#celebrated

Newspaper people, once celebrated as founts of ribald humor and uncouth fun, have of late lost all their gaiety, and small wonder. ↗

— Russell Baker

#fun #gaiety #humor #late #lost

Our religion is itself profoundly sad - a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity, grants full liberty to the individual and asks no better than to be celebrated in each man's own language - so long as he knows anguish and is a painter. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#asks #because #better #catholicity #celebrated

It's strange because even in the vaudeville days, ventriloquists were never the main attraction. They were the guys brought out to stand in front of the curtain while sets were being changed. Ventriloquism wasn't even celebrated as an art until Edgar Bergen came along in the 1930s. ↗

— Jeff Dunham

#art #attraction #because #being #brought

When I celebrated my bar mitzvah, there was no cake. Today, there is no such thing as a bar mitzvah in the United States without a special cake. It can be even more complicated and expensive than a wedding cake, because bar-mitzvah cakes are often based on a particular theme. ↗

— Ron Ben-Israel

#bar mitzvah #based #because #cake #cakes

Some books claim I have already clocked up a century of Grands Prix, but let me put the record straight. Australia will be my 100th start, and I aim to mark the milestone with a cracking performance. It could even be celebrated with a victory. ↗

— Damon Hill

#already #australia #books #celebrated #century

By 1969, when I celebrated 45 years in the music business, I also had 45 people in our musical family. ↗

— Lawrence Welk

#business #celebrated #family #had #i

Celebrity - I don't even know what that means. Obviously it's the same basic word as celebration, but I don't know what's being celebrated. ↗

— James Woods

#being #celebrated #celebration #celebrity #even

I celebrated Thanksgiving in an old-fashioned way. I invited everyone in my neighborhood to my house, we had an enormous feast, and then I killed them and took their land. ↗

— Jon Stewart

#celebrated #enormous #everyone #feast #had

The consolidation of the music business has made it difficult to encourage styles like the blues, all of which deserve to be celebrated as part of our most treasured national resources. ↗

— Bonnie Raitt

#business #celebrated #consolidation #deserve #difficult

To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days. ↗

— Plutarch

#celebrated #childhood #continue #days #ignorant