Jack Benny Quotes

Jack: I can't understand it. On your show you always win.

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• Frank Capra, Hollywood's Horatio Alger, lights with more cinematic know-how and zeal than any other director to convince movie audiences that American life is exactly like the 'Saturday Evening Post' covers of Norman Rockwell. 'It's A Wonderful Life,' the latest example of Capracorn, shows his art at a hysterical pitch.

  

  Manny Farber
  • Life
  • Art
  • American

• I am certainly not a good Muslim. But I am able now to say that I am Muslim; in fact it is a source of happiness to say that I am now inside, and a part of the community whose values have always been closest to my heart.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Good
  • Heart
  • Community

• I've always liked SyFy.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Always
  • Liked

• He who says o'er much I love not is in love.

  

  Ovid
  • I Love
  • For Him
  • Much

• The game of football is something I dearly love, and there's nothing else I'd rather be doing.

  

  Dak Prescott
  • Love
  • Game
  • Football

• Great acts are made up of small deeds.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Up
  • Great
  • Small

• I did everything when I started. In Miami I did news, I did weather, I did sports, I did disk-jockeying. And I did a sports talk show every week - every Saturday night.

  

  Larry King
  • Night
  • Sports
  • Week

• I learned denial from my mother. I just never confronted things and if anybody did, I just would go crazy.

  

  Tab Hunter
  • Mother
  • Crazy
  • Just

• Most managers are just trying to survive. That's why a lot of smarter guys have been let go from Fortune 500 companies: because they came up with new ideas that no one would allow them to try.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Why

• In judging of a beautiful statue, the aesthetic faculty is absolutely and completely gratified by the splendid curves of those marble lips that are dumb to our complaint, the noble modelling of those limbs that are powerless to help us.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Beautiful
  • Noble
  • Powerless

• I'm a sexual person, and that's reflected in my clothes and my advertisements.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Person
  • Clothes
  • Reflected

• These wretched babies don't come until they are ready.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • Ready
  • Come
  • Wretched

• Select your friendships carefully. Gather people around you who will reinforce your lifestyle.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • People
  • You
  • Friendships

• There are three stages in this journey that I have been on. The first. the social science stage; the second, the psychedelic stage; and the third, the yogi stage.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Science
  • Journey

• Hist, now, between you an' meself and the stanchion there, this Wolf Larsen is a regular devil, an' the Ghost'll be a hell ship like she's always been since he had hold iv her.

  

  Jack London
  • She
  • Devil
  • Wolf

• Ah, but my Computations, People say, Reduced the Year to better reckoning? - Nay 'Twas only striking from the Calendar Unborn To-morrow, and dead Yesterday.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • People

• I walk in a cloud of wonder; I am glad.I mingle among the crowds; my heart is pounding;You do not guess the adventure I have had! . . .Yet you, too, all have had your dark adventures,Your sudden adventures, or strange, or sweet . . .My peril goes out from me, is blown among you.We loiter, dreaming together, along the street.

  

  Conrad Aiken
  • Heart
  • Together
  • Dark

• Colombian culture has had a huge influence on me and taught me a different way of looking at things - I was always different from the people I went to school with, and I learned to embrace that.

  

  Kali Uchis
  • People
  • Different
  • School

• It is not only the living who are killed in war.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • War
  • Living
  • Only

• If you get up by 6am, exercise, plan your day, and start on your biggest task, then your whole day is different. If you do this regularly it becomes a habit.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Up
  • Different
  • Exercise

• When you cross any border there is always an uneasy moment when you feel yourself automatically an enemy. Artists don’t belong to any group or country... When you are living the truth, the world no longer exists, events become unimportant. But the way of truth is not easy.. ..if you are on the side of truth, you have no power. That’s why you are always defeated. The power, all the power, is on the side of the world.. .I have been completely absorbed in my adventure. No country, no family, no ties. I didn’t exist anymore. I just had to press on.

  

  Bram van Velde
  • Truth
  • Enemy
  • Adventure

• Sometimes when I see a bad performance and people still clap... I wonder if they're clapping because they liked what they saw or because they're happy it's over?

  

  Kanye West
  • People
  • Bad
  • Happy

• Jack: I can't understand it. On your show you always win.

  

  Jack Benny