Shows Quotes - Page 40

Leadership is about three-fourths show-the-way and about one-fourth follow-up.

I'd love to do a Broadway show, but I can't because of the style I sing.

There are times when you just have to show people that you're all in.

I have one show biz picture in my house. It's with Mr. Hope. I have asked for one autograph in my life: Mr. Hope's.

poetry ... shows with a sudden intense clarity what is already there.

Customers can tell you how to evolve a product, but they can't show you how to make a leap.

What [Adolf Hitler] felt deep inside he wasn't going to show to outsiders.

There was a TV show called Thank Your Lucky Stars, with the catchphrase "I'll give it five!" The Beatles and Stones were so popular when they were on it. One week The Beatles were number one and then the Stones were right on their heels.

What excites me is doing shows now. I don't really get excitement from doing music because you never know what your music is going to bring. It seems like now it's all for nothing.

There are seasons when faith shows itself in taking; there are seasons when it is witnessed in refusing.

I can still stand on life's narrowest footing: but who would I be were I to show you this art. Would you like to see a ropedancer?

I have an excuse to show off my love of history, and my interest in cosmology.

I wound up signing to RCA Victor as a trumpeter, guesting on shows like Jackie Gleason's Honeymooners.

The ferocity we show our foes must be tempered by the lesson we hope to teach.

It is in adversity that the good show their friendship most clearly; prosperity always finds friends.

The first thing that got to me was seeing David Bowie on a children's TV show, but Bowie was way beyond my aspirations. The Buzzcocks' Spiral Scratch came out in 1977 and it had a breakdown of the recording costs, then you saw Pete Shelley playing a broken guitar from Woolworths. We already had an idea of the kind of music we wanted to do, but punk showed us a way to do it.

After all, game shows are not like working in a coal mine.

Over 100,000 people attend my shows each season and no one can say they haven't heard the Gospel.

I don't know what my life would have been like if I'd never gotten into show business.

A lot of show business, as you know, is about all the contacts you make and who you know.

I don't have a fear factor. Well, not much of one. And I'm willing to risk quite a lot - as a comedian, you're always risking a lot. You're risking failure, especially if you're improvising and going on TV shows trying to make comedy out of thin air. That is quite a risky business.

I have always liked shows that have laughter in them.

I always expose the apparatus. I show how the film was made. I acknowledge the filmmaker and the filmmaking.

What you think about when you don't think, shows who you really are.

Show business is and has always been a depraved carnival.