Art Bell Quotes

Is time our invention, or is time a real thing... I realize we're measuring it, but in the cosmic scheme of things, is there really time?

- Art Bell

There is a difference in what people are willing to consider, daytime versus nighttime.

- Art Bell

The greatest question of all is whether our experience on this planet is 'it' or whether there is something else. Things in the supernatural realm give support, strangely perhaps, to the things we take on faith.

- Art Bell

Fear is a great motivator. Look at what 9-11 has accomplished - My god. It's slammed the economy, It's - I can't even begin to detail all it's actually done, other than bring down the buildings and hit the Pentagon. It's stunned the entire nation.

- Art Bell

I was crushingly bored talking about politics 30 hours a week.

- Art Bell

I've always been a technological junkie.

- Art Bell

I'm not a gun nut, but go out on my porch. Look around - what's there? Zero, nothing. If I had a problem out here, well, the police would arrive just in time to draw the chalk outline on my floor.

- Art Bell

CNN is destroying their franchise. They've become either the trial network or the story network.

- Art Bell

I am going to retire, and it is going to be a permanent retirement.

- Art Bell

The net effect of cutting commercials in half is a fairly serious economic reality for Premier - and for me.

- Art Bell

A mind should not be so open that the brains fall out; however, it should not be so closed that whatever gray matter which does reside may not be reached.

- Art Bell

If someone's a flake, I help them dig their own hole. I let the audience be the judge. And believe me, they are.

- Art Bell

People are always demanding proof. These are things that are not easily proved.

- Art Bell

I allow those phones to ring, and I go straight to it. As a result, I get some very, very strange phone calls.

- Art Bell

I don't like something so fantasy-filled that I couldn't imagine it ever happening. I like things that could come true. That's how I conduct the show.

- Art Bell

The 9/11 truthers hate my guts.

- Art Bell

I think - no, I'm sure - 'Coast to Coast' wouldn't work with a daytime audience.

- Art Bell

There are time when, in effect, you can do no wrong, and there are other periods of time when you can do no right, no matter what you do.

- Art Bell

Out here, everything is bigger. You see strange things, and that changes you.

- Art Bell

I get a guest on the air, and they're weird or strange, and I help them tell their story. I don't laugh at them. I listen.

- Art Bell

Thousands of people seeing the same thing cannot all be wrong.

- Art Bell

But I do believe in the paranormal, that there are things our brains just can't understand.

- Art Bell