"Comedians are innately programmed to pick up oddities……" — Bob Newhart
"Comedians are innately programmed to pick up oddities like mispronounced words, upside-down books on a shelf, and generally undetectable mistakes in everyday life."
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63 Quotes by Bob Newhart
Bob Newhart has 63 quotes on this site.
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I still feel thirty, except when I try to run.
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I've been married forty-five years. I think laughter is the secret.
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Well, if you’re a native Chicagoan, you know how dumb he [Dr. Robert Hartley] is. He gets on the Ravenswood…
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I'm one of those passengers who arrives at the airport five or six hours early so I can throw back…
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People with a sense of humor tend to be less egocentric and more realistic in their view of the world…
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The first time I got up in front of an audience was terror, abject terror, which continued for another four…
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When I started out in 1960, I thought it might possibly last a couple of years. I never expected it…
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But I really believe that if you have the ability, there is an obligation to make people laugh
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Jack Benny was, without a doubt, the bravest comedian I have ever seen work. He wasn't afraid of silence. He…
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I was influenced by every comedian I ever saw work. That's the only way you learn how to do it.
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I wasn't much good. When I went into the line on a fake - I would holler 'I don't have…
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I worked in accounting for two and a half years, realized that wasn't what I wanted to do with the…
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More Books Quotes
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Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
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Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to…
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I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is…
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I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was,…
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I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books.
— Margaret Atwood
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Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the…
— Margaret Atwood
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Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But…
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I have been known to buy e-versions of my books because I was in a hotel room and I needed…
— Margaret Atwood
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I know that some books and some writers, you can pretty much draw a square around it and say, 'Nobody…
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If you feel that there's the author and then the character, then the book is not working. People have a…
— Margaret Atwood
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Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Although most products will soon be too costly to purchase, there will be a thriving market in the sale of…
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