Look, I come from vaudeville, I come from burlesque, I come from heartaches, I come from sadness, I come from gladness, I… — Mickey Rooney Copy Share Image
Election campaigns seem to siphon away political anger and even basic political intelligence into this great vaudeville, after which we all end… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
as a lobbyist he had long ago concluded there was no difference in how Democrats and Republicans conducted the business of government.… — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
On the Bowery, in the ornate carcass of a formerly grand vaudeville theater, a dance marathon limps along. The contestants, young girls… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
The idea of vaudeville clowns and court jesters is always to show the flaw, to point out what's not working and why… — John Baldessari Copy Share Image
Vaudeville was characterized by sunny optimism, acts that were uplifting, cheerful, and clean. It provided a fanciful, magical escape, but after Black… — Karen Abbott Copy Share Image
The violence or the vaudeville style of comedy is a technique all by itself. You get up there, and you are a… — Leslie Nielsen Copy Share Image
Vaudeville could not vouch for the honesty, the integrity, or the mentality of the individuals who collectively made up the horde the… — Fred Allen Copy Share Image
My mother was in vaudeville, but after she had her children, she quit working. — Dean Stockwell Copy Share Image
If you find yourself concentrating on the technology rather than the sociology, you're like the vaudeville character who loses his keys on… — Tom DeMarco Copy Share Image
I think there's a lot of, unfortunately, unfunny ventriloquists out there, so they've got a bad rap. It came after Edgar Bergen… — Jeff Dunham Copy Share Image
I will step outside the system. Voting for the “lesser evil”-or failing to vote at all-is part of the corporate agenda to… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
Tilting his head back he slowly released an enormous quantity of smoke from his mouth and drew it up through his nostrils.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have never had anything that I can remember in the business - and that includes all the movies and the stage… — Fred Astaire Copy Share Image
For me, my preference for comedy is grounding it in the psychology of the character, and not just kind of making faces.… — Matt McGorry Copy Share Image
When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
No one says a novel has to be one thing. It can be anything it wants to be, a vaudeville show, the… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
NOTORIETY, n. The fame of one's competitor for public honors. The kind of renown most accessible and acceptable to mediocrity. A Jacob's-ladder… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Stargirl began to improvise. She flung her arms to a make-believe crowd like a celebrity on parade. She waggled her fingers at… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
TV - a clever contraction derived from the words Terrible Vaudeville. However, it is our latest medium - we call it a… — Goodman Ace Copy Share Image
