Quotes About Ventriloquism

#1. Magic in cinema is a bit like ventriloquism on the radio.

Jeanine Basinger

#2. Here's something you never hear: Now that I've worked through all my emotional issues, I'm free to dedicate my life to ventriloquism!

Dana Gould

#3. Channeling is just bad ventriloquism. You use another voice, but people can see your lips moving.

Penn Jillette

#4. I remember as a kid watching TV and seeing Mel Blanc doing his voices and Paul Winchell doing his ventriloquism and thinking, 'Those guys are having a good time. I want to do that.'

Jim Cummings

#5. There exists a species of transcendental ventriloquism by means of which men can be made to believe that something said on earth comes from Heaven.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

#6. Ventriloquism today is in a slump.

Paul Winchell

#7. It's strange because even in the vaudeville days, ventriloquists were never the main attraction. They were the guys brought out to stand in front of the curtain while sets were being changed. Ventriloquism wasn't even celebrated as an art until Edgar Bergen came along in the 1930s.

Jeff Dunham

#8. My puppets are far more liberated than I am. Ventriloquism is a useful way of expressing myself.

Nina Conti

#9. I think maybe one reason why ventriloquists are looked down on is because it's very difficult to be funny. I think what happens is that people get a dummy, they learn the technique of ventriloquism, they memorize the script, they think they're in show business.

Jeff Dunham

#10. But the mechanics of learning to 'throw your voice' are pretty simple. Anyone with a tongue, an upper palate, teeth, and a normal speaking voice can learn ventriloquism.

Jeff Dunham

#11. who speaks without moving his or her lips | related word: ventriloquism ****** LOG Origin: Greek Meaning: thought Examples: dialogue -- conversation or discussion | related word: lexically epilogue -- words that are

Manik Joshi

#12. When I was in third grade I taught myself ventriloquism ... What's hard is to learn to be an entertainer and make people laugh. I was a few years out of college before I felt I had enough material. Then in 1988 I moved to L.A. and started to do some shows at comedy clubs.

Jeff Dunham

#13. I love anything to do with ventriloquism and magic.

Illeana Douglas

#14. But the lucidity of her old age allowed her to see, and she said so many times, that the cries of children in their mothers' wombs are not announcements of ventriloquism or a faculty for prophecy but an unmistakable sign of an incapacity for love.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#15. Her eyes were springs from which ecstasy drew water.

Yasmina Khadra

#16. The whole bullying issue has really struck a nerve with me. It affects so many different types of people at a vital time in their lives.

Kenny Wormald

#17. Then you realize that the preparation and the planning of this small army of people trying to head to the single aim of creating a work that's going to excite people is very risky. Of course, the odds are that it's not going to work out because there are too many possibilities of it going wrong.

Ciaran Hinds

#18. The future vibrated with uncertainty. I had failed. I had ignorance. I had hope.

Sean Ferrell

#19. 99% of businesses fail for one reason. They never start.

David Hieatt

#20. Your danger is something other than death, and uglier. Because she will try to change you - to arouse something in you that should never be awakened.

Jack Williamson

#21. Late 19th-century populists saw bankers and industrialists manipulating markets to enrich themselves at the expense of small farmers and labourers and favoured political candidates promising economic relief through free and unlimited coinage of silver.

Robert Dallek

#22. God never violates the trust we put in Him.

Neva Coyle

#23. Do no cheat thy Heart and tell her, 'Grief will pass away.'

Adelaide Anne Procter

#24. Be a mentor to others. Your most important legacy is preparing new leaders to carry on your goals.

Ellen Sauerbrey