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
  • Science
  • Political

• 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

• I thought about going onto the first one, Pop Idol. My mum was saying, 'Go on!' But I decided not to. 'The X Factor,' though, doesn't really seem to be a show about musical talent anymore.

  

  Paolo Nutini

• My first biography was 'Our Golda: The Life of Golda Meir.' To research that book, I bought a 1905 set of encyclopedias. Those books told me what each of the places Golda Meir lived in were like when she lived there.

  

  David A. Adler
  • Life
  • She
  • Book

• Around the world, human traffickers trick many people into slavery by false promises of good jobs or good education, only to find themselves forced to work without pay, under the threat of violence.

  

  Lisa Kristine
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• Ever since the morning of May 29, 1953, when Tenzing Norgay and I became the first climbers to step onto the summit of Mount Everest, I've been called a great adventurer.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Great
  • May
  • Morning

• None of us is responsible for the complexion of his skin. This fact of nature offers no clue to the character or quality of the person underneath.

  

  Marian Anderson
  • Character
  • Nature
  • Quality

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

  

  Jack Benny