationships', in OxfordToday, vol.7, no.2, Hilary Issue.