S. J. Perelman Quotes

You'll have to leave my meals on a tray outside the door because I'll be working pretty late on the secret of making myself invisible, which may take me almost until eleven o'clock.

S. J. Perelman

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• I got lucky. I won the San Francisco Stand-Up Comedy Competition in 1977 while I was still at San Francisco State.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Up
  • Comedy
  • Competition

• I do love being on television and in peoples' homes. I'm not an actor, so there is a connection that's real.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Real
  • Love
  • Connection

• My favorite writers are all Jews - David, Solomon, Matthew, Mark - well, you get the picture.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • You
  • Picture
  • Favorite

• Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • People
  • Internet
  • Television

• My goal is to improve my game, stay healthy and be competitive. If I have that, I know I can be able to win tournaments, which in the end is what it counts.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Game
  • Goal
  • End

• I trust no one - that microphone, that book.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Book
  • Trust
  • Microphone

• I always believed in my ability, but I think in any sport you need that little bit of luck.

  

  Gareth Bale
  • Think
  • Always
  • Luck

• The utilization of flat roofs as 'grounds' offers us a means of re-acclimatizing nature amidst the stony deserts of our great towns; for the plots from which she has been evicted to make room for buildings can be given back to her up aloft.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Up
  • Great
  • She

• It gives me immense pleasure to be trustworthy, faithful, and true – to have the kind of romantic bond that inspires this.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • True
  • Romantic
  • Pleasure

• If you're throwing someone off a roof, you're throwing them off the roof. It's there. You don't have to do anything extra with that. The audience is obviously going to react to that because it's such a heightened thing to do. But in the other moments, you really look for ways to craft those, because they're more important, honestly.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Important
  • Moments
  • Look

• Most of the largest software companies in the world today are based on Oracle, and they were once startups.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • World
  • Today
  • Software

• I want to play for my country, play for everybody, and I want to be there. I just feel like I have so many feelings and I want to play in the Olympics and feel how special if I can win that tournament.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Country
  • Play
  • Feelings

• At the end of the day, the position is just a position, a title is just a title, and those things come and go. It's really your essence and your values that are important.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Important
  • Day
  • End

• Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire.

  

  Edna O'Brien
  • Emotional
  • Mother`s
  • Reserved

• Ford made some of the most progressive pictures.

  

  Karen Morley
  • Pictures
  • Most
  • Progressive

• When poverty shows itself, even mischievous boys understand what it means.

  

  Carlo Collodi
  • Poverty
  • Understand
  • Shows

• I'm a voice for children's books and children's reading.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Children
  • Reading
  • Voice

• I just hate one-dimensional portrayals of religion; it's too cheap and easy to do, and ignores the nuances that go into having a belief system.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Hate
  • Religion
  • Easy

• No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in society.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • May
  • She
  • Society

• Sweet music, and your secret heart. Both have the healing grace.

  

  John Roy Anderson Yes
  • Music
  • Heart
  • Sweet

• The 1st secret to success is to simply master your ability to get started, to take the first step. If you want to get physically fit, simply pack a gym bag everyday and get in the car. Once you do, where else are you going to go?

  

  Hal Elrod
  • Success
  • Car
  • Everyday

• When I go down into the ground at last, as God is my judge, I pray my best-beloved may have better to say of me than, "He didn't hit me."

  

  Lois McMaster
  • May
  • Judging
  • Lasts

• Because of the nature of my brand, it's so important our readers know it really is me behind my keyboard.

  

  Brit Morin
  • Important
  • Nature

• You'll have to leave my meals on a tray outside the door because I'll be working pretty late on the secret of making myself invisible, which may take me almost until eleven o'clock.

  

  S. J. Perelman
  • May
  • Pretty
  • Door