Famous Quotes & Sayings

Will Leitch

It's not as if I'm writing anything radical on the Web site - but everyone seems to think that it is, because there's no sense of the structure that everyone is so used to.

Marilyn Monroe

It's not true that I had nothing on. I had the radio on.

It's all about coexistence - video didn't kill the radio star, after all.

They were on the air, and they had been struck by the tornado and the storms before we were, and they were just starting to get on the radio and use it as we activated our sirens. Once our sirens went silent, they could go back to normal.

Moby

What sounds good on the radio is really loud kick drums and loud snare drums, when everything's bombastic and in your face. It's the equivalent of a houseguest who screams all the time.

Kim Wilde

I still tune in to the radio and listen to pop music and enjoy it as much as I ever have.

Iris Dement

Most of the music you hear on the radio today is developed for making money. It doesn't feel true or honest. You can feel it in the music.

Mark Twain

The radical of one century is the conservative of the next.

Muhammad Ali

I have a radar built inside me to avoid punches

Harry Shearer

I'd always loved radio.

Farrah Fawcett

It's much easier to go through something and deal with it without being under a microscope... It was stressful. I was terrified getting the chemo. It's not pleasant. And the radiation is not pleasant.

Fred Allen

Radio is called a medium because it is rare that anything is well done.

Chris Lowe

I feel like the Internet has really freed everything up to an extent, hasn't it? That radio maybe doesn't have quite the power that it had before.

Huey Lewis

In the '80s, the way radio was programmed, if you didn't have a hit record you weren't going to be able to make any more records. That was it, period.

Howard Stern

I'm a believer that satellite radio, whether I'm on it or not, will take off.

Jeff Gordon

I don't think any of us want to be under the radar right here.

Guy Berryman

I'm in love with a lot of things. Some of those things love me back. And some of them don't--and one of them is Radiohead.

Jewel

I don't feel like I've changed as much as radio formats have changed.

Chris Rock

I had always been - everybody kind of likes comedy. I was very interested in comedy, beyond just liking it. I had friends that took apart radios; I wanted to take apart jokes.

Jill Soloway

I'm a naturally open person - some might say radically open.

I had the radio on for three-quarters of the way. When they waved to me that I was in first, I got all dry-mouthed.

Mel Karmazin

You may not like the humor, but that is why every radio has an on-off button.

Eric Hoffer

Radicalism itself ceases to be radical when absorbed mainly in preserving its control over a society or an economy.

Neil Gaiman

It's quiet. No cars. No birds. Nothing.' 'No radio waves,' said the Doctor. 'Not even Radio Four.' 'You can hear radio waves?' 'Of course not. Nobody can hear radio waves,' he said unconvincingly.

Martin Ryle

In 1959 the University recognized our work by appointing me to a new Chair of Radio Astronomy.

Martin Milner

I even played Jack Webb's partner on the radio version of Dragnet for a while.

Mort Sahl

I'm not a liberal, I'm a radical!

Elvis Presley

I didn't know that there were any radio stations in Nova Scotia.

Elaine Paige

Oh, it was awful, and I vowed to myself I would never, ever push myself to the edge that much again. It was really frightening. Because absolutely everything seemed to be impossible to deal with, just little things became major - noise, if someone had a radio on, or even the sound of traffic, or being in someone's company for longer than 10 minutes - I started to find it all too much.

John Hurt

I never quite understand why we watch the news. There doesn't really seem much point watching somebody tell you what the news is when you could quite easily listen to it on the radio.

John Hodgman

I used to enjoy the anonymity of being a literary figure and occasionally a public radio figure.

Geoff Mulgan

Britain is rich in radicalism, and anyone who says that our society has drifted into fatalism and apathy should get out more.

Helen McCrory

I listen to Radio 4 all the time. I didn't go to university, so that's my further education.