Tim Conway Quotes

I would get ill before going onstage - something about getting in front of people, and if they don't laugh, I'm a bomb. I got over it when somebody laughed.

Tim Conway

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 15, 1933

Topics

PeopleLaughOverSomethingGoing

The very fact that doctrine is hewn from bitter controversy and tested through time is sufficient reason to make them a focus of theology.

Stanley Hauerwas

TimeFocusReasonThroughBitter

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

Socrates

ManI AmAliveKnowNothingWisest

Police arrested two kids yesterday, one was drinking battery acid, the other was eating fireworks. They charged one and let the other one off.

Tommy Cooper

PoliceEatingYesterdayFireworks

Children need to have both time to think and the motivation to think for themselves, to develop an expert reading brain, before the digital mode dominates their reading. The immediacy and volume of information should not be confused with true knowledge.

Maryanne Wolf

KnowledgeChildrenTimeBrainThink

Taking someone else's language and fitting it into your own speech - you learn a lot about other people's brains, doing that.

Johnny Flynn

PeopleLanguageLearnSomeoneDoing

It can be difficult to be subtle and not cartoony in prosthetics. But when you see characters like Bubbles and Desiree from 'Little Britain' on screen, it makes all the hard work worth it. It's such fun watching those transformations.

David Walliams

WorkHard WorkFunWorthYouSee

I discovered that bone china was a British invention, which had been developed by a pottery sited next to a slaughterhouse - 'bone' china, of course, contains bones, though we are inclined to forget that.

Christien Meindertsma

ForgetInventionNextChinaBones

Don't say Aretha is making a comeback, because I've never been away!

Aretha Franklin

ComebackSayNeverBecauseBeen

I'm not a complainer. I'm a doer. So if I see something is wrong, then I feel like I have to get in there and try to fix it.

Pramila Jayapal

FeelWrongTryFixSeeI See

I like to embrace natural beauty. I try to get at least 8 hours of sleep, drinking a lot of water and exercising.

Tia Mowry

BeautyWaterFitnessSleepEmbrace

I think British journalists do well in America because the newspaper culture there is so strong - telling stories and presenting them readably is in their DNA. British newspapers get a terrible rap, but they are brilliant in their presentation, most of them, so full of vitality and literary wit.

Tina Brown

CultureStrongThinkAmericaDNA

We actually, as a band, have always been really adamant since the beginning about trying to be involved in charity any way we can.

Mark Pontius

BeginningCharityTryingWayBand

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