Muppet Show Quotes & Sayings

I think earning money is the simplest thing in the world once you learn how to do it — Bob Proctor

The worst thing about war was the sitting around and wondering what you were doing morally. — Paul Fussell

The Muppet Show is very much seen as an English thing. So for us in the U.K. it is one of the treasures of the history of children's TV and of comedy basically. — James Bobin

I grew up being educated by Sesame Street and gained a sense of humor from The Muppet Show. I'd give my right foot to be able to do a scene or two with the Muppets. — Neil Patrick Harris

You're basically the same person forever so you find the same stuff funny forever. The Muppet Show spoke to me at 5 and it speaks to me in my late 30s in the same way. — James Bobin

Nor can we expect exactly similar results from children whose heredity and experience make them at once more sensitive, more active, and less amenable to — Maria Montessori

In some perfect world where human nature is less messy and history less fraught, any and all people who had ever suffered discrimination would find common cause, gathering together under one big anti-bigotry banner. — Frank Bruni

Never eat more than you can lift.
Miss Piggy (Star of the Muppet Show) — Z. Altug

When The Muppet Show ended, we all sat around and said, what kind of television show would we like to do. We felt the need these days are for some quality children's programming. — Jim Henson

Yeah, I think we did the term Muppets before we got the show Sam and Friends - a few months after I started working. — Jim Henson

I did Nancy Sinatra in Vegas a number of times, and then the Sinatra family, when we did Frankie and the Muppets. Big show in Vegas. — Hal Blaine

Success requires strenuous effort, but it's a proven fact statistically that most people are as lazy as they dare to be and still get by. — James Van Fleet

Putin and his advisers don't understand the power of public opinion in the West. They believe in conspiracy theories and that someone is orchestrating a malicious campaign against Russia. They don't realize that even conservative politicians have to react when newspapers and artists express their concern on such an issue. — Alexei Navalny

We are a heterogeneous society. We have to accept that. Growth has to be such that the most backward sections also benefit from it. Otherwise, it will be a very imbalanced growth. — Baba Kalyani

If you think hard enough about it, Rowlf the dog playing the piano on 'The Muppet Show' - what kind of insanity was happening underneath the cameras to make that happen? His mouth is moving, and he's got two hands playing the piano. That's two people under there! — Rob McClure

When Angkorian society began, Paris and London were not much more than elaborate villages. Europe was crawling with barbarians, and here were the Khmer engineering sophisticated irrigation systems and constructing the biggest temple in the world. — Kim Fay

If The Muppet Show had a basketball team, the score would always be Frog 99, Chaos 98. — Jerry Juhl

There is, it appears, a conspiracy of scientists afoot. Their purpose is to break down religion, propagate immorality, and so reduce mankind to the level of brutes. They are the sworn and sinister agents of Beelzebub, who yearns to conquer the world, and has his eye especially upon Tennessee.] — H.L. Mencken

I think one of the great bits of The Muppet show is that it was set in a 19th century British theater and they live so nicely amongst that lovely old theater. — James Bobin

The Law of Attraction states that you will attract to you those things that match your state of being. If you focus on having gratitude for what you do have, you will feel rich, and you will attract more abundance into your life. If you focus on what you don't have, you will send out a message of lack and you will attract more lack into your life. — Jack Canfield

Who are the moneylenders? They are those who were driven out of the Temple by Christ Himself 2000 years ago. They are those who never work but live on fraud. — Julius Streicher

The voice of America has no undertones or overtones in it. It repeats its optimistic catchwords in a tireless monologue that has the slightly metallic sound of a gramophone. — Vance Palmer

I'll give you the happy ever after, Pigeon. If you just believe in me, I can do it. — Jamie McGuire

His sister, in a big turquoise Angora sweater, leaned upon the wood frame of the open nursery door, anxiously looking out to see if he was really going to show, beaming and waving like a pastel colored TV Muppet when she spotted him. — Alan Moore

Women do it all the time to look younger and it would make perfect sense if one of them ever came out looking younger - but they don't. They just look the same; they all get plastic surgery face. No matter who they look like going in, they all come out looking like the girl from the band on 'The Muppet Show. — Dana Gould

Life is like The Muppet Show, but instead of Muppets there's anxiety. — Dana Gould

But the beauty of Einstein's equations, for example, is just as real to anyone who's experienced it as the beauty of music. We've learned in the 20th century that the equations that work have inner harmony. — Edward Witten

A society or culture which is disposed to view the world in Manichean terms will be more vulnerable to control by propaganda. — Alex Carey

Doing the Muppet Show you forget about conventional filming. — Peter Mayhew