Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jean Chretien

A proof is a proof. What kind of a proof? It's a proof. A proof is a proof. And when you have a good proof, it's because it's proven.

Jean Giraudoux

The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that, youve got it made.

James Caan

To get over my divorce, I got a prescription to live at the Playboy Mansion for a while.

James A. Baldwin

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did.

James A. Baldwin

There is a 'sanctity' involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

Jacques Yves Cousteau

May this continent, the last explored by humankind, be the first one to be spared by humankind.

Jackie Gleason

The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.

Jackie Mason

I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something.

Jackie Kennedy

You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.

George Eliot

That quiet mutual gaze of a trusting husband and wife is like the first moment of rest or refuge from a great weariness or a great danger-not to be interfered with by speech or action which would distract the sensations from the fresh enjoyment of repose.

George Eliot

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

Gary Oldman

It's funny: I'm a lifelong musician, but because I principally play the piano it's been a solitary thing.

Gabriel Iglesias

I'll walk up to a woman, I'll say the first thing that comes to mind: 'Hey, you hungry?'

Gabriel Iglesias

I got off the plane - I was walking and cooking at the same time.

Gabriel Iglesias

I'm a big boy, but I can get jiggy with it. Ladies, I will go to dance clubs, and I will tear it up hardcore for a good 30 seconds.

Franz Liszt

I am not fond of speaking about politics because I don't have in my possession an army of 200,000 soldiers.

Fred Armisen

Remember that there's no one way of doing things. ... If you just get a hammer and hit it really hard, whatever it is, I guarantee you it'll open.

Fred Allen

An associate producer is the only guy in Hollywood who will associate with a producer.

Fred Allen

During the Samuel Johnson days they had big men enjoying small talk; today we have small men enjoying big talk.

Fred Allen

A telescope will magnify a star a thousand times, but a good press agent can do even better.

Fred Allen

Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Fred Allen

He has no idea what it was like to grow up in the South, where you had to hold your head down.

Fred Allen

You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a fruit fly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.

Fred Allen

Radio is a bag of mediocrity where little men with carbon minds wallow in sluice of their own making.

Fred Allen

I play a musical instrument a little, but only for my own amazement.

Fred Allen

I don't want to own anything that won't fit into my coffin.

Fred Allen

A gentleman is any man who wouldn't hit a woman with his hat on.

Fred Allen

I have just returned from Boston. It is the only thing to do if you find yourself up there.

Fred Allen

My father never raised his hand to any one of his children, except in self-defense.

Fred Allen

A molehill man is a pseudo-busy executive who comes to work at 9 AM and finds a molehill on his desk. He has until 5 PM to make this molehill into a mountain. An accomplished molehill man will often have his mountain finished before lunch.

Fred Allen

She used to be a teacher but she has no class now.

Fred Allen

He writes so well he makes me feel like putting my quill back in my goose.

Fred Allen

Her hat is a creation that will never go out of style; it will just look ridiculous year after year.