Tom Lehrer Quotes

Disclaimer: If anyone disagrees with anything I say, I am quite prepared to not only retract it, but also to deny under oath I ever said it.

Tom Lehrer

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• I am not saying we are categorizing Ellen White in the biblical context of a false prophet.

  

  Walter Martin
  • Biblical
  • Context
  • Prophet

• I'm not a fan of soccer, for sure not.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Soccer
  • Fan
  • Sure

• I just love a challenge, and always have, and will do anything to make it interesting. I'll try anything, really, as long as it's a challenge and you can have some fun doing it.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Long
  • Love
  • Fun

• Sitcoms are making a comeback, but you've got to have a little quirkiness in there now.

  

  Jackee Harry
  • You
  • Now
  • Comeback

• Do I think Vince McMahon was looking at my matches in Japan going, 'We need him?' No. He wasn't. He's too busy. There's no way. But somebody may have been looking and going, 'All right, I like this guy. Let's give him a shot.'

  

  A.J. Styles
  • May
  • Think
  • Guy

• Among the rednecks of America, which there are many more than people seem to realize, it was terribly damaging. I got blamed for O.J.'s acquittal.

  

  F. Lee Bailey
  • People
  • America
  • Realize

• We have now seen that there is no particle of evidence for the Egyptian origin of Tarot cards.

  

  A. E. Waite
  • Now
  • Evidence
  • Cards

• Right now, there is no way that the federal government can prevent someone who's on the terror watch list from buying a gun - none.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Government
  • Gun
  • Now

• Humankind is an insignificant part of existence.

  

  Nayef Al-Rodhan

• Although our 'gentle air' cannot improve the way hate and envy look, it does seem not to encourage firmness and decision. All is compromise; caution and refinement are everywhere. Everything has to 'make a good impression' - whether or not it is any good: the impression is the main thing.

  

  Arnold Schoenberg
  • Good
  • Hate
  • Decision

• In farm country, the plover has only two real enemies: the gully and the drainage ditch. Perhaps we shall one day find that these are our enemies, too.

  

  Aldo Leopold
  • Country
  • Real

• I think that if a writer doesn't use her voice, be it in her writing or online or in real life, then what is the point of having one?

  

  Jenny Han
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Real

• If I'm the president, I will call in all the different political opinions to come together and to make one front to the benefit of Mexico.

  

  Enrique Pena Nieto
  • Different
  • Together
  • Political

• I have never been a good dancer but am very passionate about it.

  

  Anita Hassanandani Reddy
  • Good

• False stories used to affect me initially. But now, I've come to understand that if false stories are created, they are also forgotten in the long run.

  

  Kriti Sanon
  • Long

• Most architects think in drawings, or did think in drawings; today, they think on the computer monitor. I always tried to think three dimensionally. The interior eye of the brain should be not flat but three dimensional so that everything is an object in space. We are not living in a two-dimensional world.

  

  Frei Otto
  • World
  • Today
  • Space

• The people of Chicago are a proud people - and for good reason.

  

  Jane Byrne
  • People
  • Good
  • Proud

• Humility is, of all graces, the chiefest when it does not know itself to be a grace at all.

  

  Bernard of Clairvaux
  • Grace
  • Humility

• I think that all things which evoke discipline: study, and our duties to men and to the commonwealth, war, and personal hardship, and even the need for subsistence, ought to be greeted by us with profound gratitude, for only through them can we attain to the least detachment; and only so can we know peace.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Men
  • War
  • Peace

• I love sci-fi, computer games. I love any escapes. Give me them all.

  

  Alexander Siddig

• My son Bill, who came to me in 1960-he was 14 then, quoted the old parable to me: "It is not by their words, but by their deeds that ye shall know them" -pointing out that if I was a true atheist, I would not permit the public schools of America to force him to read the Bible and say prayers against his will. He was right.

  

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair
  • America
  • True
  • Words

• If you have fathered a child, if you have given birth, if sex is a source of healthy pleasure, thank your pelvis and your reproductive organs for allowing you to feel the creative rhythms of life.

  

  Elizabeth Lesser
  • Sex
  • Child
  • Pleasure

• Disclaimer: If anyone disagrees with anything I say, I am quite prepared to not only retract it, but also to deny under oath I ever said it.

  

  Tom Lehrer
  • Profound
  • Insane
  • Humorous