Gong Show Quotes

#1. Certain formats should never be forgotten, 'Blind Date' for instance, because 'Britain's Got Talent' is really 'New Faces' or 'The Gong Show,' whilst we're basically 'Opportunity Knocks.'

Nigel Lythgoe

#2. I helped set The Gong Show. I've done so many game shows. I've helped create game shows.

Jamie Farr

#3. Wine, women and song have been replaced by prune juice, a heating pad and the Gong Show.

Bob Hope

#4. 'Dirty Jobs' is maybe the simplest show in the history of TV, with the possible exception of 'The Gong Show'. I go around the country; we've shot in every state. And we spend a day with people who do jobs that are dirty or dangerous or ridiculous or difficult.

Mike Rowe

#5. The Gong Show provided me with five years of the happiest times of my life, but that's that. And to be known as the guy who gave the world The Gong Show - listen, my Uncle George isn't known as anything. So I guess it isn't so bad in that context.

Chuck Barris

#6. Compared with the BBC's studied neutrality, Fox comes across as a kind of Gong Show of propaganda.

Russ Baker

#7. Billy Carter, who asked his brother Jimmy, Do you think you could get me on the Gong Show? Never got a dinner!

Red Buttons

#8. Politics isn't a reality show or a gong show. It's not show business for ugly people. It's the arena where we define our common life in a rough and ready contest that has winners and losers.

Michael Ignatieff

#9. We are creating a political demolition derby, not a presidential debate. Those strange impulses in the American soul that have produced mud wrestling and The Gong Show seem to have claimed the national campaign.

Hugh Sidey

#10. I never want to hold myself up as the poster child of the successful mother-businesswoman. It's a total 'Gong Show.' I won't pretend. When you do so many things, something always suffers. You just can't be great at everything.

Candice Olson

#11. I practice more than ever ... mostly scales and arpeggios ... and anything I can't do ...

Julian Bream

#12. The only thing that shatters dreams is compromise.

Richard Bach

#13. From a person standpoint, the old expression of what doesn't kill you makes you stronger is somewhat true.

Vince McMahon

#14. I must be the only person of my age who doesn't have a bloody gong. They are so common in show business.

Janet Street-Porter

#15. Like any other tool for facilitating the completion of a questionable task, rewards offer a "how" answer to what is really a "why" question.

Alfie Kohn

#16. I realised, in all humility, that chosing to lead one kind of life means putting aside the desire to pursue other option.

Verghese Kurien

#17. Lenin is an artist who has worked men, as other artists have worked marble or metals. But men are harder than stone and less malleable than iron. There is no masterpiece. The artist has failed. The task was superior to his capacities.

Benito Mussolini

#18. His child was now officially smarter than he was, and he didn't like it.

Kristan Higgins

#19. Prepare for the new; expect the new; embrace the new. Otherwise, you'll just repeat what's old.

Marianne Williamson

#20. To be the people of God without regeneration, is as impossible as to be the children of men without generation.

Richard Baxter

#21. Direct me gods, whose changes are all holy, To where it flickers deep in grass, the moly.

Thom Gunn