David Rodigan Quotes

#1. I'll always be fascinated with radio. Radio allows you to have a one-to-one relationship with the person sharing the music with you. You can also do very many things if you're listening to the radio, things you can't so if you're watching TV or watching a phone.

David Rodigan

#2. Racism towards Muslims is as evil as anti-Semitism, but try to express this simple truth on a partisan Palestinian or Israeli website.

Chris Hedges

#3. It is very difficult to spend "federal (the taxpayers') dollars" so that the intended result is achieved.

Donald Rumsfeld

#4. My heart goes out to DJs who are governed entirely by playlists. Being allowed the freedom of choice, that - for me - is what makes radio special.

David Rodigan

#5. When people say that this kind of fantasy fiction is escapist and evading the real world, well I think that's an evasion. It's actually trying to confront something that most people would rather not confront.

Tom Shippey

#6. Radio has always been pictures of the mind; for me, the essence of radio has always been voices that talk to me and don't patronise me.

David Rodigan

#7. He made her feel like more than the sum of her parts.

Rainbow Rowell

#8. Nothing was more frightening than being manipulated by my own heart.

Jamie McGuire

#9. Music is a treasure and a love and a delight. It clears people's souls and lifts them high.

David Rodigan

#10. I feel sorry for the person who can't get genuinely excited about his work. Not only will he never be satisfied, but he will never achieve anything worthwhile.

Walter Chrysler

#11. Nancy is superstitious.

Michael Reagan

#12. The Peace Corps is a sort of Howard Johnson's on the main drag into maturity.

Paul Theroux

#13. Laws are often made by fools, and even more often by men who fail in equity because they hate equality: but always by men, vain authorities who can resolve nothing.

Michel De Montaigne

#14. But let's face it: Understanding me - I mean, really understanding me and my nutty life - isn't so easy. That's why it's so hard for me to find people I can trust. The truth is, I don't know who I can trust. So mostly I don't trust anybody. Except my mom, Jules. (Most of the time, anyway.)

James Patterson

#15. He who falls in love meets a worse fate than he who leaps from a rock.

Plautus

#16. The joy of being a broadcaster is, if you're still allowed to choose your own music.

David Rodigan