American Quotes

I wanted to be one of the voices in the box.

I wake about 1 a.m. I'm in the office by 2 a.m. We're on the air at 5.

I used to listen to the soap operas with my grandmother.

I think we're doing the right things for the right reasons. We're not doing it to sell products. We're not doing it to be popular. We're doing it because in our judgment these stories are important to do, and at this length and this much depth.

I got to know every format of every station and who was on and what time.

I go home by noon, and I'm in bed by 6 p.m. I get up at 1 and do it again.

But when you see personal artifacts relating to - by genealogy at least - a living human being, it was just more impressive to me than just about anything I've ever read about slavery before.

Between 2 and 5 I'm reading in to find out what's been going on while I've been asleep.

At a tiny station in New Albany, Indiana, which is right across from the river from Louisville, Kentucky, where I grew up. The Louisville stations were loath to hire beginners, so I had to go across the river.

Any outfit that has to beg its listeners for money is an organization that has to constantly please its listeners or it will dry up and go away. It shouldn't work when you think about it.

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.

Now I know what a statesman is; he's a dead politician. We need more statesmen.

Good things just keep happening.

There's so few people in this town with a conscience.

Shame is an unhappy emotion invented by pietists in order to exploit the human race.

If you still want to kill him, do me a favor and take him outside. Those are new sheets.

I reckon this could mean another 10 million at the box office.

Don't just stand there, idiot. Call a doctor, and then help me find a nose.

Nothing matters but the facts. Without them, the science of criminal investigation is nothing more than a guessing game.

Being thrown out of this place is significantly better than being thrown out of a leper colony.

It's been my experience that every time I think I know where it's at, it's usually somewhere else.

My family had all kinds of complications in relationships. I would like to meet the person who did not. Since when is being absolutely perfect what being a human is? What do we gain from that?

Flying back from New York, the flight attendant said 'God, I wished you were here yesterday, we had a stroke on the plane. I said, if I have a stroke on a plane, I hope the pretend doctor isn't the one on the plane. I want a real doctor.

There's really no point in having children if you're not going to be home enough to father them.

When you talk about changing the rules, that takes time, and it always involves more than just a committee.

The process of receiving information for me is seeing, hearing, and feeling their energy in my frame of reference. That doesn't mean I see the individual, unfortunately.

The bonds of love are what connect us to the other side.

People are people, and they want to know about their own experiences.

My uncle died in 1987. I unfortunately - I saw it happen before it happened, which was really, really hard because I was 16 years old and I thought, like, Well, I'm seeing this. I'm supposed to stop this. And I couldn't.

Information comes through to me in 3 basic ways seen, hearing, and feeling the energy of the person that's crossed over. In which it is a symbolic type of language.