Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Salley

I explain to athletes, you're supposed to be a well-oiled machine. You're supposed to be in better shape than the people watching you. You're supposed to be an unbelievable specimen of a human being. You have to treat your body different while you're performing.

I don't think so. Human nature is pretty nasty.

Hamid Karzai

I don't think Osama is a Muslim. I don't think Osama is a human being.

Bill Watterson

Who was the guy who first looked at a cow and said 'I think I’ll drink whatever comes out of these when I squeeze ’em?

Bob Hope

We had a very successful trip to Russia. We made it back.

Bob Hope

The only thing chicken about Israel is their soup.

Bob Hope

The big difference in those days was that in England the Government subsidized TV, in America we work on TV so we can subsidize the Government.

Bob Hope

As the colonel and I sat swapping stories in the plane, a jet aircraft buzzed past our window. I asked the colonel what type of aircraft it was, and he said, "Don't worry about it, Bob. . . if you can see it, it's obsolete."

Bob Hope

She spoke perfect English, which led to considerable trouble. She couldn't understand us at all.

Bob Hope

Some people put us down. But I still haven't heard of any Americans trying to swim across the border into Mexico!

Bob Hope

Sure, we did need the oil in America. How else could Dolly Parton get into some of her dresses?

Bob Hope

My folks were English . . . we were too poor to be British.

Bob Hope

The place was so British, I wouldn't have been surprised if the mice wore monocles.

Bob Hope

The help (in Japan) is very polite. They bow so much, you don't know which end to talk to.

Bob Hope

Tokyo cab drivers are all ex-kamikaze pilots.

Bob Hope

Our first stop was red square, the heart of Moscow - if Moscow has one.

Bob Hope

The service at the Imperial (Tokyo) is the finest I've encountered anywhere. There was a button next to my bed marked ROOM SERVICE - and a maid to press it for me.

Bob Hope

There are many talented English personalities, but unfortunately they were all in Hollywood.

Bob Hope

English clubs are very exclusive. I played Royal Foxshire and they made me wear a suit and tie. . . in the shower.

Bob Hope

There's a very apt saying in show business: "If you don't go over budget in Paris, you're either very rich or very sick. "

Bob Hope

I only speak a little pigeon French. Just enough to get by with the little French pigeons.

Bob Hope

Rock and roll is catching on all over . . . France . . . England . . . They even have it in Japan, only over there they call it judo.

Bob Hope

It's a wonderful way to live, and not a bad way to go, either. The average Frenchman is still smiling three months after he's dead.

Bob Hope

We flew over to England by the same route Churchill took. It was easy. All we had to do was follow the cigar ashes.

Bob Hope

England occupies a warm spot in my affections. It was the scene of my greatest performance. I was born there.

Bob Hope

Free speech isn't dead in Germany and Italy, merely the speakers...

Benjamin Whichcote

Modesty and humility are the sobriety of the mind, as temperance and chastity are of the body.

I think issues of human rights have to be taken seriously and I think they will be addressed seriously in the discussions we will be having, not in a token way,

Susanne Bier

I think it's extremely difficult consistently being a decent human being.

Billy Graham

The greatest need in the world at this moment is the transformation of human nature.

Billy Graham

God measures people by the small dimensions of humility and not by the bigness of their achievements or the size of their capabilities.

Billy Graham

A keen sense of humor helps us to overlook the unbecoming, understand the unconventional, tolerated the unpleasant, overcome the unexpected, and outlast the unbearable.

Sathya Baba

To recover human values, man has to take the spiritual path.