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The good Samaritan, he's getting dressed, he's getting ready for the show. He's going to the carnival tonight on Desolation Row.
~ Bob Dylan
Media over here, coming to ya like a world premiere. Trench coat and my underwear, let's go with this freak show.
~ Britney Spears
I'd been used to this idea of destructive performance art instead of a slick, good-sounding show. So, I became frustrated as I felt I'd been doing the shows wrong. That sucked.
~ Erika M. Anderson
I remember Steve Kaufman as the artist on Saturday Night Live doing the Pop Art portraits for the show.
~ Joe Piscopo
I think casting a show is an art form in and of itself. We're all so different - the cast is made up partly of real stand-ups, partly of actors, and then partly of just legendary actors.
~ Ari Graynor
I learned this from a show called Captain Video, featuring a man named, oddly, Captain Video
~ Dave Barry
Many of us hold ourselves back from imagining a desired outcome unless someone can show us how to get there. Unfortunately, that's backward in terms of how our minds work to generate and recognize solutions and methods.
~ David Allen
let's discuss the purpose of this presentation. If we're here for the team to put on a show for me, then you're right, I should sit back and listen. But if the point is for me to learn about your business and its issues, then we need to conduct the presentation in a way that facilitates my learning. I need to ask questions right away, get the answers I need, and then move on.
~ David Cote
Someday you'll have to show me how you did that, Asharak was saying. I found the experience interesting. My horse had hysterics, however. My apologies to your horse.
~ David Eddings
Seems, madam? Nay, it is; I know not seems. 'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, Nor customary suits of solemn black, Nor windy suspiration of forced breath, No, nor the fruitful river in the eye, Nor the dejected 'havior of the visage, Together with all forms, moods, shapes of grief, That can denote me truly: these indeed seem, For they are actions that a man might play: But I have that within which passeth show; These but the trappings and the suits of woe.
~ William Shakespeare
So may the outward shows be least themselves: The world is still deceived with ornament. In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt, But, being seasoned with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil? In religion, What damned error, but some sober brow Will bless it and approve it with a text, Hiding the grossness with fair ornament? There is no vice so simple but assumes Some mark of virtue on his outward parts.
~ William Shakespeare
and then, in dreaming, The clouds methought would open and show riches Ready to drop upon me, that when I waked I cried to dream again.
~ William Shakespeare
The small amount of foolery wise men have makes a great show.
~ William Shakespeare
I am settled, and bend up each corporal agent to this terrible feat. Away, and mock the time with fairest show: False face must hide what the false heart doth know.
~ William Shakespeare
Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep; And in his simple show he harbours treason.
~ William Shakespeare
I do I know not what, and fear to find Mine eye too great a flatterer for my mind. Fate, show thy force. Ourselves we do not owe. What is decreed must be; and be this so.
~ William Shakespeare
We do it wrong, being so majestical, To offer it the show of violence, For it is as the air, invulnerable, And our vain blows malicious mockery.
~ William Shakespeare
The most peaceable way for you, if you do take a thief, is, to let him show himself what he is and steal out of your company.
~ William Shakespeare
Nature can put on a thrilling show. The stage is vast, the lighting is dramatic, the extras are innumerable, and the budget for special effects is absolutely unlimited.
~ Yann Martel
The Gong Show was the greatest scam of all time. It was simple: We wanted to do a talent show. There weren't any venues for acts back then. We were gonna have a show of new, fresh, good acts. But we couldn't find any; they were all lousy. So rather than throw away the idea, I said, "Let's reverse it. Let's do lousy acts." Now, is that a scam? I'm telling you.
~ Chuck Barris
The sun rose like a stripper, keeping its glory well covered by cloud till it seemed there'd be no show at all.
~ Clive Barker
Eventually, with new Entertainment-dedicated technologies already on the horizon, the Warhol vision would come about, and everyone would have a show of their own. Eventually the old world would be cut quite loose. Performance Mirrors face to face, the shows would reflect one another until there was 'nothing but interviews, appearances, and acts. In full development, the whole industrial and technical base of contemporary society would be committed to support this new pyramid culture'.
~ Unknown
pity was insatiable—a false virtue that always craved more suffering to show how limitless and magnificent it could be.
~ Unknown
The prose," Robespierre said. "It's so clean, no conceits, no show, no wit. He means every word. Formerly, you see, he meant every other word. That was his style.
~ Hilary Mantel