Dummy Quotes

"I guess this is a bad time to mention I hung a dummy and painted Seneca Crane's name on it," I say. (Suzanne Collins)
This is Graceland. Home of the most famous musician in the world.” "Michael Jackson lived here?” "No, dummy,” Carter said. "Elvis Presley. View quote
Rick Riordan
I think when we use 'stress', we are often using a kind of dummy word to try to fit many different things into one big category. View quote
Siddhartha Mukherjee
You're alive!" Fezzik cried. The man in black sat immobile, like a ventriloquist's dummy, just his mouth moving. "That is perhaps the most childishly obvious remark I have ever come across... View quote
William Goldman
Dummy, dummy, go out now and fill your tummy. View quote
William Goldman
I was a dummy in school. View quote
Alan Ladd
It's true, you can never eat a pet you name. And anyway, it would be like a ventriloquist eating his dummy. View quote
Alexander Theroux
Who's the dummy writing this show?! View quote
Mel Brooks
Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture. View quote
Ezra Pound
I had an idyllic childhood and when my parents bought me a Punch and Judy Show and a ventriloquist's dummy, I'd perform anywhere, anytime. My parents were wonderful when I told them I wanted to be an entertainer. View quote
Ken Dodd
I couldn't do ventriloquism. I don't have any interest in splitting myself in two, the way a ventriloquist does - half-himself, half the dummy on his knee. (Jim Henson)
Interview to the newspaper "Week" [Russian: "Неделя"/Nedelya], 1978: -They say you started singing from the cradle? -Couldn't do it in the cradle: the dummy was in the way. View quote
Sofia Rotaru
I like a bush. A nice big, hairy, stinky, smelly fucking bush. And I hate when they put cologne on it. They dummy it up with cologne like you don't know where you are. I like that nice natural scent of salmon. View quote
Andrew Dice Clay
Would you buy a book proudly stating on the cover that its reader is a dummy? Or would you think "of course it's ironic"? View quote
Erik Naggum
Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy. View quote
Isaac Newton
I'm sorry Finn. I'm a wooden-headed dummy.' Don't be so hard on yourself,' said Finn. 'You're just a straw-brained scarecrow. View quote
Shannon Hale
CPR dummy looked like him and had clearly been stabbed. Repeatedly. In the groin. He thought she might have used the dummy for target practice, and tried not to be offended. Key word: tried. View quote
Gena Showalter
We're not leaving here without Buster, man. Leave no crash-test dummy behind! View quote
Adam Savage
When there's not ten feet of snow on the ground I ride my bike down the streets of New York, and I literally hear two things out of car windows as cabs pass by me: They either yell, "Hey, dummy," or "Hey, Mayhem." View quote
Dean Winters
Smartphones. Who cares? Smartphones. I only have dummy phones. View quote
Don Rickles
Men and swords. My father said that if you put any able-bodied man, no matter how peaceful, into a room with a sword and a practice dummy and leave him alone, eventually the man would pick up the sword and try to stab the dummy. It is human nature. (Ilona Andrews)
I saw the Nutcracker to be a dummy as I thought of its mouth moving like a nutcracker - and also find them pretty scary as they almost have a life of their own. View quote
Matthew Bourne
Of course, I'm no dummy. View quote
Paul Thomas Anderson
My goal was to prove to my family I wasn't a dummy. View quote
Roger Goodell
Dummy Dum Dum was my nickname for years at school. I was the strange one of the family, the one who couldn't remember his name. View quote
John Lydon