Rosemary Clooney Quotes

No matter how great a man is, the size of his funeral usually depends on the weather.

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• I love the folk-rock of the Seventies and the pop of the Eighties.

  

  Gabrielle Aplin
  • Rock
  • Pop
  • Seventies

• When we were on the road, I found out that my greatest hits album went Gold. They freaked out. Things really came to a head when we started arguing about a Van Halen greatest hits package.

  

  Sammy Hagar Van Halen
  • Road
  • Gold
  • Greatest

• Literature - Eastern and Western - abounds with stories, myths, legends about the search for youth, for eternal life.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Life
  • Literature
  • Search

• I had the training at drama school where I studied Shakespeare and Brecht and Chekov and all these period historical playwrights and I think that I responded to the material.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • School
  • Think
  • Training

• When I started selling air conditioners early on, customers were willing to pay an extra 200 yuan to buy from Suning. Why? Service was good.

  

  Zhang Jindong
  • Good
  • Why
  • Air

• So much of what I do has been based off of my heroes and guys I've watched come up.

  

  T. J. Perkins
  • Up
  • Been
  • Come

• I realised the bohemian life was not for me. I would look around at my friends, living like starving artists, and wonder, 'Where's the art?' They weren't doing anything. And there was so much interesting stuff to do, so much fun to be had... maybe I could even quit renting.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Life
  • Art
  • Friends

• From some dilatory reading in the early 1960s, I knew enough about viruses and their association with tumors in animals to understand that they might provide a relatively simple entry into a problem as complex as cancer.

  

  Harold E. Varmus
  • Reading
  • Simple
  • Problem

• Me and Jesus are cool. I'm cool with all the gods. Gods recognize gods.

  

  Conor McGregor
  • Cool
  • Jesus

• We always thought the living earth was a thing of beauty. It isn’t. Life has had to learn to defend itself against the planet’s random geological savagery.

  

  Arthur C. Clarke
  • Life
  • Earth
  • Random

• We, the Indians, as Guru of the Nations: yes, I believe in that. We can be-or once more become- the hope of mankind. But that requires efforts and courage to be ourselves culturally. Unfortunately, we live in an age of political dwarfs, political managers without vision or courage. But their time is running out.

  

  Atal Bihari Vajpayee
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Live

• I leaned right over to kiss your stoney book A little jealous of the ships with whom you flirt A billion lovers with their cameras Snap to look and in my fantasy I sail beneath your skirt

  

  Andy Partridge
  • Book
  • Kiss

• I was involved with the landmines before the Princess of Wales, and nobody gave a damn about people losing their limbs. It only became a success when she came along.

  

  Joanna Lumley
  • Success
  • Princess
  • Damn

• If we were starting from scratch, there's no question a simple retail consumption tax with protections for those with lower incomes would drive the economy the best and be the simplest to administer.

  

  Kevin Brady
  • Question
  • Simple

• I am a huge Michael Jackson fan.

  

  Lee Pace

• I value comedy. I value somebody who can be funny.

  

  James L. Brooks
  • Funny
  • Comedy
  • Value

• A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

  

  Bernard Meltzer
  • Good
  • True
  • Friend

• One in four corporations doesn't pay any taxes.

  

  Bernie Sanders

• The meaning of this is, that whomsoever we love, in him we find our own soul in the highest sense. The final truth of our existence lies in this. God, the Supreme Soul, is in me, as well as in my son, and my joy in my son is the realisation of this truth.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • God
  • Truth
  • Soul

• What chiefly diverts the men of democracies from lofty ambition is not the scantiness of their fortunes, but the vehemence of the exertions they daily make to improve them.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville
  • Men
  • Daily
  • Ambition

• Men seem unable to feel equal to women: they must be superior or they are inferior.

  

  Marilyn French
  • Men
  • Women

• As thy days, so shall thy strength be which, in modern language, may be translated as thy thoughts so shall thy life be.

  

  Emmet Fox
  • Life
  • May
  • Thoughts

• No matter how great a man is, the size of his funeral usually depends on the weather.

  

  Rosemary Clooney
  • Men
  • Matter
  • Funeral