Famous Quotes & Sayings

When you worked in a studio it was the studio system that you kind of missed because it was a big, big family. I mean MGM had 5,000 people working a day there. You miss it.

I've had 79 to 80 years of show business. I started when I was 5 with a man called Tom Mix. I didn't have time to go to school because I was in silent movies, I was in radio, I was in burlesque, I worked with the circus. I'm all show business!

Greg Fitzsimmons

Since first hearing the story as a child, any mention of the 'Boston Tea Party' has elicited in me an excitement that is uniquely American. When I heard rumblings that there was a new Tea Party, I got goose bumps. I love tea, I love parties, I hate taxes; I'm in! It seemed that most of America joined in my excitement!

Gary McCord

He's a threat to win until his brain turns to tapioca.

Gary Burton

I felt like I was a teacher. But nowadays, I am as much a student of his. He writes a lot of what we play.

Gene Oliver

My past is my wisdom to use today... my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because that is where life resides.

Gene Mauch

Losing streaks are funny. If you lose at the beginning you got off to a bad start. If you lose in the middle of the season, you're in a slump. If you lose at the end, you're choking.

Gene Clark

The actual writing of a song usually comes in the form of a realisation. I can't contrive a song.

Future historians trying to determine what it was like to be alive in fin de millennium America should read the last two decades of O. Henry and Best American short-story collections.

When Captain America is in a room full of Marvel superheroes, he is always Top Dog, even though his powers are pretty modest. He could be stood next to Thor, Iron Man, whoever. He is the one that everyone looks up to. To me, that is Superman, too. Even de-powered in the Legion arc, he was still Superman. Still Top Dog.

Hank Stram

We knew we had to go through Oakland to win the championship, and they knew they had to go through Kansas City. That made it a very bitter rivalry.

James Howard Kunstler

We have created thousands and thousands of places in America that aren't worth caring about, and when we have enough of them, we're going to have a country that's not worth defending.

We're trying to inspire young people with stories of the kid next door and to make America proud of the kid next door. That's why we're featuring these real heroes.

Al Unser

I tell all the rookies that come into our series and all the young drivers they can come ask me anything at any time, and we'll give them the straight shoot.

Al Unser

I wouldn't mind meeting Eddie Van Halen. That would be great. We need to invite him to a race.

Al Unser

The only thing that's changed is the competitiveness of the series. It's only become harder to win in our series as the years have gone by. Competition breeds good things, and that's what's happened here.

Al Unser

I've got a great team of engineers behind this race car. I've got a great bunch of mechanics that make it reliable. This car is developed to go out there and be better than the Reynard, and I feel that it is.

Al McGuire

I think the world is run by 'C' students.

Alan Dundes

There is more to folklore research than fieldwork. This is why in all of my other upper-division courses I require a term paper involving original research.

Alan Dundes

Their term project consists of a fieldwork collection of folklore that they create by interviewing family members, friends, or anyone they can manage to persuade to serve as an informant.

Rocco DiSpirito

After guest appearances, I got the offer to do the show as the successor of Arthur Schwartz. It's so much fun.

Rocco DiSpirito

I definitely think there was some overacting on the part of the customers and the wait staff. The people who came in during the shooting were clearly there to have a moment on television, and that's fine.

Emma Goldman

If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution.

Emo Philips

I love to go to the playground and watch the children jumping up and down. They don't know I'm firing blanks.

Joey Adams

People are still willing to do an honest day's work. The trouble is they want a week's pay for it.

Joe E. Lewis

Whenever someone asks me if I want water with my Scotch, I say I'm thirsty, not dirty.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains.

Marianne Williamson

America won't be saved because one or 10 people stand up. It will be saved because millions of us stand up.

Henry Rollins

America sold VX nerve gas and anthrax to Iraq for years, even after the Halabja gas attack, which killed thousands of Kurds.

Bob Gibson

A great catch is like watching girls go by the last one you see is always the prettiest.

Bob Shacochis

I consider myself a writer who writes about American expatriates. And if I have any overt cause as a writer besides writing the best prose I can, it's to try to make Americans have a more visceral feeling about how America impacts everybody in the world.

Bill Terry

I played baseball because I could make more money doing that than I could doing anything else.

Bill Terry

Baseball must be a great game to survive the fools who run it.