The New Norm

TV: Chewing gum for the eyes. - Frank Lloyd Wright

Reality is something you rise above. - Liza Minnelli

Human kind cannot bear very much reality. - T S Eliot

In television blood is thicker than talent. - Gerald F Lieberman

Love paid a price so hope could become a reality. - Susan Gaddis

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality. - Seneca

Nothing is really real unless it happens on television. - Daniel J. Boorstin

Sometimes reality is too complex. Stories give it form. - Jean Luc Godard

Television is a medium because anything well done is rare. - Fred Allen

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. - Albert Einstein

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality. - Warren G Bennis

Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be. - Jack Welch

Bed is like the womb, only drier and with better TV reception. - Linda Richman

Reality is just a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs. - Lily Tomlin

Television is called a medium because anything good on it is rare. - Fred Allen

When your wife asks what's on TV, dust is not the right answer. - Unknown

TV is simply a place where people go when they get tired of thinking. - Kevin Devitte

I think Les Moonves is the most highly overrated person in television. - Donald Trump

Symptoms, then are in reality nothing but the cry from suffering organs. - Jean-Martin Charcot

So long as there's a jingle in your head, television isn't free. - Jason Love

It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit. - William Makepeace Thackeray

We have art so that we do not die of reality. Reality is too much with us. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Television: a medium. So called because it's neither rare nor well done. - Ernie Kovacs

Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it. - Lloyd Alexander

The times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised. - Marilyn Manson

You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality. - Ayn Rand

I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts. - Orson Welles

I'm not crazy about reality, but it's still the only place to get a decent meal. - Groucho Marx

The essential feature, and necessity of life is to know reality, which means knowing God. - Malcolm Muggeridge

So many people are on television that don't know me, and they're like experts on me. - Donald Trump

Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object. - Laurence J Peter

The reality of professional skateboarding contests is that they're not relevant in our world. - Rob Dyrdek

By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. - Hannah Arendt

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached. - Simone Weil

The last fight was my fault though. My wife asked, "What's on the TV?"
I said, "Dust!" - Red Skelton

If it weren't for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of the television, we'd still be eating frozen radio dinners. - Johnny Carson

Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration. - Niccolo Machiavelli

The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are. - Samuel Johnson

The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality, but at the same time the most intellectually resisted fact. - Malcolm Muggeridge

He who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never be able to change reality, and will never, therefore, make any progress. - Anwar Sadat