Phyllis Diller Quotes

You know you're old if your walker has an airbag.

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• I think when you're dealing with very tenuous scenes and difficult and heavy subject matter, it's important to be close intimately with your cast as friends, and be able to diffuse a lot of that tension and trust each other with the work.

  

  Jack Falahee
  • Work
  • Important
  • Friends

• I close my eyes when I sing so I can feel the song better.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • Song
  • Eyes
  • Better

• Washington is horribly broken. We are encountering a day of reckoning and this movement, this Tea Party movement, is a message to Washington that we're unhappy and that we want things done differently.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Done
  • Party
  • Day

• When I go to a country, I go to flea markets, antique stores. I am always looking for something.

  

  Ursula Andress
  • Country
  • Antique
  • Flea Markets

• When I'm recording my album, I want to be acting, or when I'm on set, I want to be making music. I guess we'll see how it turns out and which one overpowers the other... but I couldn't really see my life without them, both of them.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Life
  • Music
  • My Life

• But who cares? I can honestly look back and realize that everything happened for a reason. Everything that fell apart has fallen back into place beautifully and magically.

  

  Edie Brickell
  • Look
  • Place
  • Realize

• Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Great
  • Beginning
  • Heaven

• Marriage cannot be severed from its cultural, religious and natural roots without weakening the good influence of society.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • Good
  • Society
  • Marriage

• When the congregation becomes the norm by which sermons are measured, a minister has put a mortgage on his soul.

  

  Ralph W. Sockman
  • Soul
  • Mortgage
  • Norm

• Since I was in my early twenties, at ABC, I was always only interested in things that were not already being done.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Done
  • Being
  • Early

• I go to New York to see live shows, not movies.

  

  Gad Elmaleh
  • Live
  • Movies
  • New York

• I have one of the worst voices in the history of recorded time.

  

  Zach Anner
  • Time
  • History
  • Worst

• He's a threat to win until his brain turns to tapioca.

  

  Gary McCord
  • Brain
  • Win
  • Threat

• A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Time
  • Man
  • Big

• I love mystery novels... I love seeing the dramas played out in academic departments, particularly English departments. I started reading these when I was going up for tenure.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Mystery
  • Novels
  • Dramas

• I like being part of a big company's executive team. It's fun to stretch other parts of my brain, considering questions like, 'How should we think of acquisitions?' I get to be privy to things that would never come up at a small company.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • Up
  • Fun
  • Small

• Every actor's deepest desire is to reach a huge audience. So, I don't look down upon commercial cinema... there's a beauty in it that you understand sooner or later.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Desire
  • Beauty
  • Down

• I don't think it's going to be possible for the next generation of writers to tell stories without telling stories about telling stories.

  

  Dan Harmon
  • Think
  • Generation
  • Possible

• They came to her, naturally, since she was a woman, all day long with this and that; one wanting this, another that; the children were growing up; she often felt she was nothing but a sponge sopped full of human emotions.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Long
  • Children
  • Growing

• I think it's so fun when I get to work with women writers in particular because we really understand the core story or foundation as women. That's so important to me that the authenticity is there, you know, from the place that I speak from for my women. Having other females with me helps me dig deeper.

  

  Ciara
  • Work
  • Important
  • Women

• Time is no longer endless or the horizon destitute of hope.

  

  Charles Lindbergh
  • Time
  • Hope

• I'm an extremist. I don't do things in halves. I don't moderate anything. That can be with work or with good things as well. But often, I take it a bit too far.

  

  Eliot Sumner
  • Good
  • Work

• Switching to 'Renewables' generates jobs, skills, purpose, power, wealth, future, resilience, autonomy, freedom, unity: Sustainable Society

  

  Dave Hampton
  • Purpose
  • Resilience
  • Autonomy

• You know you're old if your walker has an airbag.

  

  Phyllis Diller