Steve Allen (Stephen Valentine Patrick William Allen) Quotes

Radio is the theater of the mind; television is the theater of the mindless.

Steve Allen

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• Mindless

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• He used to have a tent show, a little tent show, and I thought I was going to get a job working one year on the tent show, but he closed it down and I never got to go out there, but anyway, he had a sax and played drums.

  

  Earl Scruggs
  • Job
  • Thought
  • Year

• I had Hallowe'en parties every year, as it was my birthday five days before. My parents would actually put prosthetic noses on, and my dad would wear a top-hat and tails, put on a fake curly moustache, and hold a pipe.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Parents
  • Dad
  • Year

• Dance should mean something to you.

  

  Damian Woetzel
  • You
  • Mean
  • Dance

• I have absolutely no empathy for camels. I didn't care for being abused in the Middle East by those horrible, horrible, horrible creatures. They don't like people. It's not at all like the relationship between horses and humans.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • People
  • Relationship
  • Care

• For me, insomnia was something ordinary, and it came and went for ordinary reasons.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Me
  • Reasons
  • Ordinary

• I am always relaxed.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Relaxed

• Ensuring that we help prepare all kids for life, college, and work in our knowledge-based economy will require a collaborative, sustained effort from all stakeholders - from the president and the secretary of education on down to states, school districts, principals, teachers, parents, and community members.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Life
  • Work
  • School

• The criticism of religion ends with the doctrine that man is the supreme being for man. It ends, therefore, with the categorical imperative to overthrow all those conditions in which man is an abased, enslaved, abandoned, contemptible being.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Criticism

• I didn't like Jaya's Hazaar Chaurasi ki Ma, though I did like her performance. I felt the movie was too verbose. I thought why did they have to make a film? They could have simply written an article.

  

  Amitabh Bachchan
  • Why
  • Movie

• In the federal confirmation process, a standard question from the judiciary committee is, 'Well, if you're confirmed will you legislate?' And, with a look of horror, the nominee says, 'Oh, I won't legislate.' Well, what about the law of contract and tort; where do they think it came from, the stork?

  

  Anthony Kennedy
  • Law
  • Question

• I really learned it all from mothers.

  

  Benjamin Spock

• Fun without sell gets nowhere, but sell without fun tends to become obnoxious.

  

  Leo Burnett
  • Fun

• There was a time when the Republican Party could discuss possible reforms to our gun laws: Ronald Reagan himself endorsed the Brady Bill and the assault weapons ban that passed in 1994.

  

  Charlie Sykes
  • Time
  • Party
  • Gun

• I often think of the novel as a form that celebrates social groups, and the short story being a form that is capable of celebrating an individual or a sort of insular little pair of people.

  

  Antonya Nelson
  • People

• Whatever woman I love... I gotta love her. She might be a hood rat, but she's gotta have respect for my mother.

  

  Astro
  • She
  • Mother
  • Respect

• Terrorism, too, must be excised wherever it exists, which will take years, and which can't happen without the total commitment and the everyday involvement of the American people.

  

  David Hackworth
  • People
  • American
  • Everyday

• It's always interesting just to see how the human mind is relating to the natural universe, and what we try to make of it just so we can believe we understand what's going on.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • Believe
  • Mind
  • Interesting

• I intend to keep writing Christmas songs. There's still a lot more about Christmas that can be captured and feel like old-time Christmas. A lot of the traditions haven't been explained in song.

  

  Clint Black
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Song

• A black man singing about a blond girl was potential trouble.

  

  Charley Pride
  • Black
  • Girl
  • Singing

• A Positive Mental Attitude is the right mental attitude. What is the right mental attitude? It is most often comprised of the "plus" characteristics symbolized by such words as faith, integrity, hope, optimism, courage, initiative, generosity, tolerance, tact, kindliness, and good common sense. A person with positive mental attitude aims for high goals and constantly strives to achieve them.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Good
  • High
  • Hope

• Lifting your eyes from the things of this world is an activity that must begin WHERE YOU ARE.

  

  K. P. Yohannan
  • World
  • Eyes
  • Eye

• Take your mind off the problems for a moment, and focus on the positive possibilities. Consider how very much you are able to do.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • Mind
  • Focus
  • Positive

• The keenest pangs the wretched find Are rapture to the dreary void, The leafless desert of the mind, The waste of feelings unemployed.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Mind
  • Desert

• Radio is the theater of the mind; television is the theater of the mindless.

  

  Steve Allen
  • Mind
  • Television
  • Radio