Harvey Korman Quotes

Although in Abbott and Costello, and straight man was first. That's a very interesting concept.

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• The main threat to the future of Europe is not those who want to come here to live but our own political, economic, and intellectual elites bent on transforming Europe against the clear will of the European people.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • People
  • Live
  • Future

• I'd sing all day, every day, all the time if I thought it didn't sound like dying cats.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Time
  • Day
  • Dying

• I can do everything with ease on the stage, whereas in real life I feel too big and clumsy. So I didn't choose acting. It chose me.

  

  Ingrid Bergman
  • Life
  • Real
  • Me

• I often have the impression that the book I've just finished isn't satisfied: that it rejects me because I haven't successfully completed it. Because there is no going back, I'm forced to begin a new book so I can finally complete the previous one.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Book
  • Me
  • New

• There is a quite a lot of effort involved but I find action sequences some of the quickest to write and the most fun.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Fun
  • Action
  • Effort

• Chile's mines are very dangerous; the country has a lot of earthquakes.

  

  Patricia Riggen
  • Country
  • Dangerous
  • Very

• Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Thinking
  • Science
  • Knowledge

• Roosevelt was determined to stop Stalin from taking over Eastern Europe. He thought they finally had an agreement on Poland. Before Roosevelt died, he realized that Stalin had broken his agreement.

  

  W. Averell Harriman
  • Stop
  • Thought
  • Broken

• Repeal the Missouri Compromise - repeal all compromises - repeal the Declaration of Independence - repeal all past history, you still cannot repeal human nature. It will be the abundance of man's heart that slavery extension is wrong; and out of the abundance of his heart, his mouth will continue to speak.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Heart
  • History
  • Nature

• I'm a big fan of, like, wearing old, vintage slips and stuff as outdoor wear. I got, like, a pair of these little silk bloomers. I think they were even, like, considered underwear in the '40s. I wore them as shorts the other day.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Think
  • Day
  • Outdoor

• Contrary to popular wisdom, the mark of a great meeting is not how short it is or whether it ends on time. The key is whether it ends with clarity and commitment from participants.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Time
  • Great
  • Wisdom

• I'll get cast occasionally as sort of the jerk version of myself, and I have fun doing that. But it's really better for everyone if I stay behind the camera.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Fun
  • Myself
  • Have Fun

• February days are a marketing gimmick; love happens every day.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Day
  • February
  • Are

• The chief requirement of the good life... is to live without any image of oneself.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Life
  • Good
  • Live

• It is also a good rule not to put overmuch confidence in the observational results that are put forward until they are confirmed by theory.

  

  Arthur Eddington
  • Good
  • Confidence

• Our aim is not just to remove our uniquely incompetent Government from office-it is to destroy the socialist fallacies-indeed the whole fallacy of socialism-that the Labour Party exists to spread.

  

  Margaret Thatcher
  • Party

• I sound like an old bullfrog when I sing.

  

  Gary Rossington Lynyrd Skynyrd

• The history of art is not just the history of artists; it is also the history of the people who viewed art. And that wider perspective can help us see some of the reasons why the art of the ancient world should still matter to us.

  

  Mary Beard
  • People
  • World
  • Why

• You know when you hear a lyric and you can tell that the person means it? That is really hard; that is so much harder than it seems: to find the topics that you're passionate about and have it come across as like, 'Yeah, that guy needed to sing that song.'

  

  Andy Grammer
  • Guy
  • Song
  • Lyric

• Shed, as you do your garments, your daily sins, whether of omission or commission, and you will wake a free man, with a new life.

  

  William Osler
  • Life
  • Men
  • Sin

• When you're winning, you're a hero. When you're losing, you're a bum... I'm as bad as the fans, believe me. If they only knew how I hate losing and what we go through to try to win.

  

  Alex Spanos
  • Win
  • Try
  • Losing

• Failure isn't an option. I've erased the word fear from my vocabulary and I think when you erase fear you can't fail.

  

  Alicia Keys
  • Fear
  • Failure
  • Option

• I truly believe greatness is in all of us. Don’t let anyone talk us out of our truth.

  

  Yanni
  • Believe
  • Greatness

• Although in Abbott and Costello, and straight man was first. That's a very interesting concept.

  

  Harvey Korman
  • Abbott
  • Costello
  • Straight man