Radio Shows Quotes

“Mom sez I like talk radio, teaching, and consulting 'cuz they ensure captive audiences. True or not (let Freudians decide), I'm driven by a "four eyed" mission to inform, instruct, intrigue, and inspire. Moreover, I like interactivity: If you're listening, I'm listening. Talk with me!”
― Lisa Tolliver

“MAKE WAVES WITH ME! My talk's not cheap, but sponsorship is inexpensive and tax-deductible.”
― Lisa Tolliver

“She spent the vestigial hours of the night huddled in a large wing-chair, looking too small for it, her little harmonica-sized tran­sistor radio purring away at her elbow. She kept it on the Paterson station, WPAT, which stayed on all night. There were others that did too, but they were crawling with commercials; this one wasn't. It kept murmuring the melodies of Roberta and Can-Can and My Fair Lady, while the night went by and the world, out there beyond its dial, went by with it. She dozed off finally, her head lolling over like a little girl's propped up asleep in a grown-up's chair.

("Too Nice A Day To Die")”
― Cornell Woolrich, Tonight, Somewhere in New York: The Last Stories and an Unfinished Novel

“One word continues to be used when people talk about Bob Crane’s radio work: genius.”
― Carol M. Ford, Bob Crane The Definitive Biography

“Bob Crane’s advancement to KNX is the stuff of legend.”
― Carol M. Ford, Bob Crane The Definitive Biography

“Life will not give you what you want.life will give you what you deserve.”
― Umar Tariq

“Psssh. This is where you females get in your own way. If a rich woman came up o me today and said, 'Marcus, you handsome devil, let me take you away from all this. A man as fine and smart and wonderful and good in bed as you shouldn't have to work.' Well, I wouldn't say, 'But how will I prove myself as a man if I don't work?' I would say, 'Sign me up! Just let me keep doing my radio show, please.”
― Xóchitl González, Anita de Monte Laughs Last

“Genie understood that everyone would be trapped together inside this crippled city for the foreseeable future--in the snow, in the dark, with no electricity, in below-freezing temperatures. Under those circumstances, she felt 'mass hysteria would have meant total destruction.' (pg. 79)”
― Jon Mooallem, This Is Chance!: The Shaking of an All-American City, a Voice That Held It Together

“America never quite mastered the art of radio theatre, so when I think of radio drama, I think Radio 4 and Radio 4 extra.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Divine Refugee