Vaudevillian Quotes

#1. Shamanism is just show business and philosophy is just a branch of that vaudevillian impulse.

Terence McKenna

#2. I never cared about making one coherent masterpiece with a conventional narrative. I always wanted my movies to have images falling from all directions in a vaudevillian way. If you didn't like what was happening in one scene, you could just snooze through it until the next scene.

Harmony Korine

#3. It's easy to get distracted by the vaudevillian aspects of the healthcare debate.

Carl Hiaasen

#4. I aim to please. I'm nothing if not a vaudevillian.

Craig Ferguson

#5. When I used to watch vaudevillian impressionists, people like Rich Little or Frank Gorshin, I always felt like the voice was the only point. I didn't want to do that. I wanted to be of the Robin Williams or Jonathan Winters model, where observation and storytelling was important.

Frank Caliendo

#6. I'm proud of being a vaudevillian, the last of my line. A lot of people think my entertainment is candy-floss. Well, entertainment is too aggressive these days, all 'in your face'.

Eric Sykes

#7. With Clinton, of course, the term "world stage" was peculiarly literal: he had a fading vaudevillian's desperation to be loved.

Mark Steyn

#8. Women see through each other, but they rarely look into themselves.

Theodor Reik

#9. I spent months fighting the fact that she had a personality disorder, but everything changed when I started asking myself how I had to adapt to work with a boss like her.

John Izzo

#10. Few things under heaven bring more benefit than the lessons learned from silence and the actions taken without striving.

Laozi

#11. The hippies saw it and lived it for a few shining moments, but the old stories were too strong. Instead of the hippies pulling us all into a new world, we dragged them back into ours. The

Charles Eisenstein

#12. as she slept, her period came because bodies know nothing about timing, bodies, awful bodies. They put a Rorschach between your thighs and stain your sheets to remind you that all you're doing is bleeding and dying if you're not making more life. That

Catherine Lacey

#13. If anyone comes to me, I want to lead them to Him.

Edith Stein

#14. I made a mistake. That happens. It proves I'm human, which you know, for some people, is a revelation.

Hillary Clinton

#15. The spiritually starving hesitate to partake of the Spirit like a child's reaction to new and strange food. They must be offered a tiny bite on a spoon.

Boyd K. Packer