Amos And Andy Radio Quotes & Sayings

At home, the radio was a big source and the classic radio programs we would listen to like Amos and Andy and whatever other ones there were. — Paul Smith

There are certain stereotypes that are offensive. Some of them don't worry me, though. For instance, I have always thought that Mammy character in Gone with the Wind was mighty funny. And I just loved "Amos 'n' Andy" on the radio. So you see, I have enough confidence in myself that those things did not bother me. I could laugh. — Annie Elizabeth Delany

Idealists mature badly. If they can't outgrow their idealism, they become hypocrites or blind. — Brent Weeks

I get tired of hearing it's a crummy world and that people are no damned good. What kind of talk is that? I know a place in Payette, Idaho, where a cook and a waitress and a manager put everything they've got into laying a chicken-fried steak on you. — Robert Fulghum

If we emphasized only precision, our meditation might become quite harsh and militant. ( ... ). One thing that is very helpful is to cultivate an overall sense of relaxation while you are doing the meditation. — Pema Chodron

I knew it was all or nothing. — Carl Froch

I think there's a lot of merit in an international economy and global markets, but they're not sufficient because markets don't look after social needs. — George Soros

Anything a man can imagine, another can create — Jules Verne

A theory of creativity is actually just a metaphor. A pool of ideas, a well of memories, a voice. — Jane Smiley

There are a great many people who have a vested interest in maintaining the stupidity of the American public. — Gore Vidal

I want to immerse myself in American magic and dread. — Don DeLillo

That frontier operated as a rough and ready homeostatic device; the more a state pressed its subjects, the fewer subjects it had. The frontier underwrote popular freedom. — James C. Scott

I don't like things to be the same. I like things to evolve. — Kesh

For pluralism, all that we are required to admit as the constitution of reality is what we ourselves find empirically realized in every minimum of finite life. Briefly it is this, that nothing real is absolutely simple, that every smallest bit of experience is a multum in parvo plurally related, that each relation is one aspect, character, or function, way of its being taken, or way of its taking something else. — William James

The media want to maintain their intimate relation to state power. They want to get leaks, they want to get invited to the press conferences. They want to rub shoulders with the Secretary of State, all that kind of business. To do that, you've got to play the game, and playing the game means telling their lies, serving as their disinformation apparatus. — Noam Chomsky

So why does our writing matter, again? they ask.
Because of the spirit, I say. Because of the heart. Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul. When writers make us shake our heads with the exactness of their prose and their truths, and even make us laugh about ourselves or life, our buoyancy is restored. We are given a shot at dancing with, or at least clapping along with, the absurdity of life, instead of being squashed by it over and over again. — Anne Lamott