Bob Hope Quotes

I like to play in the low 70's. If it gets any hotter than that I'll stay in the bar!

Bob Hope

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• But I did an awful lot of work in Hollywood, and in New York for that matter.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • Work
  • New
  • New York

• I know I should be Wonder Woman. They need an international actress - a fresh face. They need a woman who's tall, athletic and dark-haired - and an actress who can play the part. That's me. So, I'm coming to L.A. to work hard and meet the industry. And if 'Wonder Woman' comes together, I want it.

  

  Tanit Phoenix
  • Work
  • Together
  • Dark

• In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Art
  • Man
  • Himself

• I was always telling my family I wanted to become an actress, and I did.

  

  Jackee Harry
  • Family
  • Always
  • Become

• I commanded an Army unit, and I placed the highest priority on a commander's authority to lead, manage, and discipline the men and women under his or her command within the Uniform Code of Military Justice.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Men
  • Women
  • Justice

• Granted, I've changed internally as I've gotten older - I take it easy, I know when to stop and take care of myself, I laugh much more and with my belly and soul - but this comes from the confidence and acceptance that comes with maturity.

  

  Iman
  • Soul
  • Stop
  • Myself

• I have made it a rule of my life to trust a man long after other people gave him up, but I don't see how I can ever trust any human being again.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• I wondered had I really oversold the Hubble. I have to admit that, since, I have been convinced that I didn't.

  

  Nancy Roman
  • Really
  • Admit
  • Hubble

• A good example of how it must have been is today's world of conducting, which is still utterly dominated by men, and the prejudice the few female conductors have to battle even today is astounding.

  

  Lara St. John
  • World
  • Good
  • Men

• I like game shows.

  

  Oscar Nunez
  • Game
  • Like
  • Shows

• I think that's what really a substantial work is, it's forever. It's the truth now and it was the truth then, and it will be the truth tomorrow.

  

  Abbey Lincoln
  • Work
  • Truth
  • Forever

• If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Sometimes
  • Blind
  • Deaf

• When they put me on ESPN and they talk about negative things, or when they put me on TMZ and they talk about negative things, I'm just glad that I'm relevant; to have lasted this long being relevant.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Me
  • Things
  • Negative

• Ever since I began writing my Junie B. Jones series, people have been assuming that the character is based on me when I was a little girl. The fact is, though, that Junie B. and I have very little in common.

  

  Barbara Park
  • People
  • Writing
  • Character

• I think some of my best theatre training has been in the Marine Corps. Not only meeting a bunch of characters, but growing up. You're in really adult situations at a young age, as far as being in charge of people.

  

  Adam Driver
  • People
  • Up
  • Age

• The one big, humongous, immense thing that we didn't change, that we didn't figure out how to deal with is, if men and women are both going to work throughout their lives, who's going to take care of the kids?

  

  Gail Collins
  • Work
  • Men
  • Women

• When I came back to Washington to be The Times' chief congressional correspondent in 1991, I was looking for a book subject, and Ted Kennedy stood out for two reasons.

  

  Adam Clymer
  • Book
  • Looking
  • Back

• There are apparently three factors that lead to longevity: heredity, habits, and what your wife will let you get away with.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Wife
  • Lead
  • Habits

• I'm always looking for great songs, and not being much of a songwriter, I depend on great songwriters to send them to me. I go through tons of stuff, and sometimes you just find material that kind of fits and becomes something special.

  

  George Strait
  • Great

• See, regardless of what anybody believes who hates me; you ain't gonna make or break me.

  

  Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
  • Believe
  • Hate

• The wise will determine from the gravity of the case; the irritable from sensibility to oppression; the high-minded from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Power
  • High
  • Wise

• A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push it.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Long
  • Door

• I like to play in the low 70's. If it gets any hotter than that I'll stay in the bar!

  

  Bob Hope