Showing posts with label Oscar Levant. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Oscar Levant. Show all posts

Friday, August 07, 2009

Quotes

"In all recorded history there has not been
one economist who has had to worry about
where the next meal would come from."
- Peter Drucker

"I am no more humble than
my talents require."
- Oscar Levant

"There are more fools in the
world than there are people."
- Heinrich Heine

"The reason there is so little crime in
Germany is that it's against the law."
- Alex Levin

"'Who are you and how did you get in here?'
'I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.'"
- Leslie Nielsen


"Great artists suffer for the people."
- Marvin Gaye

Wednesday, May 06, 2009

Quotes

"Injustice anywhere is a threat
to justice everywhere."
- Martin Luther King Jr.

"You can't wait for inspiration. You
have to go after it with a club."
- Jack London


"I once said cynically of a politician, 'He'll
doublecross that bridge when he comes to it.'"
- Oscar Levant

"I hope that when I die, people say about me,
'Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.'"
- Jack Handey

"The only thing I like about
rich people is their money."
- Nancy Astor

"It's not true that I had nothing
on. I had the radio on."
- Marilyn Monroe

Friday, April 03, 2009

Quotes

"Be obscure clearly."
- E. B. White

"A celebrity is one who is known to many
persons he is glad he doesn't know."
- H. L. Mencken

"She runs the gamut of
emotions from A to B."
- Dorothy Parker

"The only difference between the Democrats
and the Republicans is that the Democrats
allow the poor to be corrupt, too."
- Oscar Levant

"Somebody has to do something, and it's just
incredibly pathetic that it has to be us."
- Jerry Garcia

"Save a little money each month and at
the end of the year you'll be surprised
at how little you have."
- Ernest Haskins

Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Quotes

Strange as it seems, no amount of learning
can cure stupidity, and higher education
positively fortifies it.
- Stephen Vizinczey

There's a fine line between genius and
insanity. I have erased this line.
- Oscar Levant


It is far better to be silent than merely
to increase the quantity of bad books.
- Voltaire

To believe is to know you believe, and to
know you believe is not to believe.
- Jean-Paul Sartre

Drop the question what tomorrow
may bring, and count as profit
every day that fate allows you.
- Horace


Just because you made a mistake
doesn't mean you are a mistake.
- Georgette Mosbacher