Quote (#552)

Practice random beauty and
senseless acts of love.
- Anonymous

"Setting a good example for children
takes all the fun out of middle age."
- William Feather

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

Short change your education now and you may
be short of change the rest of your life.
- Anonymous

"Love dies only when growth stops."
- Pearl S. Buck

"A good film is when the price of
the dinner, the theatre admission
and the babysitter were worth it."
- Alfred Hitchcock

Quote (#501)

"The best defense against the atom bomb
is not to be there when it goes off."
- Anonymous

"Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed."
- Francis Bacon

"Moral indignation is
jealousy with a halo."
- H. G. Wells

"Imitation is the sincerest form of television."
- Fred Allen (1894-1956)

"Happiness is good health and a bad memory."
- Ingrid Bergman (1917-1982)

Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
- Henrik Ibsen

Quote (#491)

If there is no wind, row.
- Latin Proverb

Friendship is born at that moment when
one person says to another: "What! You,
too? Thought I was the only one."
- C.S. Lewis

"Love has reasons which
reason cannot understand."
- Blaise Pascal

"The last time I saw him he
was walking down lover's
lane holding his own hand."
- Fred Allen

"I don't want life to imitate
art. I want life to be art."
- Ernst Fischer

"Every charitable act is a
stepping stone toward heaven."
- Henry Ward Beecher

Quotaria

The whole is more than
the sum of its parts.
- Aristotle

"Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred
Astaire did, but backwards and in high heels."
- Bob Thaves

"Nobody in the game of football should be called a
genius. A genius is somebody like Norman Einstein."
- Joe Theismann

"Don't you wish there was a knob on the TV
to turn up the intelligence? There's one
marked 'Brightness,' but it doesn't work."
- Gallagher

"I'm never going to be famous. My name will never be
writ large on the roster of Those Who Do Things. I
don't do any thing. Not one single thing. I used to
bite my nails, but I don't even do that any more."
- Dorothy Parker

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

Quotaria - Fred Allen

"An advertising agency is 85 percent
confusion and 15 percent commission."
- Fred Allen

"Committee--a group of men who individually
can do nothing but as a group decide that
nothing can be done."
- Fred Allen

A conference is a gathering of important
people who singly can do nothing, but
together can decide that nothing can be done.
- Fred Allen

California is a fine
place to live--if you
happen to be an orange.
- Fred Allen

"Television is a medium because
anything well done is rare."
- Fred Allen

"What's on your mind, if you
will allow the overstatement?"
- Fred Allen

Quotes

"Nobody outside of a baby carriage
or a judge's chamber believes in an
unprejudiced point of view."
- Lillian Hellman

"The stupid neither forgive nor forget;
the naive forgive and forget; the wise
forgive but do not forget."
- Thomas Szasz

"Americans detest all lies except lies
spoken in public or printed lies."
- Edgar Watson Howe

"You create your opportunities
by asking for them."
- Shakti Gawain

"In preparing for battle I have
always found that plans are useless,
but planning is indispensable."
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

Quotes

"It is by the goodness of God that in our country
we have those three unspeakably precious things:
freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the
prudence never to practice either of them."
- Mark Twain

"He played the king as if afraid
someone else would play the ace."
- John Mason Brown

I can't understand why a person will take
a year to write a novel when he can easily
buy one for a few dollars.
- Fred Allen

A nation is a society united by delusions about its
ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbors.
- William Ralph Inge

Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor;
but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable,
more people would be content to be ignorant than would
take even a little trouble to acquire it.
- Samuel Johnson

We've heard that a million monkeys
at a million keyboards could produce
the complete works of Shakespeare;
now, thanks to the Internet, we
know that is not true.
- Robert Wilensky

Quotes

"In films murders are always very clean.
I show how difficult it is and what a
messy thing it is to kill a man."
- Alfred Hitchcock

"Never tell anyone that you're writing a book, going
on a diet, exercising, taking a course, or quitting
smoking. They'll encourage you to death."
- Lynn Johnston

"Now is the time for all
good men to come to."
- Walt Kelly

"An associate producer is the
only guy in Hollywood who will
associate with a producer."
- Fred Allen

"I, Joan Crawford,
I believe in the dollar.
Everything I earn, I spend."
- Joan Crawford

And God said, 'Let there be light' and there was
light, but the Electricity Board said he would
have to wait until Thursday to be connected.
- Spike Milligan

Quotaria

"The first time I sang in the church choir;
two hundred people changed their religion."
- Fred Allen

"Good judgment comes from experience, and
often experience comes from bad judgment."
- Rita Mae Brown

"To have a great idea,
have a lot of them."
Thomas A. Edison

"When I think of all the wars that have been fought over possession of
the very cradle of the world's three major religions, I can't help but
wonder if maybe God is slowly turning agnostic. You have to just marvel
at the stun-gun absurdity of fighting to the death over what happens to
you... after you die."
- Dennis Miller

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of
little minds, adored by little statesmen
and philosophers and divines.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

You have to know how to accept
rejection and reject acceptance.
- Ray Bradbury