Top 8 Quotes & Sayings by Jack Gould

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American journalist Jack Gould.

Last updated on December 21, 2024.

John Ludlow Gould was an American journalist and critic, who wrote commentary about television.

American - Journalist | February 5, 1914 - May 24, 1993

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It's like being called up in the draft. The peculiar joy of hemorrhaging without bleeding starts when the evil little red light glows on the monstrous camera.

Jack Gould

Mr. Presley has no discernible singing ability.

Jack Gould

One does not allow the plumbers to decide the temperature, depth and timing of a bath.

Jack Gould

Mr. Presley has no discernible singing ability . . . For the ear he is an unutterable bore, not nearly so talented as Frank Sinatra back in the latter's rather hysterical days at the Paramount Theater.

Jack Gould

Mr. Presley has no discernible singing ability. His specialty is rhythm songs which he renders in an undistinguished whine; his phrasing, if it can be called that, consists of the stereotyped variations that go with a beginner's aria in a bathroom. For the ear, he is an unutterable bore.

Jack Gould

Commercials on television are similar to sex and taxes; the more talk there is about them, the less likely they are to be curbed.

Jack Gould

Why not pick up the new full-length motion picture at the corner drugstore and then run it through one's home TV receiver?

Jack Gould

There is something supremely reassuring about television; the worst is always yet to come.

Jack Gould