Jonathan Winters Quotes

As a kid, I always wanted to be lots of things. I was a Walter Mitty type. I wanted to be in the French Foreign Legion, a detective, a doctor, a test pilot with a scarf, a fisherman who hauled in a tremendous marlin after a 12-hour fight.

Jonathan Winters

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: comedian
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 11, 1925 - April 11, 2013

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FightDoctorTestPilotScarfKid

I learned long ago, back with 'Lover Revealed,' that my job is to sit at the computer, shut up and type. Otherwise? The pictures and the voices go away!

Jessica Bird

JobLongBackPicturesGoShut Up

You can see how an increase in the water level would wipe out hundreds of thousands of people's homes.

Andrew Mitchell

WaterPeopleYouSeeOutLevel

A little narcissism is good. At least that's what I am telling myself.

Andy Dunn

GoodMyselfI AmNarcissismLittle

We all know how the Internet has changed the lives of consumers: it's changed how we communicate, how we shop, how we meet people. It's changed things for businesses too.

Maynard Webb

PeopleInternetKnowMeetThings

I was always handsome under all the fat.

Robert Iler

FatHandsomeAlways

I'm horribly self-critical.

John Hurt

Self-CriticalHorribly

Video just accesses international information so much more readily.

Ann Macbeth

InformationMoreJustVideoMuch

If there were rankings for press conferences, I wouldn't have to worry about dropping out of the top five, I hope.

Andy Roddick

HopeWorryTopOutFivePress

Now, I'm not suggesting we're going to wait 40 years or even four years, but I think we have to put in perspective the fact that we've come quite a distance. We have quite a distance to come - go, as well.

Michael Chertoff

PerspectiveWaitThinkDistanceGo

Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.

Ambrose Bierce

HumorAmericanSaltIntellectualWit

Perfection irritates as well as it attracts, in fiction as in life.

Louis Auchincloss

LifePerfectionFictionWell

If you're in such a position of power and your ego is such that this is not possible, then its essential to have a small cadre of very bright, committed people who are questioning, exploring and understanding these emerging concepts.

Dee Hock

PowerPeopleSmallEgoUnderstanding

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