Fred Allen Quotes

You turned on the radio and heard all kinds of things.

I'm running a radio station.

Radio is the death and life of Africa.

I could listen to the radio and I had access to books from time to time. Not all the time.

There was no television, so the radio provided you with everything.

I have always loved radio as a medium.

I listen to NPR a lot. I love that.

I don't want to do television. A TV show sitcom? I don't even watch TV.

A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.

I like soundtracks and I like film.

Despite all the technical improvements, it still boils down to a man or a woman and a microphone, playing music, sharing stories, talking about issues - communicating with an audience.

In scoring we have a lot that was not evident in the shooting. The radio is on all the time.

I grew up years ago doing something that unfortunately doesn't hardly exist any more, a medium called Radio.

I have had a lot of experience in broadcasting.

I studied communications, only because I could get my own show on the campus radio station. I never thought of it as a career. Music was always a really passionate hobby - it was like collecting DVDs or stamps.

On TV the people can see it. On radio you've got to create it.

When you're doing a radio show, you can express yourself.

I'm a huge Ira Glass fan; I'm a huge fan of radio in general.

I love theater. I also love radio. I love language.

But I never, never thought of the ministry nor did - of course, television when I was growing up, there was no television. So I didn't know anything about it.

Television today is the stage on which the drama of politics is played out.

Radio and films, and now television, open for us a window onto everything that goes on throughout the world: the events—and the ideas too—of all humanity invade our homes day after day

In this Day the secrets of the earth are laid bare before the eyes of men. The pages of swiftly-appearing newspapers are indeed the mirror of the world. They reflect the deeds and the pursuits of diverse peoples and kindreds. They both reflect them and make them known. They are a mirror endowed with hearing, sight and speech. This is an amazing and potent phenomenon. However, it behooveth the writers thereof to be purged from the promptings of evil passions and desires and to be attired with the raiment of justice and equity. They should enquire into situations as much as possible and ascertain the facts, then set them down in writing.

Misunderstanding is the great enemy of every White House press secretary.

Americans no longer gather in the streets to hear candidates; television is the new focal point of politics.