Lewis Grizzard Quotes

I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

Lewis Grizzard

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• But I did an awful lot of work in Hollywood, and in New York for that matter.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • Work
  • New
  • New York

• The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Winning
  • Baseball
  • Three

• When I was in high school in the early 1970s, we knew we were running out of oil; we knew that easy sources were being capped; we knew that diversifying would be much better; we knew that there were terrible dictators and horrible governments that we were enriching who hated us. We knew all that and we did really nothing.

  

  Carl Safina
  • School
  • High
  • Running

• We got orders to strike the Marshall and Gilbert Islands. We had a task force with the Enterprise. We had two or three cruisers and probably eight or 10 destroyers.

  

  Barney Ross
  • Force
  • Three
  • Task

• Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • People
  • Good
  • Bad

• The old Devil gets mad when you're trying to do good. Pray that God will move the stumbling blocks.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • Good
  • God
  • Trying

• By asking a novel question that you don't know the answer to, you discover whether you can formulate a way of finding the answer, and you stretch your own mind, and very often you learn something new.

  

  Walter Gilbert
  • Mind
  • Question
  • Learn

• Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.

  

  Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • World
  • Night
  • Myself

• I would rather lose a good earring than be caught without make-up.

  

  Lana Turner
  • Up
  • Good
  • Lose

• When we show up in a city, we ask, 'Where's the best restaurant? What's the best beer?' You start doing that, and you get exposed to a lot of great stuff.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Up
  • Great
  • City

• The final phone call that said we're going to be picked up again was just a miracle. We've overcome the impossible and we're still pushing forward. I know John is smiling and so happy that he gets to watch us on TV.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Up
  • Happy
  • Impossible

• A completely disrespectful photographer was asked to stop taking photographs, and then said, 'I've got what I want. What are you going to do about it?' How would you feel if somebody walked up and started taking your photograph? I don't think you'd be very happy.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • Up
  • Happy
  • Think

• There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Good
  • May
  • Saying

• No one politician should be allowed to judge the guilt, to charge an individual, to judge the guilt of an individual and to execute an individual.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Judge
  • Individual
  • Guilt

• It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Work
  • God
  • Quality

• Heartache is very fertile ground for song-making but so is happiness, so is absolute bliss.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Song
  • Happiness
  • Very

• In Australia, I grew up watching 'The Mickey Mouse Club,' my son grew up watching 'Sesame Street,' my grandson's growing up watching 'Dora The Explorer.' So we are sort of saturated with American culture from the day we're born, and to those of those who do have an ear for it, it's second nature.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Up
  • American
  • Nature

• I feel like you just need to keep writing until the writing itself just begins to take shape.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • Writing
  • Feel
  • Need

• Like a pianist runs her fingers over the keys, I'll search my mind for what to say. Now, the poem may want you to write it. And then sometimes you see a situation and think, 'I'd like to write about that.' Those are two different ways of being approached by a poem, or approaching a poem.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Mind
  • Search
  • Say

• In order to work well, markets need a basic level of trust.

  

  James Surowiecki
  • Work
  • Trust

• Plant thy foot firmly in the prints which His foot has made before thee.

  

  Joseph Barber Lightfoot
  • Plant

• If you're doing this because you feel like you have a burning desire to do it, then you'll find a way to do it, no matter what. If you're doing this because you're thinking, 'Hey, this will be really cool. I'll be famous. I'll be on YouTube,' then you'll probably quit, because it's not easy to do for the long haul.

  

  Trisha Yearwood
  • Thinking
  • Long
  • Desire

• It is rare that even a jazz musician finds an individual voice.

  

  David Baker

• I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

  

  Lewis Grizzard
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