Bob Newhart Show Quotes

#1. I left 'The Bob Newhart Show,' which was my decision. CBS wanted it to go on. But I could see television changing; I could see the tastes were changing.

Bob Newhart

#2. I'd like to make a motion that we face reality. - BOB NEWHART, FROM THE BOB NEWHART SHOW

Melody Beattie

#3. I can't do a one-camera show. I don't know how to do that kind of show where you count in your head and then you do the next line.

Bob Newhart

#4. Chuck Lorre and I had been talking about doing one of his shows for a while. I said I'd like to do 'The Big Bang Theory,' because I think it's the best written, most intelligent show on television.

Bob Newhart

#5. I don't have a show anymore. I don't have a check coming in every week. This is important to me, I got to score a million tonight or it could all be over.

Bob Newhart

#6. I have tried at every point to seek God's wisdom on the decisions I made, and I made it my business to speak up on behalf of the things God tells us are important to Him.

Jesse Helms

#7. Taking delight in the journey takes confidence. It pushes the envelope of design.

Seth Godin

#8. To love God is to love His will. It is to wait quietly for life to be measured by One who knows us through and through. It is to be content with His timing and His wise appointment.

Elisabeth Elliot

#9. 'The Mary Tyler Moore Show' was the best television, the best cast, the best-written television show ever.

Bob Newhart

#10. One of the first things you ever learn as a stand-up is don't show fear.

Bob Newhart

#11. The loveliest tinkle as of golden bells answered him. It is the fairy language. You ordinary children can never hear it, but if you were to hear it you would know that you had heard it once before.

J.M. Barrie

#12. I don't know how to do a show not in front of a live audience.

Bob Newhart

#13. I'm very pleased when the smartest people come [to the U.S.] and almost never pleased when the very bottom of the mental barrel comes in ...

Charlie Munger

#14. You do a clean show and it's over and the audience have enjoyed themselves and you've enjoyed yourself, and you haven't had to resort to shock.

Bob Newhart

#15. It's kind of hard coming from 'Saturday Night Live,' which is a sketch-driven show, to a movie.

Bob Newhart

#16. If women could go into your Congress, I think justice would soon be done to the Indians.

Sarah Winnemucca

#17. Buddhism teaches that a craving for things outside ourselves causes an unhappy and pointless search for security. It teaches me to stop following every impulse and to learn restraint. Obviously, I lost track of what I was taught.

Tiger Woods

#18. I've always said people say on a dramatic show, 'I was crying. It was so emotional when he went and grabbed that little girl from a burning building and handed her over to her mother.' In comedy, the best thing you can say is, 'I think it's funny.'

Bob Newhart