Irony Quote by Patricia Hamill

“Nothing can stop an enemy from picking wireless messages out of the free air - and nothing did.”

— Barbara Tuchman

“You’re saying you would sit in my pub and talk into a wireless, and they would hear it in America?”

— Charles Ayling

“Social media is like a zillion radios all playing at the same time… but who is listening?”

— D.M. Jarrett

“For a moment the radio wavered between stations and I was so busy making myself marvelous.”

— S. Jane Sloat

“We crave connection, but so much of the time we are not alive, neutralized. Who are you when you’re listening to the radio in…

— Russell Brand

“Within two separate but adjacent rooms, we tuned two radios to different stations and went back to our work, having once again reassured each…

— Hope Jahren

“A radio was playing quietly. Nobody was listening. It was there to drown out the silence.”

— Rachel Abbott

“Letting the radio play on without giving it much attention is very different from actively trying to ignore it.”

— Russ Harris

“We all have our own signals we're listening for, or trying not to hear.”

— Lauren Elkin

“I can play the radio.”

— Becky Aikman

“I wish there were a secret signal you could use to communicate: HELLO. I AM OFFICIALLY COOL WITH SILENCE. Not”

— Becky Albertalli

“Sometimes they just sit. Sometimes one turns on a radio and they listen to music, or to the news, but they don’t care about…

— Rachel Kushner