#dummy

To be accused of 'channeling' is to be dismissed as a ventriloquist's live dummy, derogated at not having a mind of one's own. ↗

— William Safire

#channeling #dismissed #dummy #having #live

Up until college age I was using the typical little-boy dummy that sits on the knee and makes woodpecker jokes. My first original character didn't happen until later, and that was Jose the Jalapeno on a Stick. ↗

— Jeff Dunham

#character #college #dummy #first #happen

My goal was to prove to my family I wasn't a dummy. ↗

— Roger Goodell

#family #goal #i #prove

When I was eight years old, I got a dummy for Christmas and started teaching myself. I got books and records and sat in front of the bathroom mirror, practising. I did my first show in the third grade and just kept going; there was no reason to quit. ↗

— Jeff Dunham

#books #christmas #did #dummy #eight

It's true, you can never eat a pet you name. And anyway, it would be like a ventriloquist eating his dummy. ↗

— Alexander Theroux

#dummy #eat #eating #his #like

Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#barber #dummy #poetry #real #real art

Smartphones. Who cares? Smartphones. I only have dummy phones. ↗

— Don Rickles

#dummy #i #only #phones #who

Dummy Dum Dum was my nickname for years at school. I was the strange one of the family, the one who couldn't remember his name. ↗