George Gobel Quotes

Did you ever get the feeling that the world was a tuxedo and you were a pair of brown shoes?

George Gobel

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• Shoes
• Tuxedo

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• I've also learned to no longer feel guilty if I'm invited out and don't want to go. If I start to say to myself, 'What's wrong with you that you're staying in five nights in a row to watch 'Forensic Files' instead of going out with your friends' I remind myself that it's what I need to do for myself at that point.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Friends
  • Myself
  • Start

• I have no sense of direction at all. Thank the Lord for my TomTom, otherwise I'd spend my whole life lost.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Life
  • Lost
  • Direction

• We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Enemy
  • Need
  • Ask

• I get homesick.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Get
  • Homesick

• There's this perception sometimes around here that I'm this Hollywood guy.

  

  Harry Anderson
  • Guy
  • Perception
  • Hollywood

• Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Men
  • Government
  • Turn

• There were so many pretty girls coming into the salon as clients, and others working in the salon. And I thought, 'Hmm. This is rather nice.'

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Pretty
  • Nice
  • Thought

• If you look at any normal organization, the CEO is the person with the highest E.Q. The person with the highest IQ is often in the back room running the financials or the operations. That's topsy turvy.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • You
  • Running
  • Look

• I had formed a black movement, so I would speak for the Trotskyist movement and then walk about a hundred yards to where the black movement was speaking.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • Black
  • Speak
  • Walk

• I wear a lot of wigs as Jacques Mesrine. He'd wear multiple wigs and take them off one at a time to rob three banks in one hour.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Time
  • Three
  • Take

• Anyway I will go same road because I, I was born in gymnastics. This is my, how to say, my life and my duty.

  

  Olga Korbut
  • Life
  • Road
  • Same

• Like all of Latin America, Mexico after independence in 1821 turned its back on a triple heritage: on the Spanish heritage, because we were newly liberated colonies, and on our Indian and black heritages, because we considered them backward and barbaric. We looked towards France, England and the U.S., to become progressive democratic republics.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • America
  • Black
  • Spanish

• I will always be open to receive my friends. I will not force myself on them.

  

  Ralph Abernathy
  • Friends
  • Myself
  • Open

• Maternity leave and parental leave is absolutely vital for strengthening families. It's an issue for men and women.

  

  Quentin Bryce
  • Men
  • Women
  • Men And Women

• Twitter is the marriage of full-tilt narcissism and full-tilt voyeurism that has finally collided in 140 words.

  

  Adam Goldberg
  • Words
  • Marriage
  • Twitter

• A woman is like a teabag. You can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • She
  • Strong
  • Water

• The key to understanding Crowley is the same as the key to understanding the Marquis de Sade. Both wasted an immense amount of energy screaming defiance at the authority they resented so much, and lacked the insight to see that they were shaking their fists as at abstraction.

  

  Colin Wilson
  • Energy
  • Understanding

• I do not feel any artist can produce great art without putting great personality into it. It is always a piece of you that goes on the screen or the canvass.

  

  Joe Murray
  • Great
  • Art
  • Personality

• For me, shoe-wise, platforms give me the same height that I need, but they're not as taxing on my feet.

  

  Debby Ryan
  • Wise

• The whole purpose of life is to make yourself happy.

  

  Ed Victor
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Purpose

• In this world of Maya, which is averse to the Lord, full of trials and tribulations, only patience, humility and respect for others are our friends for Hari bhajana.

  

  Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati
  • Patience
  • Humility
  • Lord

• If Turkey wants to join Europe, it will have to become a European country, and that might take a long time.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Time
  • Long
  • Country

• I think we have the worst name in rock, I really do. It's the worst name in the world.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • World
  • Rock
  • Worst

• Did you ever get the feeling that the world was a tuxedo and you were a pair of brown shoes?

  

  George Gobel
  • World
  • Feeling
  • Shoes