Quotes About Tiny Tim

#1. My very first acting role was Tiny Tim in 'A Christmas Carol.'

Leland Orser

#2. Every generation gets the Tiny Tim it deserves.

Gore Vidal

#3. Tiny Tim? Anyone could sing like that. It's atrocious. It's hideous, really.

Maurice Gibb

#4. And it was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us! And so, as Tiny Tim observed, God bless Us, Every One!

Charles Dickens

#5. My tolerance for crazy people is, I think, high a tolerance as you're ever going to find. I love being around David Allen Coe. I would have loved to hang out with Tiny Tim. I can listen to Sun Ra on a tape-recording rant.

Penn Jillette

#6. A Merry Christmas to us all, my dears. God bless us!" Which all the family re-echoed. "God bless us every one!" said Tiny Tim, the last of all.

Charles Dickens

#7. The style sounded like I look. What good would it do if I sounded like Sinatra? People would look at me and look at him and choose him.

Tiny Tim

#8. As long as my voice is here, and there is a Holiday Inn waiting for me, then everything's just swell.

Tiny Tim

#9. I remember in '37 when trolley cars were so big in New York. It was five cents for a ride ... There used to be open-air buses, and you could go up a spiral staircase and sit up on top. Those were great, great days.

Tiny Tim

#10. Three things cannot be called back: the arrow when it speeds from the bow, the milk when the churn is upturned, the word when it leaps from the tongue.

Stephen R. Lawhead

#11. Don't bury me with anyone old.

Tiny Tim

#12. Death is never polite, even when we expect it.

Tiny Tim

#13. What a conceited ass. I like eye candy as much as the next girl, but you soon learn the truth about candy." ~ Jay
He laughs louder this time. "What? That it melts in your mouth and not in your hand?" ~ Kane

Nicole Reed

#14. They rock against each other, holding on, and the birds in the forest raise their voices to drown out the secret of creation.

Barbara Kingsolver

#15. Rather than do anything to draw his attention to me, I sat back and watched as he gave a row of metal chairs the worst beating of their inanimate lives, thrashing them into tiny pieces and stomping them into the carpeted floor.

Tim Marquitz

#16. Remember, it's better to be a has-been than a never-been.

Tiny Tim

#17. It's true that you need much time to get rid of the fat girl you once were, but you know I am sincerely grateful for my buttocks.

Kate Winslet

#18. Things remain paranormal, as long as we scientists don't reveal the underlying physical processes.

Abhijit Naskar

#19. And the sun on the wall of her room, the block of sun with all the tiny flying things in it. When she was little she thought they were the souls of dead insects, still buzzing in the light.

Tim Winton

#20. In order to have a TV series, you have to have a good idea for the story.

Tiny Tim

#21. Back of the beating hammer By which the steel is wrought, Back of the workshop's clamor The seeker may find the thought.

Berton Braley

#22. I wish I could set deadlines for the Congress, but that's just not the way the Constitution is written.

Robert M. Gates

#23. I would warn my brethren and sisters to never flatter persons because of their ability; for they cannot bear it. Self is easily exalted, and in consequence, persons lose their balance.

Ellen G. White

#24. Believe it or not, I'd love to go to the moon.

Tiny Tim

#25. I was trying to find an original style that didn't sound like Tony Bennett or anyone else. So I prayed about it, woke up with this high voice, and by 1954, I was going to amateur nights and winning.

Tiny Tim

#26. Keep walking and keep smiling.

Tiny Tim

#27. Do we choose sleep? Hell no and bullshit - we fall. We give ourselves over to possibility, to whim and fancy, to the bed, to the pillow, the tiny white tablet. And these choose for us.

Tim O'Brien

#28. I'd love to see Christ come back to crush the spirit of hate and make men put down their guns. I'd also like just one more hit single.

Tiny Tim

#29. We are born to love as we are born to die, and between the heartbeats of those two great mysteries lies all the tangled undergrowth of our tiny lives. There is nowhere to go but through. And so we walk on, lost, and lost again, in the mapless wilderness of love.

Tim Farrington

#30. She's the only girl who's ever broken my heart, and it's a very weird, uncomfortable feeling for me. I like to be the one doing the heartbreaking. Well, not really. No one ever likes to break someone's heart, but sometimes it has to be done.

Lauren Barnholdt

#31. If your kitchen smells good, your food lost something.

Nathan Myhrvold

#32. I'm the first has-been star singer ever to sing with the circus. I mean, Presley sang with the circus, but that was before he became a star.

Tiny Tim

#33. Be content to be what you are; shiny stones and silver bangles only make you look what you really are.

Tiny Tim

#34. What did the candles smell like?" she asked.
Was she kidding me?
"Like Eau du Zombie. I don't know.

Karina Halle

#35. There was a combination of not wanting to look a gift horse in the mouth, but also really not wanting to be stuck in Lord of the Rings for the rest of my life, and being desperate to kind of make sure that I could do something else with my life.

Sean Astin

#36. I had simply been inspired by Arthur Godfrey (40's) and Ukulele Ike and Cliff Edwards (20's). In there day, they were huge in this country. I bought Godfrey's book "You Too Can Learn To Play Ukulele" and taught myself. It's a very romantic instrument. You can take it on a canoe.

Tiny Tim

#37. Write it
Like it
Read it
Hate it
Rewrite it
Done

Steven M. Nedeau

#38. It wasn't that I had any great dream of being an architect. I just wanted to make things. Whether it was furniture, painting, interior design, or architecture. I just wanted to create something.

Tadao Ando

#39. I hope I don't give music a bad name.

Tiny Tim

#40. The prosecution wants to make sure the process by which the evidence was obtained is not truthfully presented, because, as often as not, that process will raise questions.

Alan Dershowitz

#41. When I look at great singers like Sinatra, Bennett and (Tom) Jones, I see great performers that can really move an audience. I really consider myself a troubadour privately and a song-plugger publicly.

Tiny Tim