#ran

It's strange because even in the vaudeville days, ventriloquists were never the main attraction. They were the guys brought out to stand in front of the curtain while sets were being changed. Ventriloquism wasn't even celebrated as an art until Edgar Bergen came along in the 1930s. ↗

— Jeff Dunham

#art #attraction #because #being #brought

We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments that pop up to the surface, having no notion of the beautiful structures of which they were once a part. ↗

— Allan Bloom

#civilizations #flourished #fragments #great #having

Spending two years on my uncle's ranch in Montana as a young man gave me the wisdom and the thrust to do westerns. ↗

— Robert Duvall

#man #me #montana #ranch #spending

What people don't understand about Sarah Palin is that she is a rancher's wife. From Alberta down to Texas I've known women like that: good common sense, bright and vilified by city people. ↗

— Robert Duvall

#bright #city #city people #common #common sense

Pigs are not that dirty. And they're smart, strange little creatures. They just need love. ↗

— Shelley Duvall

#dirty #just #little #love #need

Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed. ↗

— Wayne Dyer

#day #future #gone #guaranteed #last

I have four children and I have seven grandkids. ↗

— Dick Van Dyke

#four #grandkids #i #seven

First I would probably place men at the bottom of the food chain. On a grander scale, I would say they're reacting to change. Feminism has got to be part of that. ↗

— Neil LaBute

#chain #change #feminism #first #food

The CIA will only hire people with impeccable credentials to be a translator. 'Impeccable credentials' means you've never lived outside the United States. ↗

— Michael Bloomberg

#credentials #hire #impeccable #lived #means

As we had no part of our will on our entrance into this life, we should not presume to any on our leaving it, but soberly learn to will which He wills. ↗

— William Drummond

#entrance #had #into #learn #leaving