Antenna Quotes

• Comedians are never really on vacation because you're always at attention... that antenna is always out there.

  Bob Newhart

  Vacation, Comedian, Attention

  "Bob Newhart Set For Las Vegas Show". Interview with Scott Gulbransen, states.aarp.org. November 3, 2016.

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• I am like a TV antenna. I catch everything that is in the air, and then I do it my way.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Air, Way, Tvs

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• Your heart has a powerful little antenna and its vibrations can be felt throughout the universe.

  Suzy Kassem

  Powerful, Heart, Littles

  "Rise Up and Salute the Sun". Book by Suzy Kassem, 2010.

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• My life's experiences, I've always had, my uncle used to call it antenna. I know what's going to happen oftentimes before it happened when it's involving me

  Terrence Howard

  Uncles, Used, Happened

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• The artist is the antenna of the race.

  Ezra Pound

  Art, Artist, Race

  Ezra Pound, Timothy Materer (1985). “Pound/Lewis: The Letters of Ezra Pound and Wyndham Lewis, the Correspondence of Ezra Pound”, p.63, New Directions Publishing

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• Good teachers realise that the students are the antenna; they are sensing things that the teachers don't yet sense.

  Brian Eno

  Teacher, Students, Realising

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• The same big TV antenna dwarfed each roof, as though life here could only be bearable if lived elsewhere in the imagination.

  Gloria Steinem

  Imagination, Television, Tvs

  Gloria Steinem (2012). “Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem”, p.132, Open Road Media

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• Sometimes I think of writing as becoming this antenna that picks up the vibrations all around me in order to find out how and where next I'll be steered.

  Gregory Allen Howard

  Writing, Thinking, Order

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• The voice of wisdom is inherent within us and willing to guide us when we stop to listen. Of course, there are times when we feel we've been still as stone, and the still, small voice is still too quiet to hear. When this happens, the challenge is to practice quieting your mind anyway. Stopping and asking, quieting and listening, trusting and waiting. Waiting is difficult but worth the effort because a quiet, uncluttered mind is a natural antenna for whispers of wisdom from within.

  Sue Thoele

  Wisdom, Practice, Voice

  Sue Patton Thoele (2008). “The Mindful Woman: Gentle Practices for Restoring Calm, Finding Balance, and Opening Your Heart”, p.97, New Harbinger Publications

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• I think when you practice photography or observation, you're on high alert. You polish up your antenna and stick up your head, and you're out there. You're receptive, appreciative of details. It heightens reality. You're trying to step into your alertness.

  Debra Granik

  Photography, Reality, Thinking

  "Debra Granik on "poverty porn," self-worth, and her new film, Stray Dog". Interview with Sam Fragoso, film.avclub.com. July 11, 2015.

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• You might be a redneck if the antenna on your truck is a danger to low flying airplanes.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Airplane, Redneck, Flying

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• Apparently, there's something hinky about the new iPhones. They're not hooked up right. ... There's a problem with the antenna. They don't like to be held - like my ex-wife.

  David Letterman

  Iphone, Wife, Problem

  "Apple's iPhone briefing is underway" by Doug Gross, www.cnn.com. July 16, 2010.

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• If you can make a little painting for the ears with a few words, well, I like words; I like cutting them up and finding different ways of saying the same thing... I get into a spell, and it all comes easy. I don't labor over it. I go inside the song, I think you make yourself an antenna for songs, and songs want to be around you. And then they bring other songs along, and then they're all sitting around, and they're drinkin' your beer, and they're sleeping on the floor. And they are using the phone, they're rude, thankless little f---ers.

  Tom Waits

  Song, Drinking, Sleep

  "Waits In Wonderland". Image Magazine Interview with Rip Rense, December 13, 1992.

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• Painting is a fine art: not merely because it gives us trees and faces and lovely things to see, but because paint is a finely tuned antenna, reacting to very unnoticed movement of the painter's hand, fixing the faintest shadow of a thought in color and texture.

  James Elkins

  Art, Hands, Color

  James Elkins (2004). “What Painting Is”, p.193, Routledge

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• I think, because I'm an artist, part of my job is to be a barometer, an antenna. It's in the air and it resonates with a lot of people to lighten up.

  Jane Siberry

  Jobs, Artist, Thinking

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• Kids have what I call a built-in hypocrisy antenna that comes up and blocks out what you're saying when you're being a hypocrite.

  Benjamin Carson

  Block, Hypocrite, Kids

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• My decision to begin research in radio astronomy was influenced both by my wartime experience with electronics and antennas and by one of my teachers, Jack Ratcliffe, who had given an excellent course on electromagnetic theory during my final undergraduate year.

  Antony Hewish

  Teacher, War, Science

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• I remember attaching a wire clothing hanger to the antenna of my radio in my bedroom, so I could get the frequency and get that station and listen to the top 10 every night.

  Nelly Furtado

  Night, Wire, Top 10

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• Wherever we are, God's in that moment, God's speaking to us, and if we've just got our ears open and our antennas up, there's no lack of inspiration. He's not silent. We just have to be listening.

  Steven Curtis Chapman

  Inspiration, Listening, Ears

  Press conference after GMA Music Awards, 2007.

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• As a filmmaker, you've got to have a nose for what's going on culturally. You have to feel it. It doesn't have to be manga or music, but you need some kind of antenna. That's very important.

  Takashi Miike

  Important, Needs, Noses

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Juanita found herself at Old Jeemy's radio station in a room she could have sworn was a laboratory where creatures with antennas in their heads, knobs for eyes, jagged arms, and dangly legs conducted experiments on the bodies of dead vocalists.

  Dan Jenkins

  Music, Eye, Body

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• You know what I never get with the limo? The tinted windows. Is that so people don't see you? Yeah, what a better way not to have people notice you than taking a thirty foot Cadillac with a TV antenna and a uniformed driver. How discreet. Nobody cares who's in the limo. You see a limo go by, you know it's either some rich jerk or fifty prom kids with $1.75 each.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Kids, Feet, People

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• I think writers, by nature, are more observers instead of participators. I am no where near as much of that as Bob Dylan. But when your antenna is up you are pretty fixated and there is not much room in your life for anything else.

  Ian Hunter

  Thinking, Bob, Rooms

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• I have worked with another first-time director who was not that open, and it was probably one of the worst experiences I ever had, so my antennas are really out.

  Elisabeth Shue

  Directors, Firsts, First Time

  "Elisabeth Shue Talks Lingerie With AM". Interview with Teena Apeles, www.askmen.com. April 2, 2010.

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• People in every direction
  No words exchanged
  No time to exchange
  And all the little ants are marching
  Red and black antennas waving
  They all do it the same
  We all do it the same way

  Dave Matthews

  People, Black, Littles

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