Listenership Survey Quotes

#1. People have to understand that they can reject technology. They can turn off their cell phone. They can stop looking at their e-mail. It's there if they want it. It's not being forced on them.

Esther Dyson

#2. I've never met a couple yet who, when they were walking down the aisle, said, 'What we want is three years of happiness, two years of [torment], a messy divorce and 15 years of fighting over custody of the kids.'

Wade Horn

#3. We are very keen to disapprove.

Alexander McCall Smith

#4. I raised my hand to hit her. She didn't flinch only stared into my eyes like I dare you to. I never physically abused Veronica but she knew how to take me there. Watching the arrogant smile spread across her face, pissed me off.

K.C. Blaze

#5. Peter gazed at the destruction. It was the cities that always turned his thoughts to what the world had once been. The buildings and houses, the cars and streets: all had once teemed with people who had gone about their lives knowing nothing of the future, that one day history would stop.

Justin Cronin

#6. Dostoevsky was my literary idol for a long time.

Janet Fitch

#7. We already have a professor who's using an online social network of MIT alums to help educate students in programming. Just imagine expanding that in Facebook-fashion to tens or hundreds of millions of people around the world.

Anant Agarwal

#8. We need to be able to control - erm, guide the masses that can't help control themselves.

Brad McKinniss

#9. Imagine that you are in control of your life. Now, the question is: Why do you have to imagine this?

Ernie J Zelinski

#10. A person who's only suffering can't write a poem. There are choices to be made, and you need to be objective.

Edward Hirsch

#11. You may not able to hear the song of your heart but the universe can.

Debasish Mridha

#12. Jazz took too much discipline. You have to come in at the right place, which is different than me singing the blues, where I can sing, 'Oh, baby,' if there's a pause in the melody. With jazz, you better leave that space open, or put in something real cool.

Etta James