Columbo Show Quotes

#1. I've worked with some terrific actors. The list of guys that came on the 'Columbo' show, I mean they were world-class actors from all over the world - Oskar Werner, Laurence Harvey, Donald Pleasence, you know ... foreigners.

Peter Falk

#2. She drew herself up to her full height - it was a little difficult on a donkey - and said primly, I have always found that in painful situations it is a sensible idea to take each hour as it comes and not to anticipate beyond. But oh how I wish I could have a bath!

Dorothy Gilman

#3. The studio rented a house for my wife in Los Angeles under a phony name to keep reporters away. Whenever I wanted to visit her and my children, I would have to sneak in the back door after dark.

Max Von Sydow

#4. The Internet in the 21st Century is as important to our future as highways were in the 20th Century. Like a highway, the Internet must remain free and open for all - not determined by the highest bidders.

Chuck Schumer

#5. 'Parkland' is not out to pick a fight and start a dialogue about conspiracy.

Peter Landesman

#6. I mean, language fascinates me anyway, and different words have different energies and you can change the whole drive of a sentence.

Alan Rickman

#7. I'm not for a temporary war tax. We're putting actual dollars in one way or the other, and so if we're gonna look at taxes, we ought to look at a comprehensive tax reform policy.

Stephen Pagliuca

#8. We mutinied quietly, using every lesson we'd been taught by every person who'd ever used us for their own benefit.

Laura Wiess

#9. Electing Sudan to the U.N. body mandated to promote and protect human rights worldwide is like putting Jack the Ripper in charge of a women's shelter.

Hillel Neuer

#10. Writing with one pencil in hand is so much easier than the choosing of 114 buttons to press in series for an extended period of time.

Robert N. Franz

#11. Listen Columbo you're mad because your money come slow
And what you make in a year I make in one show

Big L

#12. He swung so hard, you could've turned him upside down and shaken every piece of change out of his pocket, and he would have never missed a beat.

James Kaplan

#13. After all, I have spent the better part of my adult life insisting that government be open ... that government be accessible ... and that government be held accountable to people who voted us into office.

Roy Barnes

#14. I've grown up playing pop music for the experimental crowd and I always feel like I'm pushing something weird on people. I had this underdog feeling. It's crazy that all of a sudden I'm the overhyped band you read about on the blogs.

Girl Talk

#15. And then something invisible snapped insider her, and that which had come together commenced to fall apart.

John Green

#16. The burning gaze of a young woman, such as hath tasted man, shall not escape me; for I have a spirit keen to mark these things.

Aeschylus

#17. The problem of the hero is to pierce himself (and therewith his world) precisely through that point; to shatter and annihilate that key knot of his limited existence.

Joseph Campbell