All Bob Edwards Quotes
- When Solomon said there was a time and a place for everything he had not encountered the problem of parking his automobile. Automobile
- The radio was my pal. I was just crazy about it. Crazy
- I wanted to be one of the voices in the box. Box
- I used to listen to the soap operas with my grandmother. Grandmother
- I got to know every format of every station and who was on and what time. Every Format
- I was encouraged to read aloud in class and vocalize. Aloud
- At a tiny station in New Albany, Indiana, which is right across from the river from Louisville, Kentucky, where I grew up. The Louisville stations… Across
- With radio, the listener absorbs everything. Absorb
- In my case, the listener is often in an automobile driving to work. You can concentrate on the road while still getting an audio message… Audio
- Public radio has always been so powerless. Been
- If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes. Anything Done
- A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad. Bad
- Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that. Attend
- Good things just keep happening. Good
- Soon it will be a sin for parents to have a child that carries the heavy burden of genetic disease. Burden
- Any outfit that has to beg its listeners for money is an organization that has to constantly please its listeners or it will dry up… Any
- Between 2 and 5 I'm reading in to find out what's been going on while I've been asleep. Asleep
- But when you see personal artifacts relating to - by genealogy at least - a living human being, it was just more impressive to me… Artifacts
- I go home by noon, and I'm in bed by 6 p.m. I get up at 1 and do it again. Bed
- I think we're doing the right things for the right reasons. We're not doing it to sell products. We're not doing it to be popular.… Depth
- I wake about 1 a.m. I'm in the office by 2 a.m. We're on the air at 5. Air
- I'm a very straight-laced, conservative news kind of guy. Conservative
- I'm still excited at being at a microphone and talking to listeners. I love that. It's the most basic element of what I do and… Basic
- I've never been able to predict the future of anything. Able
- In college, I got interested in news because the world was coming apart. The civil rights movement, the antiwar movement, the women's right movement. That… Ambition