Jonathan Winters Quotes

My paintings and comedy have a lot in common. They are both improvisations based on observation.

Jonathan Winters

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• But in the long run we're not going to be able to keep out of state trash away from Pennsylvania.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Long
  • Run
  • Trash

• I tweeted once, and I still stick to this, that I would love to marry a Croatian girl. I want my children to speak Croatian first, and for them to do that, we need someone who speaks very good Croatian.

  

  Nathaniel Buzolic
  • Children
  • Want
  • Girl

• Stand by your man. Give him two arms to cling to and something warm to come to.

  

  Tammy Wynette
  • Man
  • For Her
  • Give

• If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Perfect
  • Humility
  • Only

• I have dangerous bones in my body.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Body
  • Dangerous
  • Bones

• At the end of the day, I am not my dad and have my own journey to make.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Dad
  • Day
  • Journey

• My dad was my hero. And I got my personality from my mother.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Mother
  • Dad
  • Personality

• If I go out in the open ocean environment, virtually anywhere in the world, and I drag a net from 3,000 feet to the surface, most of the animals - in fact, in many places, 80 to 90 percent of the animals that I bring up in that net - make light. This makes for some pretty spectacular light shows.

  

  Edith Widder
  • Up
  • World
  • Pretty

• You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.

  

  Jack Welch
  • People
  • Know
  • Stand

• Most people don't really understand what it takes to get a film made, and the struggles .I think anyone who makes a film goes through their own set of struggles.

  

  Barbara Broccoli
  • People
  • Think
  • Understand

• When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Man

• My hobbies include maintaining my physical and mental health. It's a full-time job. Yoga definitely helps for both of them. I'm a big fan of relaxing and not having a schedule. That's my best way to keep from going crazy.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • Time
  • Job
  • Health

• I consider myself an inventor first and an entrepreneur second. In real life, my hero is Thomas Edison. He was a great inventor, but also an outstanding entrepreneur who was able to sell his inventions to the masses. He didn't just develop the light bulb; he invented the entire electric grid and power distribution system.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • Life
  • Great
  • Real

• It is our job, as members of parliament, to legislate with an eye to the long term future, to look over the horizon beyond the next election and ensure that as far as we can what we do today will make Australia a better place, a safer place, for future generations to live in.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Long
  • Live
  • Job

• Costa Rica is not afraid to go before any international body.

  

  Laura Chinchilla
  • Body
  • Afraid
  • Before

• I would go through phases of wanting to be a mermaid or a vet, but because I grew up around people who were always making movies, I guess it sort of just moulded my mind.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • People
  • Up
  • Mind

• What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Age
  • Memories
  • Old Age

• We need to recognise that the whole edifice of our fifth estate, of our journalism, has been built on a foundation of newspaper journalism and that that foundation is crumbling. The management of the media companies will deny that the end is nigh. I hope they are right.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Hope
  • End
  • Management

• He was himself and he had lost the speedHe started with, and he was left behind.

  

  Edwin Arlington Robinson
  • Lost

• One of the bibles of my youth was 'Birds of the West Indies,' by James Bond, a well-known ornithologist, and when I was casting about for a name for my protagonist I thought, 'My God, that's the dullest name I've ever heard,' so I appropriated it. Now the dullest name in the world has become an exciting one.

  

  Ian Fleming
  • World
  • God
  • Youth

• We must remember that democracy works when given time to develop, mature and deliver. People must have access to information for informed debate. Government institutions must treat citizens fairly, and with dignity, while responding to their needs.

  

  Atifete Jahjaga
  • People
  • Time
  • Remember

• We must fight as a race for everything that makes for a better country and a better world. We are dreaming idiots and trusting fools to do anything less.

  

  Ralph Bunche
  • World
  • Country
  • Better

• When it comes to producing breakthroughs, both technological and artistic, Pixar's track record is unique. In the early 1990s, we were known as the leading technological pioneer in the field of computer animation.

  

  Ed Catmull
  • Unique

• My paintings and comedy have a lot in common. They are both improvisations based on observation.

  

  Jonathan Winters
  • Comedy