Microphone Quotes

134 quotes by 117 authors

Funny is not a color. Being black is only good from the time you get from the curtain to the microphone. — Flip Wilson
Don't start an argument with somebody who has a microphone when you don't. They'll make you look like chopped liver. — Harlan Ellison
A man who has lived in many places is not likely to be deceived by the local errors of his native village; the scholar has… — C.S. Lewis
The table was her stage. The mobile phone was the microphone. And the new moon was the spotlight. That kind of magic only Nana could… — Ai Yazawa
He'd actually done it! He leaned back into the microphone and whispered to the now silent cave: 'Come to the Cabaret! — Paul Cornell
How are we doing, Simon?" she whispered into the small microphone in her collar. "Just about..." Simon started slowly. And then he stopped. "Wow." "What?"… — Ally Carter
CHEERS, CARTER. At least you have the sense to hand me the microphone for important things. Honestly, he drones on and on about his plans… — Rick Riordan
Growing up, I'd already decided I wanted to be a beatnik. A Bohemian poet, I thought. Or a musician. Maybe an artist. I'd dress in… — Charles de Lint
He was a god of rock. He nearly solved all the world's problems with nothing but power chords and anguished cries into a microphone. — Kevin Hearne
You know, every time it comes, every time that light comes on or every time that camera comes on, every time that microphone comes on,… — Bernie Mac
Having a guy on a microphone yelling lines at you is counter to a lot of acting techniques. — Adam McKay
As for radio and movies, I like the movies better, although the work is much harder. The cinema has microphone technique, staging, and glamour all… — Rudy Vallee
There are few things quite so effortlessly enjoyable as watching an eminent person getting in a huff and flouncing out of a television interview, often… — Craig Brown
I do a long sound check. I get there at noon on the day of a show and sit behind the piano and then walk… — John Tesh
I was born with a silver microphone in my mouth, and that was an advantage. My father wrote books and was also a great broadcaster. — Jonathan Dimbleby
You can sell nothing for a mark-up for a while, but only until something starts eating away at it. Now I can go home and… — Michael K. Powell
The way they had the room that I was in set up, there was some sort of sound deadening platform that I had to stand… — Phil Harris
We saw very little of the real Jack Buck behind the microphone. He would touch people in ways that we will never know. Jack was… — Ozzie Smith
And my mother fought hard for civil rights so that instead of a mop, I could hold this microphone. — Julian Castro
When I first started to beatbox on the microphone with the Get Fresh Crew, people were shocked. Some things are just supposed to happen and… — Doug E. Fresh

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