Phyllis Diller Quotes

I asked the waiter, 'Is this milk fresh?' He said, 'Lady, three hours ago it was grass.'

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• I kinda wanted to play receiver more.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • Play
  • Wanted
  • More

• I certainly didn't reach out to my old assets and ask 'em how they're doing, although I would have liked to.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Doing
  • Old
  • Reach

• I'm in a constant state of gratitude.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Gratitude
  • State
  • Constant

• Racism is always there underneath, but usually it is exploited in these times of economic crisis, and it's hard to find out when one slides into another.

  

  Iris Chang
  • Always
  • Find
  • Racism

• Oh, it is quite possible that none of us in 'Downton' will ever again get the ratings this has had. But from a career point of view, it has opened so many doors.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Career
  • View
  • Doors

• You may be right that people say: 'You know what, we had Obama. He was inexperienced. The guy had great rhetoric, sounded good, looked good, but has turned out to be an utter disaster. I want someone where I have confidence and credibility that they're up to the job and that I can trust what they tell me.'

  

  Karl Rove
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• I've just had a wonderful time doing Chinese music, and it's been so rewarding for me. I feel like there's so much potential in mandarin music, and there's so much, you know, ground left to be broken.

  

  Wang Leehom
  • Time
  • Music
  • Broken

• I think I've always had to pick and choose whatever I want to work on. If I'm not happy with what I'm doing, it's probably not going to end up that interesting.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Up
  • Work
  • Happy

• Why do people sit up so late, or, more rarely, get up so early? Not because the day is not long enough, but because they have no time in the day to themselves.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I think women of our generation went through Cultural Revolution, went through hardship, coming from nowhere, and suddenly see China's amazing opportunity. So women just seized the opportunity.

  

  Zhang Xin
  • Women
  • Opportunity
  • Amazing

• Sometimes I can see the whole painting from the outset in my mind's eye. But more often than not, that idea doesn't last the duration of the painting. Sometimes it comes out easy, just as I had envisaged. But that is reasonably rare.

  

  Gary Hume
  • Mind
  • Eye
  • Painting

• I still find the best way to understand a hospitalized patient whose care I am taking over is not by staring at the computer screen but by going to see the patient; it's only at the bedside that I can figure out what is important.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Care
  • Patient
  • Screen

• The people know the salt of the sea and the strength of the winds lashing the corners of the earth. The people take the earth as a tomb of rest and a cradle of hope. Who else speaks for the Family of Man?

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • People
  • Family
  • Hope

• 'I cannot define failure because I don't believe in failure. There is no failure in my book. All I see is success, directed by the Spirit of God.'

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • God
  • Believe
  • Book

• Good wrong ideas are extremely scarce... and good wrong ideas that even remotely rival the majesty of string theory have never been seen.

  

  Edward Witten
  • Good

• The chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chess-board, express their beauty abstractly, like a poem.. .I have come to the personal conclusion that while all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists.

  

  Marcel Duchamp
  • Thoughts
  • Design
  • Chess

• Extreme programming is an emotional experience.

  

  Kent Beck
  • Experience
  • Emotional

• I'm just not going to settle for anything, you know?

  

  Future

• I'll always be a fat girl and I am happy with that.

  

  Dawn French
  • Happy
  • Girl

• Our democracy's history is littered with names we neither remember nor celebrate - people who stood in the way of progress while protecting the powerful. On Wednesday, a number of senators voted to join that list.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • People
  • Remember
  • History

• I think a bigger difference with social media is going to be things like the impact Instagram will have for historians. For the longest time, we had no images of the past. And then when we had the advent of the camera, we had a record of the things people chose to photograph, which, for a while, were portraits of your family, a new building we built, or a really big horse. Well now we have images of everything. That will be the biggest difference I think - that we will have a visual record of this reality in a way that will be completely covered.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • People
  • Time
  • Family

• I have a terrible tendency to lick my fingers when I cook. So much so that I got a telling off from my pastry teacher years ago, who said it would hinder my prospects.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Teacher
  • Years
  • Said

• I asked the waiter, 'Is this milk fresh?' He said, 'Lady, three hours ago it was grass.'

  

  Phyllis Diller