Phyllis Diller Quotes

Burt Reynolds once asked me out. I was in his room.

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• While it may be true that the UAE has been an ally since the September 11, 2001, attacks, the American people know it has also harbored and aided some of the al Qaeda agents who were involved in that attack.

  

  Bart Gordon
  • People
  • May
  • American

• I love my sleep.

  

  Caprice Bourret
  • Love
  • Sleep
  • I Love

• But I'm more interested in why people are frightened by Jaws and why Jaws was such a hit than saying Spielberg's my main influence.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • People
  • Why
  • Influence

• If you're fortunate enough, you get to a position where you can be a little pickier about your roles.

  

  Rachel True
  • You
  • Enough
  • Where

• I'm sure that people who elected me, some of them thought I was gay, some of them thought I wasn't gay, and most of them didn't care.

  

  Ed Koch
  • People
  • Care
  • Thought

• Every city has a Donald Trump; ours is just the Trumpiest.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • City
  • Trump
  • Just

• The Tax Division is committed to prosecuting accountants who assist their clients in fraudulent tax schemes.

  

  Dana Boente
  • Tax
  • Clients
  • Accountants

• Very few males have the confidence to appear vulnerable.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Confidence
  • Very
  • Few

• I don't think music affects what words I choose to type in what order, within what punctuation, at this point, because I'm rereading and editing each sentence, at this point, in my published books, probably 100-150 times each, on average, and listening to probably 20-60 different songs in that time.

  

  Tao Lin
  • Time
  • Music
  • Different

• Differences among deaf people are okay, but we need to recognize those differences and work together.

  

  I. King Jordan
  • People
  • Work
  • Together

• I was in love with a beautiful blonde once. She drove me to drink. That's the one thing I'm indebted to her for.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Love
  • Beautiful
  • For Him

• It was as easy to be alone with six kin as it is to be alone by yourself, and maybe easier.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Alone

• Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare.Let all who prate of Beauty hold their peace,And lay them prone upon the earth and ceaseTo ponder on themselves, the while they stareAt nothing, intricately drawn nowhere.

  

  Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • Earth
  • Peace
  • Alone

• The enigma I will not explain – its 'dark saying' must be left unguessed, and I warn you that the apparent connection between the variations and the theme is often of the slightest texture.

  

  Edward Elgar
  • Dark
  • Connection

• Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

  

  Marie Curie
  • Life
  • Time
  • May

• To be an intellectual really means to speak a truth that allows suffering to speak.

  

  Cornel West
  • Truth
  • Suffering

• Whatever doubt might rise, he knew that he was right. But the rightness was an intellectual rightness and the doubt emotional.

  

  Clifford D. Simak
  • Doubt
  • Emotional

• I have always felt that humor was a wonderful vehicle to let us become connected with each other and ourselves… I try to portray the similarities and polarities in men and women, so that we can acknowledge and embrace our collective consciousness.

  

  Lily Tomlin
  • Men
  • Women

• I remember when I was prosecutor we had truancy and curfew issues and we made a refrigerator magnet, and that was hot with parents. They loved putting it up on the wall and saying, you know, if you don't follow these rules, you could get prosecuted.

  

  Amy Klobuchar
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Parents

• Salman bhai is amazing, and he is one of the greats of our cinema, and I don't think I should be compared to Salman Khan.

  

  Varun Dhawan
  • Amazing

• Increasingly in recent times we have come first to identify the remedy that is most agreeable, most convenient, most in accord with major pecuniary or political interest, the one that reflects our available faculty for action; then we move from the remedy so available or desired back to a cause to which that remedy is relevant.

  

  John Kenneth Galbraith
  • Political
  • Action

• We are all the children of God.

  

  Alice Bailey
  • Children
  • Go

• A lot of blues music seems like it's moving away from God, or the center, and Gospel music is moving towards it. It's embracing a higher reality. When you look a little closer, the way that I define it or explain it, is that the blues is the naked cry of the human heart, apart from God. People are searching for union with God. They're searching to be home. There's something in people that seeks this union with their creator. Why am I here? Where am I going? What's it all about? Who am I? All this kind of stuff.

  

  Dion
  • People
  • Music
  • Heart

• Burt Reynolds once asked me out. I was in his room.

  

  Phyllis Diller