Bob Newhart Quotes

I can't do a one-camera show. I don't know how to do that kind of show where you count in your head and then you do the next line.

Bob Newhart

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• I was terribly wounded by my wife's death.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Death
  • Wife
  • Wounded

• The way I look at it is that somebody in the world, no matter what your field is - teacher, violinist, football player - has to be the best. Why not me?

  

  J. J. Watt
  • World
  • Why
  • Best

• The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation from their purposes.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz
  • War
  • Political
  • Goal

• 'King Lear,' I've been seeing all my life. I mean, the great actors of my lifetime... to join their company, as it were, by playing a part that's challenged them, is one of the great joys of being an actor who does the classics.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Life
  • Great
  • King

• I never miss a vote; I think that's the power of the people. A lot of people fought and died for us to have votes, for women to have votes in particular - your vote is your one weapon.

  

  Imelda May
  • People
  • Women
  • Power

• We are all tasked to balance and optimize ourselves.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Balance
  • Ourselves
  • Optimize

• There are plenty of difficult obstacles in your path. Don't allow yourself to become one of them.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • Path
  • Yourself
  • Obstacles

• The people at the bottom who are working but working at relatively low wages need some help.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • People
  • Help
  • Need

• Deep in the human nature, there is an almost irresistible tendency to concentrate physical and mental energy on attempts at solving problems that seem to be unsolvable. Indeed, for some kinds of active people, only the seemingly unsolvable problems can arouse their interest.

  

  Ragnar Frisch
  • People
  • Nature
  • Energy

• Mainly I love working on good writing.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Working

• The Republican Party is bringing out here onto the floor of Congress an all-out assault on the protection of the rights of people who work in the fields of our country, in the factories of our country, in the offices of our country.

  

  Ed Markey
  • People
  • Work
  • Country

• Strew gladness on the paths of men-You will not pass this way again.

  

  Sam Walter Foss
  • Men

• But maybe you're just as glad he’s not a shrink, eh? Awful to have your spouse analyzing your unconscious desires across the dinner table, eh?

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin

• We Franz Marc & Kandinsky thought up the name Der Blaue Reiter (Blue Rider) while sitting at a cafe table.. .Both of us were fond of blue things, Franz Marc of blue horses, and I of blue riders. So the title suggested itself.

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
  • Up
  • Blue

• His heart beating faster, his throat drying, Nabby whispered to the driver, ‘Not so bloody fast.’ ‘Tuan?’ ‘All right, all right.’ One of these days he must really get down to the language. There never seemed to be the time, somehow....

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Time
  • Heart

• When you're shy, the worst thing you can do is go into all these casting rooms and be scrutinized. But with shyness, I think you just have to bite the bullet.

  

  Dylan Penn

• I've liked most of the films that I've been in and those are the kinds of films I like to see.

  

  Benicio Del Toro

• I like contemporary, bare-boned writing. I don't like having the language that I barely understand get in the way of me interpreting it over to an audience. It's this barrier that I don't want to have to attack.

  

  Laurie Metcalf
  • Writing

• Lady Gaga is one of the most amazingly talented musicians to bring her gifts to humanity in a long time.

  

  Jared Polis
  • Time
  • Long
  • Humanity

• In the past, I used to rely on the randomness of working with samples, which was a good way because it threw you in a completely different direction. You just thought, 'What if I take this samba drum and combined it with an '80s synth line or something from this record?'

  

  Jens Lekman
  • Good
  • Different
  • Past

• And I never missed one concert. In 89 shows, I think I did one a bit suspect show. In the old days, I'd pull gigs left, right and center because I was too f - - up.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Thinking
  • Concerts
  • Gigs

• I do know that there isn't ever going to be a time when there aren't any knitters.

  

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
  • Knows
  • Knitters

• I can't do a one-camera show. I don't know how to do that kind of show where you count in your head and then you do the next line.

  

  Bob Newhart