Neil Simon Quotes

You're welcome to take a bath. You look like the second week of the garbage strike.

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• If I can save 25 billion dollars in terms of reduction of import, I will be adding one percent to the GDP. By conserving the oil energy by the people, the GDP will become 5.5 percent, and this will change the economy of the country.

  

  Veerappa Moily
  • People
  • Country
  • Energy

• I've always thought Shawn Michaels's story is fascinating.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Always
  • Thought
  • Story

• Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.

  

  Barry Goldwater
  • Time
  • Creative
  • Equality

• I wrote a techno song about the four things I love in Germany to make myself happy, which are my grandfather, my two poodle pets, bread, and a strange but delicious Turkish dish called Doener Kebab.

  

  Flula Borg
  • Love
  • Happy
  • Song

• Everybody is nicer to me when I'm in yellow.

  

  Cam
  • Me
  • Yellow
  • Nicer

• You know, I'm fairly intelligent, but I don't think my grades reflected that.

  

  Barry Sanders
  • Think
  • You
  • Know

• My dancing is Hawaiian-inspired but I also get a little fresh when it comes to my faster songs.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Inspired
  • Dancing
  • Little

• A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Country
  • Home
  • Man

• I don't think humor is forced upon my universe; it's a part of it.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Think
  • Universe
  • Humor

• I'm married to Kevin, a photographer whose career has put him on the campaign trail with presidential candidates and sent him on assignment to far-flung places for long periods of time. It was sometimes rough when our children were small, and I was beginning to write in earnest.

  

  Nancy Horan
  • Time
  • Long
  • Children

• To be silent is to be passive.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Silent
  • Passive

• One of the most difficult times in my life was when I escaped from Romania in November of 1989.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Life
  • My Life
  • November

• Human beings are religious animals.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Religious
  • Human
  • Animals

• And humility in politics means accepting that one party doesn't have all the answers; recognising that working in partnership is progress not treachery.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Party
  • Progress
  • Politics

• I've got an opinion on everything.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • Opinion
  • Everything
  • Got

• It's weird to me when an artist comes in, and the label says, 'We want him to sound like Chris Brown,' but he says he wants to sound like Sean Paul. There's a huge disconnect – it's like we're making a product.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Want
  • Artist
  • Weird

• I know the Hall of Fame is the more sought-after thing. But I'm getting a bigger charge out of my uniform number being put away. Everything I worked hard for and wished for came true.

  

  Hal Newhouser
  • True
  • Know
  • Uniform

• To wake up when the sun comes up and enjoy that and then, when the sun goes down, to have a nice property or house where I could watch it on my porch when I'm older. It would be peaceful.

  

  Zack Greinke
  • Up
  • House
  • Nice

• So in my junior year, I switched to the drama department.

  

  James Earl Jones
  • Drama

• My liege, and madam, to expostulate What majesty should be, what duty is, Why day is day, night night, and time is time, Were nothing but to waste night, day and time. Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Soul
  • Night
  • Duty

• Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.

  

  Frederic Bastiat
  • Great
  • Live

• If right now our emotional reaction to seeing a certain person or hearing certain news is to fly into a rage or to get despondent or something equally extreme, it's because we have been cultivating that particular habit for a very long time.

  

  Pema Chodron
  • Time
  • Long
  • Emotional

• You're welcome to take a bath. You look like the second week of the garbage strike.

  

  Neil Simon