Radio Quotes
1454 Radio quotes by 1121 unique authors
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You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing…
— Albert Einstein
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What are our conductors giving us year after year? Only fresh corpses. Over these beautifully embalmed sonatas, toccatas, symphonies and operas the public dance the…
— Henry Miller
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Certain voices hold this odd pull on our heartstrings. They are like sad oboes or something, something that makes you want to throw all your…
— Jonathan Goldstein
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Man corrupt everything, say Shug. He on your box of grits, in your head, and all over the radio. He try to make you think…
— Alice Walker
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To all those watching tonight from beyond our shores, from parliaments and palaces, to those who are huddled around radios in the forgotten corners of…
— Barack Obama
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I rolled back onto the lawn and pressed my forehead to the ground again and made the noise that Father calls groaning. I make this…
— Mark Haddon
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You ARE Zaphod Beeblebrox?' 'Yeah,' said Zaphod, 'but don't shout it out or they'll all want one.' 'THE Zaphod Beeblebrox?' 'No, just A Zaphod Beeblebrox,…
— Douglas Adams
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Our radio plays rhythm and blues as we pass the joint back and forth in jutjawed silence both looking ahead with big private thoughts now…
— Jack Kerouac
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[The Head of Radio Three] had been ensnared by the Music Director of the college and a Professor of Philosophy. These two were busy explaining…
— Douglas Adams
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Dear America, I suppose we should introduce ourselves: We're South Louisiana...You probably already know that we talk funny and listen to strange music and eat…
— Chris Rose
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Television, radio, and all the sources of amusement and information that surround us in our daily lives are also artificial props. They can give us…
— Mortimer Adler
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And there was that letter from the Bramleys—that really made me feel good. You don’t find people like the Bramleys now; radio, television and the…
— James Herriot
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I didn't want any degrees if all the ill-read literates and radio announcers and pedagogical dummies I knew had them by the peck.
— J D Salinger
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I gather you yellow-skinned men, despite your triumphs in sewage, drinking water, and Olympic gold medals, still don't have democracy. Some politician on the radio…
— Aravind Adiga
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At the very least we want a witness. We can't stand the idea of our own voices falling silent finally, like a radio running down.
— Margaret Atwood
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Anger ... it's a paralyzing emotion ... you can't get anything done. People sort of think it's an interesting, passionate, and igniting feeling — I…
— Toni Morrison
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After a while it occurred to me that between the covers of each of those books lay a boundless universe waiting to be discovered while…
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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And an unstable childhood makes you appreciate calmness and not crave excitement. To spend a Saturday afternoon mopping your kitchen floor while listening to opera…
— Curtis Sittenfeld
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If things go wrong, I'll lead them away. Once it's clear, get back to the car. If you don't see me in five minutes, then…
— Derek Landy
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People sometimes imagine that just because they have access to so many newspapers, radio and TV channels, they will get an infinity of different opinions.…
— Amin Maalouf
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It’s obvious you kids are smart-school and good teachers will do that for you-but wisdom is something altogether different. Wisdom can be gathered in your…
— Andy Andrews
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No one wants to admit we're addicted to music. That's just not possible. No one's addicted to music and television and radio. We just need…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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These stories seem at times to be stories of a long-lost world when the city of New York was still filled with a river light,…
— John Cheever
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Let's take my truck," Jim said as he hit the gravel. "Less noise." And it has a radio, right?" With tragic concentration Adrian started warming…
— J R Ward
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Comic books, movies, radio programmes centered their entertainment around the fact of torture. With the clearest of consciences, with a patriotic intensity, children dreamed, talked,…
— Leonard Cohen
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