Phyllis Diller Quotes

My cooking is so bad my kids thought Thanksgiving was to commemorate Pearl Harbor.

Phyllis Diller

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• I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Army
  • Year
  • Soldier

• Right now, I'm not really thinking about marriage.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Thinking
  • Marriage
  • Now

• I like Baudelaire's sentences quite a lot. I read and re-read him very often.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Like
  • Him
  • Often

• I can't take the theater side out of myself.

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
  • Myself
  • Theater
  • Take

• The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Life
  • Live
  • Soul

• But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • Up
  • Love
  • Child

• I've never had a job. I've never needed to.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Job
  • Never
  • Needed

• I'm very involved in the writing on every level.

  

  Fran Drescher
  • Writing
  • Very
  • Involved

• I like to play a strong woman, but a strong woman can also be very fragile and vulnerable at the same time.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Time
  • Strong
  • Strong Woman

• I just became a vegetable for three months. I couldn't talk to people. I was very ill and that was part of the reason I left college.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • People
  • College
  • Three

• 'Power' is really such a good show that I forget I'm in it sometimes.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Good
  • Power
  • Sometimes

• People get in fights because they don't communicate, because you don't want to hurt the other person.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • People
  • Want
  • Hurt

• I love the word 'dearth,' by the way. It's one of my favorite words.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Words
  • Way
  • Favorite

• Oh God, I don't know if I ever really felt beautiful. I don't, really.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • God
  • Beautiful
  • Know

• I like to work and it kind of keeps me in line, which is very good because I need that structure.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Good
  • Work
  • Me

• If you give me any problem in America I can trace it down to domestic violence. It is the cradle of most of the problems, economic, psychological, educational.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • America
  • Violence
  • Problems

• Evil is an attack against human spiritual development and enlightenment. All evil, badness, neurosis - it has one motive and one motive only, which is to destroy - to destroy your chance of arising above yourself.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Evil
  • Spiritual
  • Chance

• Grace can and does have a history.

  

  Karl Rahner
  • History
  • Grace
  • Does

• In 'Mother's Day,' which is directed by legendary director Garry Marshall, I play a mother figure to the character played by Jason Sudeikis from 'Saturday Night Live.' He's a widower, and I'm a mother who's helping him to get over the loss of his wife.

  

  Loni Love
  • Live
  • Character
  • Mother

• Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact. To the extent that the proclamation of emancipation is not fulfilled in fact, to that extent we shall have fallen short of assuring freedom to the free.

  

  Lyndon B. Johnson
  • Men
  • Free
  • Freedom

• My biggest fear was public speaking, and then having everyone know who I was, it was definitely weird at first. When I first won, it was definitely a culture shock, it was something I wasn't quite ready for.

  

  Chris Moneymaker
  • Culture
  • Fear
  • Weird

• When I was a teacher, I'd walk into the classroom. I stood at the board. I was the man. I directed operations. I was an intellectual and artistic and moral traffic cop, and I - and I would direct the class, most of the time.

  

  Frank McCourt
  • Time
  • Moral
  • Teacher

• I have stage fright every single concert I've ever done. I have at least four or five minutes of it. It's absolute living hell.

  

  Brian Wilson
  • Done
  • Single
  • Hell

• My cooking is so bad my kids thought Thanksgiving was to commemorate Pearl Harbor.

  

  Phyllis Diller
  • Kids
  • Bad
  • Cooking