Studs Terkel

“I'm celebrated for celebrating the uncelebrated.”

“I am a collector of voices.”

“Most of us have jobs that are too small for our spirits.”

“People are hungry for stories. It's part of our very being.”

“Work is about a search for daily meaning as well as daily bread, for recognition as well as cash, for astonishment rather than torpor; in short, for a sort of life rather than a Monday through Friday sort of dying.”

“The dream is still alive, even if it's on life support.”

“Curiosity did not kill this cat.”

“Apathy is a form of living death.”

“The whole thing is to keep working and pretty soon they'll think you're good.”

“Doubt is the brother of shame.”

“Jazz is the symphony of the freedom of the soul.”

“I like the phrase 'citizen journalist' because it describes what I do.”

“Take it easy, but take it.”

“I always had a tape recorder, with a microphone sticking out of it like a pistol.”

“Chicago is not the most corrupt of cities. It's the most theatrical.”

“I hope for the day when everyone can speak of his or her own truth and have that truth be heard. And that is what I'm trying to do.”