Dick Van Dyke quote: "Probably one of the happiest moments, outside the birth of all of my kids, was the first time we won an Emmy, that the show won an Emmy. That was a big night."

Just knowing you don't have the answers is a recipe for humility, openness, acceptance, forgiven...
DICK VAN DYKE

When I get some budding young comic who'll come up to me and say, 'What was it like to do it...
DICK VAN DYKE

When I was a kid, I loved all the silent comedians - Buster Keaton, Laurel and Hardy, Chaplin. And I...
DICK VAN DYKE

Bob Hope, like Mark Twain, had a sense of humor that was uniquely American, and like Twain, we'l...
DICK VAN DYKE

'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang' was a movie that I repeatedly turned down. The movie's produce...
DICK VAN DYKE

For some reason, as time gets short in life, wasting time escaping through entertainment bothers me.
DICK VAN DYKE

I'm always announcing my retirement. I'm still not retired.
DICK VAN DYKE

I wanted to be a radio announcer.
DICK VAN DYKE

When I was a kid, I had ambitions for being a television announcer, which was before television took...
DICK VAN DYKE

I was the class clown, you know, that kind of thing, and I gathered around me a group of guys who al...
DICK VAN DYKE

Women will never be as successful as men because they have no wives to advise them.
DICK VAN DYKE

When I auditioned for 'Bye Bye Birdie' on Broadway, Gower Champion said, 'You've got...
DICK VAN DYKE

When you're a kid, you lay in the grass and watch the clouds going over, and you literally don&#...
DICK VAN DYKE

The Horny Toad in Cave Creek has great food. When I'm in Arizona, I have at least one meal there...
DICK VAN DYKE

The American people hit the streets and did something that the government wouldn't do: the Civil...
DICK VAN DYKE

I was 5 years old when the stock market crashed; I lost everything.
DICK VAN DYKE

I asked Fred Astaire once when he was about my age if he still danced, and he said 'Yes, but it ...
DICK VAN DYKE

I wanted to be Stan Laurel, then I wanted to be Fred Astaire and then Captain Kangaroo. I actually s...
DICK VAN DYKE

In my seventies, I exercised to stay ambulatory. In my eighties, I exercise to avoid assisted living...
DICK VAN DYKE

No, I did night clubs right here in Los Angeles. My partner, Phil Erickson, put me in the business, ...
DICK VAN DYKE

I pay attention to the news. I take the 'New York Times.' I do the Saturday crossword.
DICK VAN DYKE

Do you know that I was the anchor on the 'CBS Morning Show?' And my newsman was Walter Cronk...
DICK VAN DYKE

I'm crazy about Judi Dench.
DICK VAN DYKE

Television's going, as far as I'm concerned, downhill, and I'm an anachronism.
DICK VAN DYKE

Women will never be as successful as men because they have no wives to advise them.
DICK VAN DYKE

'The Dick Van Dyke Show' was the most fun I ever had and the most creative period of my life...
DICK VAN DYKE

All of us involved say 'The Dick Van Dyke Show' was the best five years of our lives. We wer...
DICK VAN DYKE

Somebody sent me a British magazine listing the 20 worst dialects ever done in movies. I was No. 2, ...
DICK VAN DYKE

I was a 'Laurel and Hardy' nut. I got to know Laurel at the end of his life, and it was a gr...
DICK VAN DYKE

I've had a lot of writers, in particular, who said they got into writing because of the 'Van...
DICK VAN DYKE

I think, the 'Van Dyke Show' and 'Mary Poppins' are two of the best periods of my li...
DICK VAN DYKE

I never had a lot of drive, but because I had family responsibilities, I had a lot of tenacity - the...
DICK VAN DYKE

You know, I'm almost out of the habit of watching episodic television now.
DICK VAN DYKE

Once you get the kids raised and the mortgage paid off and accomplish what you wanted to do in life,...
DICK VAN DYKE

I have four kids, seven grandkids, and four great-grandkids. Maybe I can become a great-great-grandf...
DICK VAN DYKE

I was the worst game show host that ever lived, and I knew it.
DICK VAN DYKE

Stan said he used to keep Hardy late, make him miss his golf game, and really get him mad.
DICK VAN DYKE

In Bernie Sanders, I see a man saying that the emperor has no clothes while everyone around him insi...
DICK VAN DYKE

There's a lot of very funny people I'd love to work with that I've never met, of course....
DICK VAN DYKE

One day in '61, I was looking in the Santa Monica phone book for a number, and there it was: Sta...
DICK VAN DYKE

No, no, it was the relationships. That was that group. People believed that Rob and Laura were reall...
DICK VAN DYKE

My maternal grandfather owned a grocery store that also sold kosher meat. He did well.
DICK VAN DYKE

I've always thought if I could pick my interviewer, it'd be Charlie Rose, who I think is the...
DICK VAN DYKE

My life has been a magnificent indulgence.
DICK VAN DYKE

I love musicals, but I find it's just so deadening. You know, 30 takes, you do a little piece he...
DICK VAN DYKE

The first time I met Mary Tyler Moore, I thought she was just beautiful, but I thought she was a lit...
DICK VAN DYKE

I get little kids who recognize me from 'Mary Poppins,' and it just delights me because it&#...
DICK VAN DYKE

'Mary Poppins' was one of the best experiences of my life.
DICK VAN DYKE

Today, if you're not an alcoholic, you're nobody.
DICK VAN DYKE

I learned everything that I know about comedy and about show business and a lot about life from Carl...
DICK VAN DYKE

I love to harmonize.
DICK VAN DYKE

Here's the truth. Your teens and twenties are your Plan A. At 50, you're assessing whether P...
DICK VAN DYKE

But I wish they would make a musical of some kind. I miss musicals so much. You don't see them a...
DICK VAN DYKE

Bob Hope, like Mark Twain, had a sense of humor that was uniquely American, and like Twain, we'll li...
DICK VAN DYKE

I've won several Emmys, a Tony and a Grammy, so maybe somebody will let me have an Oscar, and th...
DICK VAN DYKE

We had all week to rehearse. An audience would come in at the end of the week and we'd our littl...
DICK VAN DYKE

I like 'The Office.' I particularly like the British version with Ricky Gervais. Of course, ...
DICK VAN DYKE

So at 16 I got a job at the local radio station. And I was working after school and weekends. I did ...
DICK VAN DYKE

Put me on solid ground and I'll start tapping! At my age they say to keep moving.
DICK VAN DYKE

My son Barry, of course, has been on from the beginning. And his son Shane is playing now a med stud...
DICK VAN DYKE

Jon Stewart kills me. I love him. And Bill Maher. He does an hour on HBO. But entirely political. It...
DICK VAN DYKE

Four things a man must learn to doIf he would make his record true:To think without confusion clearl...
HENRY VAN DYKE

Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to live and to work and to play and to look up at th...
HENRY VAN DYKE

I am standing upon the seashore. A ship at my side spreads her white sails to the morning breeze and...
HENRY VAN DYKE

A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war.
HENRY VAN DYKE

Many a treasure besides Ali Baba's is unlocked with a verbal key.
HENRY VAN DYKE

It is with rivers as it is with people: the greatest are not always the most agreeable nor the best ...
HENRY VAN DYKE

To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall reall...
HENRY VAN DYKE

There are two good rules which ought to be written on every heart - never to believe anything bad ab...
HENRY VAN DYKE

Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are...
HENRY VAN DYKE

In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of int...
HENRY VAN DYKE

Love is the best thing in the world, and the thing that lives the longest.
HENRY VAN DYKE

What we do belongs to what we are; and what we are is what becomes of us.
HENRY VAN DYKE

There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bra...
HENRY VAN DYKE

The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between th...
HENRY VAN DYKE

Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the sta...
HENRY VAN DYKE

As long as habit and routine dictate the pattern of living, new dimensions of the soul will not emer...
HENRY VAN DYKE

Time is too slow for those who wait
too swift for those who fear
too long for those who grieve...
HENRY VAN DYKE

Success... it's what you do with what you've got.
LEROY VAN DYKE

Time is Too slow for those who wait, Too swift for those who fear, Too long for those who grieve, To...
HENRY VAN DYKE

Who can explain the secret pathos of Nature's loveliness? It is a touch of melancholy inherited from...
HENRY VAN DYKE

There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift man...
HENRY VAN DYKE

I thank God for the honesty and virility of Jesus religion which makes us face the facts and calls u...
HENRY VAN DYKE

Every house where love abides
And friendship is a guest,
Is surely home, and home, sweet home<...
HENRY VAN DYKE

Gratitude is a twofold love -- love coming to visit us, and love running out to greet a welcome gues...
HENRY VAN DYKE

Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express...
HENRY VAN DYKE

There are two good rules which ought to be written on every heart; never to believe anything bad abo...
HENRY VAN DYKE

There is no personal charm so great as the charm of a cheerful temperament.
HENRY VAN DYKE

The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between th...
HENRY VAN DYKE

Use what talent you possess-the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang b...
HENRY VAN DYKE

Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, to...
HENRY VAN DYKE

Time is too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice...
HENRY VAN DYKE

Commemoration of Douglas Downes, Founder of the Society of Saint Francis, 1957 Who seeks for he...
HENRY VAN DYKE

There is such a thing as taking ourselves and the world too seriously, or at any rate too anxiously....
HENRY VAN DYKE

Feast of Hildegard, Abbess of Bingen, Visionary, 1179 Thou wayfaring Jesus -- a pilgrim and strang...
HENRY VAN DYKE

Who seeks for heaven alone to save his soul, May keep the path, but will not reach the goal; While...
HENRY VAN DYKE

Love is not getting, but giving. Not a wild dream of pleasure and a madness of desire--oh, no--lo...
HENRY VAN DYKE

Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those t...
HENRY VAN DYKE

Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at th...
HENRY VAN DYKE

Tact is the unsaid part of what you think; it's opposite, the unthought part of which you say
HENRY VAN DYKE

Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang...
HENRY VAN DYKE

Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.
HENRY VAN DYKE

Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those tha...
HENRY VAN DYKE

Genius is talent set on fire by courage.
HENRY VAN DYKE

What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But ...
HENRY VAN DYKE

Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.
HENRY VAN DYKE

A friend is what the heart needs all the time.
HENRY VAN DYKE

Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those tha...
HENRY VAN DYKE

Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why.
HENRY VAN DYKE

Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas t...
HENRY VAN DYKE

Self is the only prison that can bind the soul.
HENRY VAN DYKE

I am standing upon the seashore.A ship at my side spreads her whitesails to the morning breeze and s...
HENRY VAN DYKE

Time is
Too Slow for those who Wait,
Too Swift for those who Fear,
Too Long for th...
HENRY VAN DYKE

Oh, London is a man's town, there's power in the air;
And Paris is a woman's town, with flowers...
HENRY VAN DYKE

Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why
HENRY VAN DYKE

There are two good rules which ought to be written on every heart - never to believe anything bad ab...
HENRY VAN DYKE

What we do belongs to what we are; and what we are is what becomes of us
HENRY VAN DYKE

It is with rivers as it is with people: the greatest are not always the most agreeable nor the best ...
HENRY VAN DYKE

Gratitude is a twofold love / love coming to visit us, and love running out to greet a welcome guest...
HENRY VAN DYKE

Genius is talent set on fire by courage
HENRY VAN DYKE

Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are
HENRY VAN DYKE

When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for t...
HENRY VAN DYKE

Many a treasure besides Ali Baba's is unlocked with a verbal key
HENRY VAN DYKE

Love is the best thing in the world, and the thing that lives the longest
HENRY VAN DYKE

Are you willing to believe that love is the strongest thing in the world - stronger than hate, stron...
HENRY VAN DYKE

Use the talents you possess, for the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except the best.
HENRY VAN DYKE

Books are where words live. I read to discover if anybody’s home.
TOM VAN DYKE

Oh, London is a man's town, there's power in the air;
And Paris is a woman's town, with flowers...
HENRY VAN DYKE

Who seeks for heaven alone to save his soul,
May keep the path, but will not reach the goal; HENRY VAN DYKE

But this I know. Those who seek Him will do well to look among the poor and the lowly, the sorrowful...
HENRY VAN DYKE

Son of Krypton!
KIRSTIN VAN DYKE

Oh, leave the gay and festive scenes, The halls of dazzling light.
HENRY JACKSON VAN DYKE

Heaven is blessed with perfect rest but the blessing of earth is toil.
HENRY JACKSON VAN DYKE

The lintel low enough to keep out pomp and pride; The threshold high enough to turn deceit aside; ...
HENRY JACKSON VAN DYKE

Time is Too Slow for those who Wait, Too Swift for those who Fear, Too Long for those wh...
HENRY JACKSON VAN DYKE

I come from New York originally, but Californians have been wonderful about animals. These animals a...
DICK VAN PATTEN

I look back with a mix of emotions: sadness for the people who are gone, nostalgia for times that ha...
DICK VAN PATTEN

If I was good each week, my father would take me to a different pet store each Saturday. I had a sna...
DICK VAN PATTEN

I may eat nine bowls of dog food, because eight isn't enough.
DICK VAN PATTEN

We waited until we perfected the dog food, and then we worked on the cat food. Even though it's ...
DICK VAN PATTEN

I got what they called a diabetic stroke. Here's what it is, my left hand and my left leg. You k...
DICK VAN PATTEN

I was in 27 Broadway plays, and three of them got the Pulitzer Prize.
DICK VAN PATTEN

I remember how my mom would take me on the subway from Queens to Broadway. We'd go to the office...
DICK VAN PATTEN

Jefferson Forest took it to us in the first half. They came out very intense with a great effort.
WARNER DYKE

We could do with beating Sunderland and getting Manchester United away.
GREG DYKE

We would like to be away at Old Trafford, or at Chelsea if they beat Everton.
GREG DYKE

Probably not 'War and Peace,' but probably a lot of sports clips,
GREG DYKE

Now, if that's how she reacted to the arrival of a new television set and having to learn how to use...
GREG DYKE

It's changing faster now than ever because of digital.
GREG DYKE

I'm not going to talk about Hutton now, but I will at some stage. And I don't necessarily accept the...
GREG DYKE

I expected her to be pleased and excited. Sadly, she was no such thing. When it arrived my mother bu...
GREG DYKE

I was number one in the Guardian's top 100 people in the media two years ago. Last year I was number...
GREG DYKE

If Iraq proved anything, it was that the BBC cannot afford to mix patriotism and journalism. This is...
GREG DYKE

We're concerned with the long-term economic prosperity of Rowan County: jobs, jobs, jobs.
DYKE MESSINGER

I'm as excited about this as anything we've ever worked on. There's a lot that's right about the cou...
DYKE MESSINGER

We're not telling the story of Rowan County, and we need to do that.
DYKE MESSINGER

I never paid attention to what was contemporary or what was commercial, it didn't mean anything ...
VAN MORRISON

You take stuff from different places, and sometimes you stick a line in because it rhymes, not becau...
VAN MORRISON

When I started you were more in touch with the people you were playing to. There wasn't the dist...
VAN MORRISON

It was really strange for me when I started to play concerts in America where the audiences were all...
VAN MORRISON

Large audiences did not suit my low-key approach.
VAN MORRISON

You've got to separate the singer and the songs.
VAN MORRISON

If you're a pop singer, you don't need to evolve. You just get a set together, have some hit...
VAN MORRISON

I don't think nostalgia has to be negative.
VAN MORRISON

I'm very lucky, I'm happy with life because my experiences led me to do what I had to do. I ...
VAN MORRISON

What you see is what you get.
VAN MORRISON

The point of jazz is, you do something and then you go on.
VAN MORRISON

There's always got to be a struggle. What else is there? That's what life is made of. I don&...
VAN MORRISON

A famous person to themselves, they don't get up in the morning and think, I'm famous. I'...
VAN MORRISON

Every performance is different. That's the beauty of it.
VAN MORRISON

I just need somewhere to dump all my negativity.
VAN MORRISON

In order to win you must be prepared to lose sometime. And leave one or two cards showing.
VAN MORRISON

If it's what you do and you can do it, then you do it.
VAN MORRISON

I always record far more than I can use. There's probably twice as much recorded as comes out.
VAN MORRISON

Singing is my profession - there is no plan B.
VAN MORRISON

I've never felt like I was born with a silver spoon at all, although I've felt like howling ...
VAN MORRISON

The future is keeping you out of the present time.
VAN MORRISON

You've never seen a Columbine done by a black child. Never. They always say, 'We can't b...
VAN JONES

Let me say what I actually believe. I believe that 9/11 was a conspiracy, by Al Qaeda, and Osama Bin...
VAN JONES

I cannot in good conscience ask my colleagues to expend precious time and energy defending or explai...
VAN JONES

I'm not a success, I'm a sensation.
VAN CLIBURN

An artist can be truly evaluated only after he is dead. At the very 11th hour, he might do something...
VAN CLIBURN

These days politics, religion, media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a ...
VAN MORRISON

If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into...
VAN GOGH

Music is spiritual. The music business is not.
VAN MORRISON

Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it ...
VAN MORRISON

Instinct is action taken in pursuance of a purpose, but without conscious perception of what the pur...
VAN HARTMANN

There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles.
VAN MORRISON

When I started studying tenor saxophone as a kid in Belfast, I did so with a guy named George Cassid...
VAN MORRISON

I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club...
VAN MORRISON

hark, now hear the sailors cry,
smell the sea, and feel the sky
let your soul & spir...
VAN MORRISON

From the dark end of the street -- To the bright side of the road -- We'll be lovers once again on t...
VAN MORRISON

Instinct is action taken in pursuance of a purpose, but without conscious perception of what the p...
VAN HARTMANN

In order to win you must be prepared to lose something. And leave one or two cards showing.
VAN MORRISON

Never before have so many been taken for so much and left with so little.
VAN PANOPOULOS

I think that's the best Tina played all year,
VAN CHANCELLOR

I hadn't slept a wink in a week. I've never been in a game that meant any more to me than this game.
VAN CHANCELLOR

He has a lot of the same skills, just isn't as polished and refined at this point.
VAN COLEMAN

[In] I Forgot That Love Existed, ... If my heart could do the thinking/ And my head begin to feel/ T...
VAN MORRISON

Probably one of the happiest moments, outside the birth of all of my kids, was the first time we won an Emmy, that the show won an Emmy. That was a big night.

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Dick Van Dyke

Probably one of the happiest moments, outside the birth of all of my kids, was the first time we won an Emmy, that the show won an Emmy. That was a big night.

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