Jerry Lewis Quotes

When I'm working, I stay in ICU in any hospital that will get me a bed.

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• It is the duty of our men to enroll themselves in the national services. We need all our manpower for defence. For the military and... we need a quarter of a million men.

  

  Eamon de Valera
  • Men
  • Military
  • Duty

• You know when you see those guys and their sideburns are just a little too high? You don't need to have sideburns, but don't have to have them right above the ear. I knew a guy that did that in high school and I was like, 'What are you doing? Just let them down a little.'

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • School
  • High
  • Guy

• Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Mind
  • Truth
  • Choice

• You meet people in Hollywood that are famous, and you're not sure what they got famous for.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • People
  • You
  • Famous

• I will form good habits and become their slave. And how will I accomplish this difficult feat? Through these scrolls it will be done, for each scroll contains a principle which will drive a bad habit from my life and replace it with one which will bring me closer to success.

  

  Og Mandino
  • Life
  • Good
  • Done

• When America is chasing you, the whole world is chasing you.

  

  Abu Abbas
  • World
  • America
  • You

• There's no substitute to actually being in the room and having people in the room feel the force of your audition. It's very hard to beat that.

  

  Zach Galligan
  • People
  • Force
  • Beat

• I sleep and I unsleep. On the other side of me, beyond where I lie down, the silence of the house touches infinity. I hear time falling, drop by drop, and no falling drop is heard falling.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Time
  • House
  • Sleep

• Scientific and technological 'solutions' which poison the environment or degrade the social structure and man himself are of no benefit, no matter how brilliantly conceived or how great their superficial attraction.

  

  E. F. Schumacher
  • Great
  • Environment

• I just want to go back to rockin', but I'm uncertain as to what to actually do … The truth is, I never stopped thinking about rock 'n' roll for a second that I'm on holiday.

  

  Joe Strummer The Clash
  • Thinking
  • Truth
  • Rock

• In response to nearly a thousand queries, the Scientology delegation handed over forty-eight binders of supporting material, stretching nearly seven linear feet.

  

  Lawrence Wright

• Dat poenas laudata fides, cum sustinet inquitquos fortuna premit.

  

  Lucan

• We hold each other’s lives in our open hands, not in clenched fists.

  

  Lloyd Alexander

• Becoming an entrepreneur was the furthest thing from my mind. I actually had an identity crisis when I realized I had become one.

  

  Anne Taintor
  • Mind
  • Identity
  • Entrepreneur

• Right up until the late 18th century, when the first weighted lines were used to probe the ocean depths, many people believed the seas were bottomless - the watery equivalent of infinite outer space.

  

  Alan Huffman
  • People
  • Up
  • Space

• You've never heard of an English lover. Only an English patient.

  

  James D. Watson
  • English

• It's self-soothing for me to draw. So if I'm upset, drawing makes me less upset.

  

  Bruce Eric Kaplan
  • Drawing

• I like the accidental nature of being in the real world.

  

  Beeban Kidron
  • World
  • Real
  • Nature

• Technology is, in the broadest sense, mind or intelligence or purpose blending with nature.

  

  Paul Davies
  • Mind
  • Technology
  • Purpose

• I try to live every day and realize that there are so many folks working hard to try to get to where I am and how fortunate that I am.

  

  Cole Swindell
  • Live

• The most venerable, clearly understood, enlightened, and reliable constant in the world is not only that we want to be happy, but that we want only to be so. Our very nature requires it of us.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • World
  • Happy
  • Nature

• Of course I love being in love - but it is marriage that really fulfills me. But not in every case.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Marriage
  • Being
  • Course

• There better not be a black person in here that says they don't know nobody in jail... 'cause that's bullshit. Ray-Ray, Earl, Craig, Shorty Tim, Lil' Reg, all them motherfuckers in jail... Shonda's little brother... all of 'em, in jail... chillin'.

  

  Martin Lawrence
  • Black
  • Brother

• When I'm working, I stay in ICU in any hospital that will get me a bed.

  

  Jerry Lewis