I didn't watch T.V. from the time I was 18 'til my mid-30s. And then I got a T.V. to watch 'The… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
I never realized before this the emotional power of some really simple, corny tropes: people with top hats, people with batons, confetti… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
Honestly, like, I'm a superfan of the 'New York Times,' but I know nothing about how they put it together, and I… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
I liked the people at Brown, while I really disliked most of the fellow students I had met at Northwestern. — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
There is a feeling, when you listen to radio, that it's one person, and they're talking to you, and you really feel… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
At some point, all comics have to go out and be retail salesmen doing door-to-door. And this idea of somebody who totally… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
The story is a machine for empathy. In contrast to logic or reason, a story is about emotion that gets staged over… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
I was a semiotics major at Brown, and there's this idea that stories are better, books are better, and movies are better… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
The TiVo is really an amazing machine. Like everyone who has one, I totally recommend it. Just as everyone who's married will… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
Semiotics is really interested in the questions like, what keeps you watching something, what keeps you - you know, what keeps you… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
I'm a big Penn & Teller fan. But I myself was never very good; I was a teenage magician who performed at kids' parties.… — Ira Glass Copy Share
I'm in production year round. I work long hours. I have a dog and a wife. There's not a lot of available time for… — Ira Glass Copy Share
I think the thing that I wish somebody would ask me is just to ask about the business side of the radio show. I… — Ira Glass Copy Share
It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of 700 people, the natural tendency is to want… — Ira Glass Copy Share
I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio. When I say something untrue on the air, I mean for… — Ira Glass Copy Share
But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio even, without an urgent question, a burning issue at stake. — Ira Glass Copy Share
I am such a do-goody, people-pleasing kid - or I was - I don't think I've ever been fired, not even from an ice… — Ira Glass Copy Share
In some theoretical way I know that a half-million people hear the show. But in a day-to-day way, there's not much evidence of it. — Ira Glass Copy Share
I'll meet listeners who tell me what a great voice I have. But I don't have a great voice for radio. My voice is… — Ira Glass Copy Share
I remember clearly that when I was little it was explained to me [that] the way that babies were made was that God put… — Ira Glass Copy Share
