Jack Benny Quotes

Bob Hope: Let's not do any jokes we didn't plan on, eh.

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• 'Encyclopedia Brown Takes the Case,' 'The Secret of the Old Clock,' 'Are You There God, It's Me, Margaret,' 'Flowers in the Attic,' 'Gone With the Wind' - these are the books that defined my childhood. They thrilled me. They made me feel like I wasn't alone in the world.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • World
  • God
  • Alone

• I feel quite connected to the past, and my memory. Everything that I've ever done I can still relate to, and feel connected to it in a way. There's no part of my life that I look at and go, 'I don't recognize that person at all.'

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Life
  • Done
  • Past

• It always annoys me when stars grumble about fans coming up to them in the street. I love it. These young stars today with all their airs and graces, they need to remember it is an honour and a privilege to make money from acting. How hard is it?

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Remember
  • Stars
  • Privilege

• Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Me

• Comedians have to write to survive because you don't get cast for your beauty.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • You
  • Beauty
  • Comedians

• In life go straight and turn right.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Life
  • Go
  • Turn

• A rich, robust, well-resourced public education is one of the best routes out of poverty and a pathway to prosperity.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Education
  • Best
  • Poverty

• Starting with 'Forever, Interrupted,' I somehow convinced myself that in order to create content, I had to consume content. What this means is that I have legitimized binge-watching television and told myself that I must do it for work.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Work
  • Myself
  • Forever

• One of the main reasons I am so drawn to Hitchcock is that he planned his shots way in advance on story-boards, which he designed like classic paintings (he was an art connoisseur). It's why he found shooting on set boring - because he had already composed the film in his head.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Art
  • Film
  • Head

• A team without hope fizzles: no flameout, no fire.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Hope
  • Team
  • Fire

• To us, the value of a work lies in its newness: the invention of new forms, or a novel combination of old forms, the discovery of unknown worlds or the exploration of unfamiliar areas in worlds already discovered - revelations, surprises.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Work
  • Value
  • Lies

• I have tons of art books. I have them all over the place. They are in my car, in my bag, and in my studio. There are books around me all the time.

  

  Barry McGee
  • Time
  • Art
  • Car

• The one thing that's changed for 'That Metal Show' is that it's now global; it's now on in places outside of America.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • America
  • Now
  • Places

• I was a candidate in 1991. There was virtually a wave for Ram Mandir. In 1989 also, there was a wave - anti-Congress wave.

  

  Harish Rawat
  • Wave
  • Candidate
  • Virtually

• Billy Wilder is really is a heavy influence on Bound. We felt that film noir was a genre where you could create a really contained story. We wanted to be on a set as much as we could to get the kind of style level we were looking for.

  

  Lana Wachowski
  • Style
  • Story
  • Influence

• I sometimes think that being widowed is God's way of telling you to come off the Pill.

  

  Victoria Wood
  • God
  • Think
  • Sometimes

• What is needed by him who would succeed in the highest degree possible is careful planning. He is to accumulate reserved power, that he may be equal to all emergencies.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • May
  • Power
  • Planning

• I'm a huge fan of good, procedural-type shows on television... there are a lot of roles for women. But there aren't a lot of great network television roles for girls that will let you start a character in one place and finish up with her in a totally different one.

  

  Rachael Taylor
  • Up
  • Good
  • Great

• I don't like it when people say, 'You're 45, so you should be wearing X and never Y.' For me, dressing is about attitude, not age.

  

  Lesley Lawson
  • People
  • Age
  • Attitude

• When you put something out there into the world, there's all these words you don't want to hear, that you hope people don't say. I don't like anything that starts with 're' - like retro, reinvent, recreate - I hate that. It's always like living in the past - copying, emulating.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • People
  • World
  • Hope

• Indeed, I hope to spend more time and to be more effectively involved in the city than I have been able to be at the Fed.

  

  Alice Rivlin
  • Time
  • Hope
  • City

• Success is so fleeting; even if you get a good book deal, or your book is a huge success, there's always the fear: 'What about the next one?'

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Good
  • Book
  • Success

• I had to relearn how to ride a horse like an ape. I had to change how I jumped off and how I gripped them with my thighs and distribute my weight differently.

  

  Andy Serkis
  • Horse

• Bob Hope: Let's not do any jokes we didn't plan on, eh.

  

  Jack Benny
  • Hope