A Quote by Billy Connolly

My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger.

Billy Connolly

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Billy Connolly
Scottish - Comedian
Born: November 24, 1942

An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.

Dan Rather

High culture is the ability to hear the William Tell Overture and not think of the Lone Ranger.

Arthur D. Hlavaty

What's the difference between the Lone Ranger and God? There really is a Lone Ranger.

Edward Abbey

I've been trying to figure out what moment The Lone Ranger came into our lives. We've always just known about The Lone Ranger. It's common knowledge. I don't ever remember watching the television show.

James Badge Dale

My history was the Western. I grew up with the Lone Ranger, the Cisco Kid and Bonanza. I felt as much a child of the West as someone born in Montana or Wyoming.

Clive Sinclair

The only vocal training I had was playing with a tape recorder as a kid, and you know, doing the beginning of the 'Lone Ranger' show, with a hearty hi-o silver, and just having fun, never really thinking I would be an announcer.

Michael Buffer

I felt my cell phone buzz, and I looked at the screen. Ranger. “Your GPS just went blank,” Ranger said when I answered. “The car exploded.” There was a beat of silence. “Rafael won the pool,” Ranger said. “Are you okay?” “Yes.” “I’ll send someone.

Janet Evanovich

The Lone Ranger of vampires. Did that make me Tonto?

Robin McKinley

The first actor I ever saw was The Lone Ranger. I thought: "That's what I want to do."

Michael Caine

Once I got the Lone Ranger role, I didn't want any other.

Clayton Moore

The first actor I ever saw was The Lone Ranger. I thought, That's what I want to do.

Michael Caine

I'm kind of like the Lone Ranger or Batman. I can just go to my mansion and jump out in my uniform and sing on weekends.

John Prine

The old image of Tonto and the Lone Ranger was one that we, as Indian people, didn't care much for; it was kind of a second-class citizen.

Michael Horse

Well, you don't tug on Superman's cape, you don't spit into the wind. You don't pull on the mask of old Lone Ranger and you don't mess around with Jim.

Jim Croce

From William of Orange to William Pitt the younger there was but one man without whom English history must have taken a different turn, and that was William Pitt the elder.