#watching television

Activists are generally doers - rather than watching television and thinking about the world they will put there energies into doing something 'active' to change the (political) situation. ↗

— Ben Edwards

#active #activists #change #doers #doing

Watching television in those days was not the same experience as it is today. After years of listening to radio, we found the black-and-white images mesmerizing. ↗

— Annette Funicello

#black-and-white #days #experience #found #images

I don't think I miss anything by not watching television. ↗

— Alexandra Paul

#i #miss #television #think #watching

You can't tell your kids to read if you're just watching television. They have to see you read. And in that respect, I think it's important to walk the walk. It's a wonderful shared time. ↗

— Gary Ross

#i think #important #just #kids #read

Sometimes when I'm watching television and something, an image, will come on that has to do with 9/11 or some of these families telling their stories, or children talking about drawing pictures of airplanes flying into towers, you know, I find myself still choking up. ↗

— Ann Richards

#children #choking #come #drawing #families

I'd like us to deliver a little message to all the men still out there who think it's the '50s, and coming home simply means watching television with a beer. ↗

— Patricia Richardson

#coming #coming home #deliver #home #i

We owe a lot to Thomas Edison - if it wasn't for him, we'd be watching television by candlelight. ↗

— Milton Berle

#edison #him #lot #owe #television

Baseball hasn't been the national pastime for many years now - no sport is. The national pastime, like it or not, is watching television. ↗

— Bob Greene

#been #hasn #like #many #national

I don't use the big video screens that a lot of other artists use because personally, I think it's kind of a crutch. I think sometimes it's like watching television as opposed to really getting involved with what is happening onstage and the people in your section. ↗

— Eric Church

#because #big #crutch #getting #happening

Watching television is like taking black spray paint to your third eye. ↗

— Bill Hicks

#eye #like #paint #spray #taking