Harvey Korman Quotes

I wish there was something that - I get all those wonderful letters and wonderful acknowledgments, and I wish I could be more appreciative of what I do. But it's hard for me.

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• The "pursuit of happiness" is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • World
  • Good
  • Responsible

• I don't sign contracts for my books.

  

  Andrew Vachss
  • Book
  • Contracts

• Censorship may be useful for the preservation of morality, but can never be so for its restoration.

  

  G. D. H. Cole
  • May

• You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then - to learn.

  

  T. H. White
  • World
  • May
  • Night

• My mother, she smiles when I come around now. My daughter's eatin' decent meals and she's in private school. She's 4 years old. She started school. It's a beautiful thing.

  

  Obie Trice
  • School
  • She
  • Mother

• The speaker does not feel the grammatical rules he is said to apply in composing sentences, and men spoke grammatically for thousands of years before anyone knew there were rules.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Men

• If at this moment you simply made up your minds that you were handsome, beautiful, strong, dangerous, powerful, that you knew everything there was to know, you were totally capable in any job that you undertook or any sport you undertook-if you really believed that, and you can believe it, some of your faces would change physically before my eyes.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Job

• God has infinite attention, infinite leisure to spare for each one of us. He doesn't have to take us in the line. You're as much alone with Him as if you were the only thing He'd ever created.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Attention
  • Alone

• Ascensions into heaven are like falling leaves sad and happy all at the same time Going away isn't really sad especially when your going enables a new kind of presence to be born.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Kind
  • Fall
  • Heaven

• This is reality, whether you like it or not--all those frivolities of summer, the light and shadow, the living mask of green that trembled over everything, they were lies, and this is what was underneath. This is the truth.

  

  Willa Cather
  • Reality
  • Summer
  • Lying

• You have to be a prince to understand the people, and you have to belong to the people to understand the princes.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • People
  • Understand
  • Prince

• In war, discipline can do more than fury.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • War
  • Discipline
  • Fury

• You know these love letters mix with whisky, just don't light a match when you kiss me.

  

  Jon Bon Jovi
  • Light
  • Knows
  • Kiss

• Mysterious in the light of day, nature retains her veil, despite our clamours: That which she does not willingly display cannot be wrenched from her with levers, screws and hammers.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Light
  • Display
  • Hammers

• When the healthy nature of man acts as a whole, when he feels himself to be in the world as in a great, beautiful, noble, and valued whole, when harmonious ease affords him a pure and free delight, then the universe, if it could experience itself, would exult, as having attained its goal, and admire the climax of its own becoming and essence.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Experience
  • Nature
  • Universe

• I wish there was something that - I get all those wonderful letters and wonderful acknowledgments, and I wish I could be more appreciative of what I do. But it's hard for me.

  

  Harvey Korman
  • Letters
  • Acknowledgments