Ira Glass Quotes
The radio is good for taking somebody else's experience and making you understand what it would be like. Because when you don't see someone, but you hear them talking - and, uh, that is what radio is all about - it's like when someone is talking from the heart. Everything about it conspires to take you into somebody else's world.
Ira Glass
Quotes to Explore
It's a very Southern thing to be interested in dark stuff.
Karin Slaughter
Bullfights have so much color. Not just the matador but also the bull, the arena, and the public. It's all very festive.
Fernando Botero
In Europe, a writer is supposed to improve up until he's about 75.
Irwin Shaw
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
Mahatma Gandhi
Whenever I have a bad day I just think of these people.
Ozzy Osbourne
Black Sabbath
We think that democracy can change a lot of things, but we're being fooled, because democracy is not the election. We've been taught that democracy is having elections. And it isn't. Elections are the most horrendous aspect of democracy. It's the most mundane, trivial, disappointing, dirty aspect.
Gael Garcia Bernal
Unless you consider yourself some sort of human brand, which I don't, you have to deal with the fact that different people are going to like different aspects of your work. It's not consistent. I am not consistent. But I feel OK with that.
Zadie Smith
If you look at the beginning of this country, when the pilgrims came to this country, the first year they had a communistic experiment. They said, 'OK, we're going to take the land, we're going to work the land together and share in the fruits of our labor.' They almost starved to death. Almost half of them died that first year.
Rafael Cruz
My dad, of course, like a lot of Asian parents, wanted me to be an engineer or doctor and never could understand why I would want to be a lawyer. And then, when I first said I wanted to run for office, he thought that was absolutely insane.
Gary Locke
My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
Tadao Ando
I find theater very lazy and artificial, and then when it's not, it lacks refinement.
Natasha Tsakos
My mother taught me about the power of inspiration and courage, and she did it with a strength and a passion that I wish could be bottled.
Carly Fiorina
Just, you never know what the next day is going to bring. That goes for football, goes for off the field, and I gave up a long time ago trying to predict the future and trying to deal with things I couldn't deal with.
Brett Favre
You can hit as many revolutions as you want, but women are always going to wear uncomfortable shoes that look good.
Gail Collins
Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world.
Earl Warren
The joy of winning is not as dramatic as the losses were, because I expected us to win.
Jack Youngblood
The radio is good for taking somebody else's experience and making you understand what it would be like. Because when you don't see someone, but you hear them talking - and, uh, that is what radio is all about - it's like when someone is talking from the heart. Everything about it conspires to take you into somebody else's world.
Ira Glass
