These antenna quotes will inspire you. Antenna is a rod, wire, or other device used to transmit or receive radio or television signals or either of a pair of long, thin sensory appendages on the heads of insects, crustaceans, and some other arthropods.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging antenna quotes, antenna sayings, and antenna proverbs.
Famous Antenna Quotes
- “Comedians are never really on vacation because you’re always at attention… that antenna is always out there.” ~ Bob Newhart
- “I am like a TV antenna. I catch everything that is in the air, and then I do it my way.” ~ Karl Lagerfeld
- “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
- “Your heart has a powerful little antenna and its vibrations can be felt throughout the universe.” ~ Suzy Kassem
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“The artist is the antenna of the race.” ~ Ezra Pound
- “Good teachers realise that the students are the antenna; they are sensing things that the teachers don’t yet sense.” ~ Brian Eno
- “The same big TV antenna dwarfed each roof, as though life here could only be bearable if lived elsewhere in the imagination.” ~ Gloria Steinem
- “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
- “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
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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
- “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
- “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
- “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
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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
- “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
- “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
- “You might be a redneck if the antenna on your truck is a danger to low flying airplanes.” ~ Jeff Foxworthy
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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
- “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
- “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
- “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
- “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
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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
- “But, yeah, I’m really happy when I’m writing. When I’m being creative and when I have something that I can put down. You know, if you go out and you overhear a conversation or you have a thought, you have a receptacle to go home and say, ‘Oh, this would be great in this script.’ Your antenna’s out in a different way, and I love that time.” ~ Josh Radnor
- “I have never understood, for example, how come a child can climb up on the roof, scale the TV antenna, and rescue the cat … yet cannot walk down the hallway without grabbing both walls with his grubby hands for balance.” ~ Erma Bombeck\
- “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
- “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 -
“He [Tinky Winky] is purple – the gay-pride color, and his antenna is shaped like a triangle – the gay pride symbol.” ~ Jerry Falwell
- “My discussion with Keith Richards about the creative process led me to believe that there’s an invisible presence of a stream of ever-flowing creativity that we overhear-all you have to do is pull up the antenna and dial it in. This presence allows you to maintain your sense of origin and move forward.” ~ Billy Gibbons
- “You know those balls that they put on car antennas so you can find them in the parking lot? Those should be on every car!” ~ Homer
- “Radio astronomers study radio waves from space using sensitive antennas and receivers, which give them precise information about what an astronomical object is and where it is in our night sky. And just like the signals that we send and receive here on Earth, we can convert these transmissions into sound using simple analog techniques.” ~ Honor Harger
- “As a film-maker and a poet, I feel it’s my duty to be an eye and an antenna to what’s happening around me. I always felt a solidarity with those who are desperate and confused and misused and are seeking a way out of it.” ~ Jonas Mekas
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“Pulling heads off Barbies, sticking them on the TV antenna and ruining the reception. But thats how witch babies are.” ~ Francesca Lia Block
- “It’s a real message. Snapchat has put an antenna [on me] and the whole world has got to see me. You either like it or you don’t. I’ve been blessed with people that like it. Again, I’m just being me. The key is to always be you. That’s the key.” ~ DJ Khaled
- “I’m a music fan, and I can listen to the radio, or music, without thinking, “How am I going to screw this up?” [Laughs] If I’m really actively trying to think of a parody, then I’ll have my antenna out, and be a little more proactive about it.” ~ Al Yankovic
- “The issues which mattered to me as an activist, mainly things like prison reform and AIDS, have less of a chance of getting covered on my show than things I don’t have a personal interest in. It’s because I don’t trust my antenna about being a good storyteller on those subjects, because I know a lot and therefore lose touch with what the average person might find interesting about them.” ~ Rachel Maddow
