Paul Lynde Quotes

My table seats eight, so that's my maximum. Having a small number of guests is the only way to generate good conversation. Besides, your whole house doesn't get wrecked that way.

Paul Lynde

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• The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • You
  • Say
  • Three

• A free and truly independent press - fiercely independent when necessary - is the red beating heart of freedom and democracy.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Heart
  • Free
  • Freedom

• It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in England. They headed a company of travelling players performing Shakespeare up and down the land.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Up
  • Long
  • Career

• They got word that the Japanese planes were coming back, so we sunk her ourselves so the Japanese wouldn't get it. We didn't want the Japanese to get it intact.

  

  Barney Ross
  • Want
  • Japanese
  • Planes

• Maybe I've lost a little, but I think everyone does over time. People have been writing that I'm getting old every year, and eventually they're going to be right. There's nobody in this game that's doing the same things they once did in the peak years of their career.

  

  Randy Johnson
  • People
  • Time
  • Writing

• It's beneficial to play against your type; to be chameleon-like.

  

  Laura Carmichael
  • Play
  • Against
  • Your

• I met Gerhard Richter and Alighiero Boetti when I was a teenager, and I was really inspired by them. When Boetti died, I realized I only vaguely remembered so many things he told me. It was such a pity. Had I only recorded his voice, he would still be with me, and I could listen to it from time to time.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Time
  • Voice
  • Inspired

• Carey Mulligan and Felicity Jones are two of my favorites. I'm not so much younger than them. I like that. It's kind of aspirational.

  

  Daisy Ridley
  • Kind
  • Like
  • Two

• I have a very strong belief in God.

  

  M. Ward
  • God
  • Strong
  • Belief

• My dad was a firefighter for almost 30 years. My mom worked her way up from a secretary to vice president of her own company. They taught me to work hard for everything and take nothing for granted. That's how I play.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Up
  • Work
  • Dad

• My only requirement for life is that I don't get stuck in a rut.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Life
  • Stuck
  • Rut

• I feel even old people can do a nice love story, but here we don't make that kind of films. In the West, such films are being made and they make a nice romance, which is more like compassion.

  

  Om Puri
  • People
  • Love
  • Nice

• Figure skating has been a great influence for me. I took dance at the School of American Ballet, which helped my own skating. And whether you are a skater or a dancer, without sounding narcissistic, it is all about looking in the mirror.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Great
  • School
  • American

• Acting is an uncomfortable business because you have to make yourself vulnerable.

  

  Beau Garrett
  • Business
  • Acting
  • Yourself

• When I was writing songs or performing or producing or dabbling in movies or even putting my career on hold to go to art school, I was just following my muse. A woman who did that then was criticized for having no direction. Today they call it versatility.

  

  Jackie DeShannon
  • Writing
  • School
  • Art

• My life, my life, now I speak of it as of something over, now as of a joke which still goes on, and it is neither, for at the same time it is over and it goes on, and is there any tense for that? Watch wound and buried by the watchmaker, before he died, whose ruined works will one day speak of God, to the worms.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Life
  • Time
  • God

• If you can't sleep, I'll be there in your dreams. I'll be there in your dreams if you can't sleep at all. And in your dreams, I'll touch your cheek And lay my head on your shoulder. Goodbye shadows

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Sleep
  • Goodbye

• O Woman, you are not merely the handiwork of God, but also of men; these are ever endowing you with beauty from their own hearts … You are one-half woman and one-half dream.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • God
  • Men
  • Dream

• SK Group will work to be reborn as a group embraced by the public.

  

  Chey Tae-won
  • Work

• The true lady is in theory either a virgin or a lawful wife.

  

  Emily James Smith Putnam
  • Wife
  • Theory
  • Lady

• I was an accidental model. One day I was asked to me a model by a neighbor who was short on models. Then I got into TV.

  

  Daisy Fuentes
  • Me
  • Day
  • Model

• With 'All Is Song,' I tried to construct a very traditional narrative that pulls no tricks.

  

  Samantha Harvey
  • Song
  • Tried
  • Traditional

• Enter, stranger, but take heed Of what awaits the sin of greed, For those who take, but do not earn, Must pay most dearly in their turn. So if you seek beneath our floors A treasure that was never yours, Thief, you have been warned, beware Of finding more than treasure there.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Greed
  • Treasure
  • Thieves

• My table seats eight, so that's my maximum. Having a small number of guests is the only way to generate good conversation. Besides, your whole house doesn't get wrecked that way.

  

  Paul Lynde
  • House
  • Conversation
  • Maximum