Bob Edwards Quotes & Sayings

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

“Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that.”

“Nobody cares about your wardrobe, what your tie looks like, or even if you're wearing one, and I don't.”

“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.”

“The pictures are created by the listener, with a little help from the broadcaster. The pictures are perfect. If you're showing pictures, different things in that picture can distract from the spoken word.”

“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.”

“When Solomon said there was a time and a place for everything he had not encountered the problem of parking his automobile.”

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

“If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.”

“With radio, the listener absorbs everything.”