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Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
H.L. Mencken
(1880 – 1956) journalist, essayist, editor & satirist
Art
Democracy
Government
Science/Weather
Democracy
Monkey cage
Gravitation is the only logical factor a sculptor has to contend with.
David Smith
(1906 – 1965) American sculptor
Art
Entertainment
Sculpture
You know the really great thing about television? If something important happens, anywhere in the world, night or day… you can always change the channel.
Christopher Lloyd
(1938 – ) American actor
Entertainment
Television
TV/Movie Quotes
As Jim Ignatowski in “Taxi”
Television is the triumph of machine over people.
Fred Allen
(1894 – 1956) American radio comedian
Entertainment
People
Television
Machines
I've seen a topless lady ventriloquist… nobody has ever seen her lips move!
Kenneth Dodd
(1927 – 2018) British comedian, singer & songwriter
Appearance
Body
Entertainment
Ventriloquist
Piano: A parlor utensil for subduing the impertinent visitor. It is operated by depressing the keys of the machine and the spirits of the audience.
Ambrose Bierce
(1842 – 1914) author & satirist
Definitions
Entertainment
Music
Things
Piano
Oh say can you see, by the dawn’s early light. What so proudly we hailed.
Of thee I sing.
Archie Bunker
television character,
All In the Family
(Carroll O’Connor)
Malaprops
Music
From “America”
It used to be that we in films were the lowest form of art; now we have something to look down on.
Billy Wilder
(1906 – 2002) Austrian journalist, filmmaker, screenwriter & producer
Entertainment
Television
This business is dog eat dog and nobody is gonna eat me.
Samuel Goldwyn
(1879 – 1974) film producer
Entertainment
Television: A means of getting a babysitter so Mom and Dad can get out to the movies.
Anonymous
Definitions
Entertainment
Television
Calling Kathy Lee 'entertainment' is like falling off the roof and calling it transportation.
Rocky LaPorte
American actor & stand-up comedian
Entertainment
Insults
Kathy Lee Gifford
I saw that show, 50 Things To Do Before You Die; I would have thought the obvious one was "Shout For Help."
Jimmy Carr
(1972 – ) Anglo-Irish comedian, writer & actor
Death
Entertainment
Television
Milton was probably the best at dealing with hecklers, but then he probably had the most practice.
George Burns
(1896 – 1996) comedian, actor & entertainer
Entertainment
Milton Berle
Never argue with a man who is shorter than his Oscar.
Larry Gelbart
(1928 – 2009) American television writer, playwright, screenwriter & author
Entertainment
Film
People
Dustin Hoffman
Oscars
I doubt that art needed [John] Ruskin any more than a moving train needs one of its passengers to shove it.
Tom Stoppard
(1937 – ) British playwright & screenwriter
Art
Entertainment
Insults
Criticism
John Ruskin
Comedy is tragedy plus time!
Alan Alda
(1936 – ) American actor, director & screenwriter
Entertainment
TV/Movie Quotes
As Lester in “Crimes and Misdemeanors”
Comedy
Tragedy
I just got back from the Middle East, where I performed for 15,000 men – and then I did my comedy.
Vanessa Hollingshead
Entertainment
Places
Sex
Comedy
Middle East
Someone once told me that every minute a murder occurs, so I don’t want to waste your time, I know you want to go back to work.
Alfred Hitchcock
(1899 – 1980) English filmmaker & producer
Conflict
Entertainment
Film
Time
Homicide
Every child is an artist; the problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
Pablo Picasso
(1881 – 1973) Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker & stage designer
Art
Children
Entertainment
Fiddle: An instrument to tickle human ears by friction of a horse's tail on the entrails of a cat.
Ambrose Bierce
(1842 – 1914) author & satirist
Animals
Definitions
Music
Fiddle
It seems to be a law in American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevitably becomes uneconomic.
Russell Baker
(1925 – ) columnist & journalist
Education
Entertainment
Money
American Life
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