Amateur Radio Quotes & Sayings

Underpants! Underpants! — Sophie Kinsella

But what I liked in Aberdeen was what I liked generally in Britain: the bread, the fish, the cheese, the flower gardens, the apples. the clouds, the newspapers, the beer, the wollen cloth, the radio programmes, the parks, the Indian restaurants and amateur dramatics, the postal service, the fresh vegetables, the trains, and the modesty and truthfulness of people. — Paul Theroux

I don't know how to stop the atrocities. I don't know how to make people care. But looking into my sister's eyes, we seem to have carved out something between us that none of the madness can touch. Invisible threads. — Lisa Shannon

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

Science taps the power of human understanding to look at the world and figure out how it works. It can't fail without humanity itself failing. Your magic could turn off, and you would hate that, but you would still be you. You would still be alive to regret it. But because science rests upon my human intelligence, it is the power that cannot be removed from me without removing me. Even if the laws of the universe change on me, so that all my knowledge is void, I'll just figure out the new laws, as has been done before. It's not a Muggle thing, it's a human thing, it just refines and trains the power you use every time you look at something you don't understand and ask 'Why? — Eliezer Yudkowsky

Love doesn't drop on you unexpectedly; you have to give off signals, sort of like an amateur radio operator. — Helen Gurley Brown

I want my photographs to say: "Look-there's this thing you haven't seen that you should see." — Emmet Gowin

She stood out like a sunflower in a field of wheat. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

The purity men love is like the mists which envelop the earth, and not like
the azure ether beyond. — Henry David Thoreau

(Kiara sees Carlos' bleeding face)"Carlos! Oh my God, what happened?"
"You still recognize me with a busted-up face. That's a good sign, right? — Simone Elkeles

A God who makes no demands, is the functional equivalent of a God who does not exist. — D. Todd Christofferson

Rakes are more suspicious than honest men. — Samuel Richardson

The paradox of life; I wish to have healthy long life. But no one wants to show the glory of the gray hair. — Lailah Gifty Akita

If you live life, then you become what are. — Dave Matthews

Assume the attitude of prayer, and in time, the attitude will become prayer. — Mercedes Lackey

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

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