Jack Benny Quotes

Bob Crosby: That's like keeping the smog and throwing away Los Angeles.

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• Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Wisdom
  • Speak
  • Tongue

• I was in a military family, so by the time I was 13 I'd lived in six different places.

  

  Olivia Munn
  • Time
  • Different
  • Family

• I don't know why my shoes are so popular - I am always surprised and mystified by it.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Popular
  • Shoes
  • Surprised

• I love sparkly eyes for the holidays, especially New Year's Eve.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Eyes
  • I Love
  • Holidays

• I come from Nigeria, and we live by the idea that it takes a village. So my entire team. I live by my team: my friends, my neighbors, my teachers - they're the people who taught me how to be a free actor.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • People
  • Live
  • Friends

• I am trying to do comedy on every single medium. I consider myself a public servant.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Comedy
  • Public
  • Servant

• It is not right to associate the fight against international terrorist networks with an imaginary crusade against Islam.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • Fight
  • Islam
  • Crusade

• One of the pleasantest things about book writing is that sometimes it brings one in touch with old friends.

  

  Rachel Field
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Friends

• I'm a writer who simply can't know what I'm writing about until the writing lets me discover it. In a sense, my writing process embraces the gapped nature of my memory process, leaping across spaces that represent all I've lost and establishing fresh patterns within all that remains.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Writing
  • Nature
  • Lost

• What you do on tour is you build this 'You and me against the world' thing.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • World
  • Against
  • Tour

• I had two different degrees: One in International Relations/Political Science and another degree in Radio and Television Production.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Different
  • Political
  • Science

• It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.

  

  Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • Life
  • True
  • Damn

• I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • Up
  • Reading
  • Mark

• I'm a professor. I know that people in research labs can do miraculous things if they're given the resources.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • People
  • Know
  • Research

• I was always a fan of the old-style comics. I loved vaudeville. I loved Milton Berle, Dick Shawn, Phyllis Diller, Don Rickles, Charlie Callas, all those guys. Hilarious. I love the Bing Crosby and Bob Hope movies, and Abbott & Costello. My television influences were 'Monty Python's Flying Circus,' 'Benny Hill,' and 'Hee Haw.'

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • Hope
  • Style
  • Influences

• If the urge to write should ever leave me, I want that day to be my last.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Want
  • Me
  • Day

• You're in a scene with Laura Linney or Oliver Platt or John Hickey or Alan Alda and these amazing actors and actresses, and you're like, 'Oh my God, I haven't even started; I'm nothing compared to these people!'

  

  Gabriel Basso
  • People
  • God
  • Amazing

• We have been supporting GIS in schools for more than 25 years.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Years
  • More
  • Supporting

• If looks help, that's great, but we don't want it to be the featured thing. It's totally superficial.

  

  Morten Harket A-ha
  • Great
  • Help
  • Superficial

• When one fib becomes due as it were, you must forge another to take up the old acceptance; and so the stock of your lies in circulation inevitably multiplies, and the danger of detection increases every day.

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Lying
  • Danger
  • Acceptance

• Indeed the worthy housewife was of such a capricious nature, that she not only attained a higher pitch of genius than Macbeth, in respect of her ability to be wise, amazed, temperate and furious, loyal and neutral in an instant, but would sometimes ring the changes backwards and forwards on all possible moods and flights in one short quarter of an hour; performing, as it were, a kind of triple bob major on the peal of instruments in the female belfry, with a skilfulness and rapidity of execution that astonished all who heard her.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Nature
  • Genius
  • Changes

• Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.

  

  Erich Maria Remarque
  • Novels
  • Modesty
  • Receive

• Does self-acceptance ultimately require another person, or is there a kind of love that does not dabble in the dream of a perfect twinship?

  

  Jenny Zhang
  • Dream
  • Perfect
  • Acceptance

• Bob Crosby: That's like keeping the smog and throwing away Los Angeles.

  

  Jack Benny