Stations Quotes - Page 31

• We don't have a studio, we don't have a radio station, we don't have anybody breathing down our necks to make a budget. We don't have any benchmarks that we have to hit. Our benchmarks are ones that we have set.

  Nikka Graff Lanzarone

  Breathing, Radio, Necks

  "BWW Interview: The Ensemblist Podcast Returns for a Second Season". Interview with Ashlee Latimer, www.broadwayworld.com. September 4, 2016.

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• Every place has its own challenges. In Canada, we have blessings like grants, but we also have curses in the sense that when you start to do more urban classified music, we no longer have a single urban radio station left.

  Kreesha Turner

  Blessing, Challenges, Radio

  Source: www.realstylenetwork.com

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• It's often considered elitist to say that well maybe voters are uninformed and that they should know more before they cast their votes. It's strange to say that because it's also elitist to say that to run a radio station requires skill or to be a plumber requires skill and background knowledge.

  Jason Brennan

  Running, Skills, Radio

  Source: www.cbc.ca

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• Going into orbit around Earth - where the space station is today, and where the space shuttles and John Glenn and all those folks go-that's three-eighths of an inch above a schoolroom globe, just FYI. That's not very far from Earth. Yes, you are off Earth, but you're not really going anywhere yet. The moon was the only real destination.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Real, Moon, Space

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Now with the international space station generating a bunch of video, and Space X and other companies pursuing private space flight, I think it's on all of our radars much more than it has been since the moonshots. The science of filmmaking is making these visions possible now.

  Jon Spaihts

  Thinking, Space, Vision

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• When you go to Washington and get off at Union Station, as I sometimes do, and see the Capitol building, I get this hopeless feeling that comes over me.

  George Packer

  Feelings, Unions, Hopeless

  "The 'Dangerous, Volatile Game' Trump Plays With The White Working Class". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, listen.sdpb.org. November 3, 2016.

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• People wanted to vote for us but the mechanics of getting the voters to the polling stations we didnt have. We did not have the money most of all .

  Imran Khan

  People, Voters, Mechanic

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• Give me, kind heaven, a private station, a mind serene for contemplation.

  John Gay

  Giving, Heaven, Mind

  'Fables' (1738) 'The Vulture, the Sparrow, and Other Birds' l. 69 Behold the bright original appear. 'A Letter to a Lady' l. 85

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• I saw a sign at a gas station. It said 'help wanted'. There was another sign below it that said 'self service'. So I hired myself. Then I made myself the boss. I gave myself a raise. I paid myself. Then I quit.

  Steven Wright

  Work, Opportunity, Self

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• A moving or movement away from a station
  A waving away from a waving a motion
  Amazement a moment amazing a waving

  Jim Morrison

  Travel, Moving, Movement

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• When I started at the Globe 40 years ago, there were seven newspapers in Boston and now there are only two. There were only three or four television stations in Boston and now there are a dozen.

  Will McDonough

  Two, Boston, Years

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• The anchors now made are contrived so as to sink into the ground as soon as they reach it, and to hold a great strain before they can be loosened or dislodged from their station.

  William Falconer

  Anchors, Made, Strain

  William Falconer (2012). “Falconers Marine Dictionary (1780)”, p.8, BoD – Books on Demand

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• The admiral, or commander in chief of a squadron, being frequently invested with a great charge, on which the fate of a kingdom may depend, ought certainly to be possessed of abilities equal to so important a station and so extensive a command.

  William Falconer

  Fate, Important, May

  William Falconer (2012). “Falconers Marine Dictionary (1780)”, p.3, BoD – Books on Demand

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• NASA will send up a big sun shade that will be in orbit between the earth and sun and deflect 2 or 3 percent of the sunshine back into space. It would be cheaper than the international space station.

  James Lovelock

  Sunshine, Space, Earth

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• In Hawaii, some of the biggest radio stations are reggae. The local bands are heavily influenced by Bob Marley.

  Bruno Mars

  Band, Hawaii, Bob

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• We managed to put together a compilation that had some creativity to it. In the meantime I was listening to the free radio stations and I noticed that during their war coverage they were playing these songs born out of the Vietnam War that were all critical of the soldiers.

  Joni Mitchell

  Song, War, Creativity

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• There was this mountain village in Russia where my music was getting in on some German radio station. I remember this because music used to get up to Saskatchewan from Texas. Late at night after the local station closed down.

  Joni Mitchell

  Night, Russia, Texas

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• If we were to do the Second Coming of Christ in color for a full hour, there would be a considerable number of stations which would decline to carry it on the grounds that a Western or a quiz show would be more profitable.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Color, Aggravation, Numbers

  "Prime Time: The Life of Edward R. Murrow". Book by Alexander Kendrick, 1969.

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• The realities are that, you know, as a black man, you know, Barack can get shot going to the gas station, you know.

  Michelle Obama

  Reality, Men, Black

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• I love hearing my song on the radio the first time, but when it comes on again, I change the station. I already have so much of the spotlight on me. I don't need any more.

  Katy Perry

  Song, Needs, Spotlight

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• The cost of motoring is a massive issue at the moment, there's no question. The price of petrol goes up every time you go to the petrol station.

  Lucy Powell

  Issues, Cost, Moments

  "After election upheaval, politics returns to normal" by Lucy Powell, www.theguardian.com. June 6, 2008.

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• Brands were a by-product of having great products and communicating them well to people. Power stations that generate a lot of electricity probably have a lot of steam coming out of the chimneys. That doesn't mean to say that the engineers stand around working out how to make more steam.

  Hans Snook

  Mean, People, Work Out

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• It is our human need - to circle back to the station of our sorrow.

  Michael Hainey

  Circles, Sorrow, Needs

  Michael Hainey (2014). “After Visiting Friends: A Son's Story”, p.122, Simon and Schuster

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• During that space walk there will be some repositioning of the power so that the arm can be fully controlled by the robotic station that is in the Lab.

  Umberto Guidoni

  Space, Arms, Labs

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• The Internet makes it easier to find good music I would have to say. The radio stations that play the kind of music you were talking about, I don't think me and Curt Smith would be that inclined to listen to. It doesn't really affect us and I certainly don't remember the last time I watched MTV.

  Roland Orzabal

  Thinking, Talking, Mtv

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