Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard M. Nixon

Solutions are not the answer.

Richard M. Nixon

I was under medication when I made the decision to burn the tapes.

Richard M. Nixon

This is a great day for France!

Richard M. Nixon

Federal and state laws (should) be changed to no longer make it a crime to possess marijuana for private use.

Richard M. Nixon

In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.

Richard Russo

People often ask me how I make things funny. I don't make things funny.

Reba McEntire

It's funny how many people will come to Vegas to see your show where they might not come out to see you unless you come to their hometown.

Robert Crumb

I guess I didn't enjoy drawing very much. It was like homework.

Robert De Niro

I guess the only thing to do now is meet his parents. I'm sure they're decent people. I mean they gotta be if they named their son Gaylord Focker.

Robert De Niro

According to a new survey, women say they feel more comfortable undressing in front of men than they do undressing in front of other women. They say that women are too judgmental, where, of course, men are just grateful.

Roald Dahl

Don't gobblefunk around with words.

Roald Dahl

A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.

Richard Pryor

I'd like to make you laugh for about ten minutes though I'm gonna be on for an hour.

Richard Pryor

I had to stop drinkin, cuz I got tired of waking up in my car driving ninety.

Richard Pryor

I ain't no movie star, man. I'm a booty star.

Richard Pryor

I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, I wanna grow up and be a critic.

Richard Pryor

I went to Zimbabwe. I know how white people feel in America now; relaxed! Cause when I heard the police car I knew they weren't coming after me!

Richard Lamm

Christmas is the time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell government what they want and their kids pay for it.

Tucker Carlson

Billy Tauzin is one of the most interesting people in Washington. He is smart, funny, and interesting.

Trey Parker

It's funny because I think a lot of it is simply... We've never considered ourselves satirists, but because we're on Comedy Central and because we're South Park on Comedy Central, we can do any topic we want.

Trey Parker

No, writing musicals is the hardest thing in the world. And it was really funny, because I remember when the South Park movie came out, there were some critics that said, 'Well it's obvious that in order to get it to be 90 minutes they filled some time with music.'

Saul Bellow

She was what we used to call a suicide blonde - dyed by her own hand.

Saul Bellow

When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.

Sarah Jessica Parker

He's the funniest, smartest person I know. It doesn't mean he doesn't bug me and I'm sure I bug him sometimes.

Sandra Bullock

Everyone told me to pass on Speed because it was a 'bus movie.'

Roseanne Barr

I know how to do anything, I'm a mom.

Roseanne Barr

The day I worry about cleaning my house is the day Sears comes out with a riding vacuum cleaner.

Roseanne Barr

My hope is that gays will be running the world, because then there would be no war. Just a greater emphasis on military apparel.

Roseanne Barr

Experts say you should never hit your children in anger. When is a good time? When you're feeling festive?

A lot of people wonder how you can tell if you're really in love. Just ask yourself this question: 'Would I mind being financially destroyed by this person?'

Roger Ebert

Here's how much I know about hockey. Mike Royko and I were in a tiny bar one winter night, and the radio kept reporting goals by the Blackhawks. I mentioned how frequently the team was scoring. 'You're listening to the highlights,' Royko observed.

Rod Serling

It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.

Robert Quillen

As we grow older, our bodies get shorter and our anecdotes longer.