Jeff Nichols Quotes

I'm a believer that satellite radio, whether I'm on it or not, will take off.

Tom Snyder was born to broadcast. He loved television and it loved him back. In that, he was a member of a vanishing breed, especially as narrowcasting displaces broadcasting, 'online' replaces 'on the air,' and any Tom, Dick or Mary can be monarch of a desktop domain, uplinking themselves to satellites in space.

I use Shazam all the time.

The Federal Communications Commission licensed satellite radio to be a national-only radio service.

Sirius and XM went on air in 2001. It's taken 14 years for that to be a real business. It took them combining to be a real business.

And extracting one molecule's signature in spectral analysis from the rest of the signatures is hard work, sort of like picking out the sound of your toddler's voice in a roomful of screaming children during playtime. It's hard, but you can do it.

A god who is capable of sending intelligible signals to millions of people simultaneously, and of receiving messages from all of them simultaneously, cannot be, whatever else he might be, simple. Such Bandwidth!

Then you don't know. You can't know what it feels like to meet a person and suddenly know without a doubt that the whole purpose of your life so far-every choice you made, every twist of fate along the way-was just a journey to get you to that person. My life started when I met Clea. Every minute without her is just killing time until we can be together again.

We're meant to be friends but you never tell me anything.

We were all heading for each other on a collision course, no matter what. Maybe some people are just meant to be in the same story.

Hear me when I say I believe nothings gonna change destiny. Whatevers meant to be will work out perfectly.

Life is meant to be lived.

I put a lot of work into my lyrics. Not all my stuff is meant to be scrutinized, though.

Daniel?" "Yes." "Did you ever think we were meant not to be together?" "No. We are meant to be together. We are just meant to want it very badly.

I'm sure we're gonna meet some bumps in the road, but if it's meant to be it will happen.

You are meant to be here. There are no coincidences. It's all happening the way it was meant to be.

Here at last is the thing I was made for.

Children, as well as grown-ups, in their individual, glorified, drudgery-proof homes of Labrador, the tropics, the Orient, or where you will, to which they can pass with pleasure and expedition by means of ever-improving transportation, will be able to tune in their television and radio to the moving picture lecture of, let us say, President Lowell of Harvard; the professor of Mathematics of Oxford; of the doctor of Indian antiquities of Delhi, etc.

I really do believe that there's no such thing as coincidence. People come into our lives for a reason.

A free market was never meant to be a free licence to take whatever you can get, however you can get it.

It's funny. Maria Elena and I, we are meant for each other and not meant for each other, it's a contradiction.

The way I see it," she continued, "is that some things are just meant to be the way they are.

For a smart material to be able to send out a more complex signal it needs to be nonlinear. If you hit a tuning fork twice as hard it will ring twice as loud but still at the same frequency. That's a linear response. If you hit a person twice as hard they're unlikely just to shout twice as loud. That property lets you learn more about the person than the tuning fork.

Sometimes what we deem a failure at the time it happens actually serves to foster a change within us that creates an even greater success down the road.