Dick Van Dyke Quotes

I've always thought if I could pick my interviewer, it'd be Charlie Rose, who I think is the best.

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• When I was small, I was the same as everyone else. I used to play in a small council estate nearby. But it's really my family who taught me. I started watching my dad play from the age of two. I wanted to be like him.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Family
  • Age
  • Small

• Life is like an analogy.

  

  Aaron Allston
  • Life
  • Like
  • Analogy

• Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.

  

  Karl Popper
  • Earth
  • Promise
  • Hell

• Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Words

• You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Success
  • Failure
  • Climb

• I feel like there should be a statute of limitations on scoring political points on the tragedy that was Hurricane Katrina.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Political
  • Feel
  • Tragedy

• Well, it is curious what lasts and what doesn't. Publishing empires and whatnot would pay anything to figure it out. But they can't figure it out.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Pay
  • Curious
  • Empires

• Look: I don't want to live with a nuclear Iran. I would like to make it uncomfortable for them to seek it.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Live
  • Want
  • Uncomfortable

• I like to always have humour in whatever I do.

  

  Adam Brody
  • Like
  • Always
  • Humour

• The beauty comes with the balance. Everyone should find his own balance in his personal as well as his professional life. Once you do so, you will feel and look beautiful.

  

  Karolina Kurkova
  • Life
  • Beautiful
  • Balance

• After about twenty issues of Josie, they decided to pay me.

  

  Dan DeCarlo
  • Issues
  • Pay
  • Decided

• I do have some viewers who know where I live, and they'll stand outside.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • Live
  • Know
  • Stand

• More than likely, mother would simply go enigmatic on him, give him one of her inscrutable smiles, and tell him that if he didn't already understand, he never would.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Mother

• The more noisy Negro leaders, by depicting all whites as natural and implacable enemies to their race, have done it a great disservice. Large numbers of whites who were formerly very friendly to it, and willing to go to great lengths to help it, are now resentful and suspicious.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Great
  • Done
  • Help

• Our own time, and by this I mean the last two or three generations, including our own, can be summed up in a way that brings into unity an immense number of details by saying of it that it is a time in which the search for the supreme truth has been a search in reality or through reality or even a search for some supremely acceptable fiction.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Up
  • Time
  • Truth

• Asimov: Well, I liked Star Wars. I thought Battlestar Galactica was such a close imitation of Star Wars, emphasizing the less attractive portions, that I was a little impatient with it.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Star

• To me more dear, congenial to my heart,One native charm, than all the gloss of art.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Heart
  • Art

• Evidence has... been adduced that schizophrenia is widespread in other kinds of human societies. ...and they form a substantial fraction of the clientele of the tribal shamans and healers.

  

  E. O. Wilson

• Most proud moment: Winning the championship in 2003 with a great team, retiring, and going out in the perfect way. Had a great journey and knowing it was the right time to focus more on family and community activities.

  

  David Robinson The Cars
  • Time
  • Great
  • Family

• Haiti was founded by African slaves who rose against their European masters, had a revolution, and created a new state. There is no other such event in Western history.

  

  Madison Smartt Bell
  • History
  • Revolution
  • Rose

• Whether I'm making a recipe or a piece of jewelry or a white-rose-and-jasmine tea or the perfume, I like to think of myself as a happy little sorceress, and if I could just have a little general store with all that stuff and give people a sense of my taste, that would be lovely.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • People
  • Happy
  • Myself

• We ought to be living as if Jesus died yesterday, rose this morning, and is coming back this afternoon.

  

  Adrian Rogers
  • Morning
  • Jesus
  • Rose

• I don't have any idols, any heroes, nothing, no.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Nothing
  • Heroes
  • Idols

• I've always thought if I could pick my interviewer, it'd be Charlie Rose, who I think is the best.

  

  Dick Van Dyke
  • Rose