Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Lynde

I sang in the choir for years, even though my family belonged to another church.

Paul McCartney

Somebody said to me, 'But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, 'Now, let's write a swimming pool.'

Paul McCartney

It (LSD) opened my eyes. We only use one-tenth of our brain. Just think of what we could accomplish if we could only tap that hidden part! It would mean a whole new world if the politicians would take LSD. There wouldn't be any more war or poverty or famine.

Patty Duke

I joke around a lot about the manic times because they're funny. We manics do outrageous things and it is part of our colorful nature.

Paulette Goddard

I don't accept flowers. I take nothing perishable.

Mel Gibson

After about 20 years of marriage, I'm finally starting to scratch the surface of what women want. And I think the answer lies somewhere between conversation and chocolate.

Mel Brooks

Coleman Jacoby and Arnie Rosen won an Emmy and Mel Brooks didn't! Niezsche was right! There is no God! There is no God!

Mel Brooks

Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive.

Mel Brooks

If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.

Mel Brooks

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.

Mel Brooks

I don't know what to say so I'll just say what's in my heart...badoom, badoom, badoom.

God is at home, it's we who have gone out for a walk.

Mary Daly

I had explained that a woman's asking for equality in the church would be comparable to a black person's demanding equality in the Ku Klux Klan

Marty Feldman

I won't eat anything that has intelligent life, but I'd gladly eat a network executive or a politician.

Martina Navratilova

Whoever said, 'It's not whether you win or lose that counts,' probably lost.

Pietro Aretino

If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them.

History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.

Rachel Caine

Damn, Claire. Warn a guy before you do a face-plant on the floor next time. I could have looked all heroic and caught you or something -Shane

Pete Seeger

I never intended to make a living from music. That's the funny thing. I wanted to be a journalist.

Pete Dye

The ardent golfer would play Mount Everest if somebody put a flagstick on top.

Phil Rizzuto

I'm glad I don't play anymore. I could never learn all those handshakes.

Peter Shaffer

All my wife has ever taken from the Mediterranean - from that whole vast intuitive culture - are four bottles of Chianti to make into lamps, and two china condiment donkeys labelled Sally and Peppy.

Quentin Crisp

An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.

Quentin Crisp

The trouble with children is that they're not returnable.

Quentin Crisp

There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse.

Quentin Crisp

Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.

Quentin Crisp

However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.

Quentin Crisp

Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Quentin Crisp

If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

Prince Harry

To be honest dinner conversations was the worst bit about being a child and listening to the boring people around me.

Prince William

As I learned from growing up, you don't mess with your grandmother.

Prince

Act your age, not your shoe size.

Prince Philip

I never see any home cooking - all I get is fancy stuff.