Paul Winchell Quotes

I think television defeats ventriloquism.

Paul Winchell

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• I think 'North by Northwest' and 'Rope' and Rear Window' and 'Psycho' are on my list of favorite all time movies. I just think his kind of command as a director was almost unparalleled, and I feel like in certain ways the sort of character-based thriller owes more to Hitchcock than anyone.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • Time
  • Character
  • Think

• The fundamental importance of the subject of molecular diffraction came first to be recognized through the theoretical work of the late Lord Rayleigh on the blue light of the sky, which he showed to be the result of the scattering of sunlight by the gases of the atmosphere.

  

  C. V. Raman
  • Work
  • Light
  • Sky

• I've always had confidence. It came because I have lots of initiative. I wanted to make something of myself.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Myself
  • Always
  • Confidence

• The problem, when comparing contemporary television to television in 1974, is that TV has become not just bad but sad.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Bad
  • Problem
  • Sad

• I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • War
  • Peace
  • Never

• When I was growing up, I wasn't in bands, and had really no intention of ever doing music. I went out to California for college, and kind of on a whim started making music really as a joke, and over the course of the next five years started playing a lot of shows, and music became this really integral part of my identity.

  

  K. Flay
  • Up
  • Music
  • Growing

• The New England Patriots have always been a special organization and I've always watched from afar.

  

  Randy Moss
  • Organization
  • New
  • Special

• I think that every Saturday, we ought to say, 'My father's a Jew, my mother was a Jew, and I'm a Jew,' with great pride.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Great
  • Mother
  • Father

• I've never purposefully based a character on any one person I know, but I'm certain there are amalgamations that exist.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Character
  • Know
  • Never

• I'm interested in animation. I actually feel like I've learned so much about the process how to make an animated movie.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Movie
  • Like
  • Process

• There is nothing in ANC policy which calls for attacks on civilians in supermarkets, schools, and cinemas unless these are regarded as military installations.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Military
  • Nothing
  • Policy

• In middle school, I really didn't have music, but in high school, I remember taking a lot of choir and drama.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Music
  • School
  • Remember

• I love singing. I love singing at home.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Love
  • Home
  • Singing

• Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die, but long after we are gone be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistence.

  

  Daniel Burnham
  • Work
  • Long
  • High

• Honestly, for a big city, London is by far my favourite city on earth, and I'm not just saying that!

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Earth
  • City
  • Saying

• Nine per cent of my viewers are men, of which the majority is, I think, 45 to 50. I like to tell myself it's just my dad watching.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • Men
  • Think
  • Dad

• After a century of striving, after a year of debate, after a historic vote, health care reform is no longer an unmet promise. It is the law of the land.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Law
  • Health
  • Promise

• Moving to the U.S. was an adjustment. I noticed that the kids played in groups. Back in Kakuma, everyone played together.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Kids
  • Together
  • Moving

• Dating co-stars is natural. When you're working with someone, it's habit.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • You
  • Habit
  • Dating

• When I turned 19 I kinda realized that I needed to write my own songs instead of singing songs written by other people.

  

  Colbie Caillat
  • People
  • Singing

• Anthony Johnson hits harder than any other person, no doubt. Every time he hit me, it made me kind of, like, fly all over the place. He was trying to take my head off.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Doubt

• A number of girls of my acquaintance went to school to the nuns of the Congregational Nunnery, or Sisters of Charity, as they are sometimes called.

  

  Maria Monk
  • School
  • Charity

• It's great to listen to men talk about sports or fights or war or even hunting sometimes, but the presence of the other, the presence of art and beauty, which crude masculinity seems to discount, is essential. Real civilization and real manhood seem to me to include those.

  

  James Salter
  • Great
  • Men
  • Real

• I think television defeats ventriloquism.

  

  Paul Winchell