“Conversation like television set on honeymoon… unnecessary.”

— Peter Sellers

As "Mr. Wang" in Murder by Death (1976)
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British film actor, comedian and singer 1925–1980

Ralph Smart

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“The television replaced the sound of conversation that was missing from my grandparents' lives.”

Jeffrey Eugenides book Middlesex

Source: Middlesex

“If you want to get a television today -- I buy thousands of television sets. If I want a television, I would love the buy American-made televisions like they used to have where they had GE and Sylvania and all of the different. Today, it's Samsung, it's LG, it's Sony. We don't make televisions anymore.”

Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America

2010s, 2016, July, This Week Interview (July 30, 2016)

“Please, do not adjust your television set.”

Steve McManaman (1972) English footballer

2010s, 2014 FIFA World Cup, Brazil v. Germany (2014)

“If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.”

John Lennon (1940–1980) English singer and songwriter

As quoted in Guitar Player (1 August 2004), and in "Pax Patter" at ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) http://www.abc.net.au/civics/rights/pax.htm
Variant: When we say "War is over if you want it," we mean that if everyone demanded peace instead of another TV set, we'd have peace.

“I think especially television is a conversation between the writer and the audience, and they're bringing all of their humanity to it. The actors are really just this conduit in the middle, who everybody kind of thinks of like the player, but no, we're really the instrument.”

Penn Badgley (1986) American actor and musician

Source: "Penn Badgley Explores Joe Goldberg's 'Primal' Parenting In You Season 3" in ELLE https://www.elle.com/culture/movies-tv/a37886117/penn-badgley-you-season-3-interview/ (18 October 2021)

“Alliteration the mind - Temple, life is a honeymoon
vernal song on the humble bee's lips,
Alcoholic realized in the mustard flower, as like friend.”

Ravindra Prabhat book Smriti Shesh

Smriti Shesh (Poetry Collection), Kathyaroop Books, 2002.

“If you believe that your thoughts originate inside your brain, do you also believe that television shows are made inside your television set?”

Warren Ellis (1968) English comics and fiction writer

“Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.”

Samuel Beckett (1906–1989) Irish novelist, playwright, and poet

"Samuel Beckett Talks About Beckett" https://archive.vogue.com/article/1969/12/nobel-prize-winner-1969-samuel-beckett-talks-about-beckett, Vogue Magazine, 1969

“That's why they don't play games on paper. They play them inside television sets. Let's go to the highlights.”

Dan Patrick (1956) American sportscaster

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