Amateur Radio Quotes

#1. Love doesn't drop on you unexpectedly; you have to give off signals, sort of like an amateur radio operator.

Helen Gurley Brown

#2. Be content with who you are and where you are, and do whatever you can do to bring to others such contentment, and joy, and understanding that you have managed to find yourself.

Alexander McCall Smith

#3. Isn't it fascinating to think that probably the only laugh that man will ever get in his life is by stripping off and showing his shortcomings?

David Niven

#4. Great companies have high cultures of accountability, it comes with this culture of criticism I was talking about before, and I think our culture is strong on that.

Steve Ballmer

#5. If you don't know about Tumblr then you are not supposed to know about Tumblr. It's like fight club.

John Green

#6. My mind runs I can never catch it even if I got a head start.

Kid Cudi

#7. Joy in the second moment of its arrival is already less keen than in the first, is still fainter in the third, and finishes by coalescing with our normal mental state, just as the circles which the fall of a pebble forms on the surface of water, gradually die away.

Nikolai Gogol

#8. Creative minds are uneven, and the best of fabrics have their dull spots.

H.P. Lovecraft

#9. I tell you not to be timid. I tell you to make the choices, make the mistakes, big, terrible, reckless mistakes, really screw it all up. I tell you it is the only way.

Jandy Nelson

#10. If it weren't for radio programs like 'The George Jarkesy Show,' no one would know about 'The Amateur'.

Edward Klein

#11. Records are very powerful promotional tools to go out and be able to play on the road, but you do have to think about it as a way of sustaining itself at some point.

Lyle Lovett

#12. I ... began my career as a wireless amateur. After 43 years in radio, I do not mind confessing that I am still an amateur. Despite many great achievements in the science of radio and electronics, what we know today is far less than what we have still to learn.

David Sarnoff

#13. Every week, as an 11-year-old kid, I would tune in to what was really the first American Idol-type program, a radio show called 'Major Bowes' Amateur Hour.' The winning group on the evening of September 8, 1935, was called the Hoboken Four, and their spokesman was Frank Sinatra, then aged 19.

Tony Bennett

#14. Schools [are] ... institutions monopolizing the daytimes of childhood.

John Taylor Gatto