Famous Quotes & Sayings

Don Rickles

The young comedians always ask me, 'What's the secret for staying around?' I tell them, 'There is no secret - just stay around. Longevity is the most important thing.'

David Steinberg

Comedians talk to other comedians the way jazz musicians can talk to each other.

Frank Caliendo

I think sometimes comedians and entertainers and artists, sometimes they get onstage, and it's all for what they want to do. I think you still need to do stuff for the audience. They're the ones who are making it possible.

Fred Allen

When a radio comedian's program is finally finished it slinks down Memory Lane into the limbo of yesteryear's happy hours. All that the comedian has to show for his years of work and aggravation is the echo of forgotten laughter.

Jeff Ross

It's up to comedians to shine the light on what's wrong in the world, and we don't want things swept under the rug.

Jeff Ross

Comedians second-guessing themselves is scary. Poor taste is not a crime and we can't forget that.

Miranda Hart

I am pleased to say that I am not a tortured comedian - I laugh a lot. My twenties weren't particularly happy, but it's the same for a lot of people. In your thirties, you realise that your life and your worries are really insignificant, and you have to force yourself to be more positive and take each day as a gift.

Bob Newhart

The greatest comedian I've ever seen is Jack Benny. He wasn't afraid of the silences.

Bob Newhart

For some reason, comedians are still children. The social skills somehow never reach us, so we say exactly what we think without weighing the results.

Neil Turok

If the universe sprung into existence and then expanded exponentially, you get gravitational waves traveling through space-time. These would fill the universe, a pattern of echoes of the inflation itself.

William Shakespeare

If thou couldst, doctor, cast The water of my land, find her disease, And purge it to a sound and pristine health, I would applaud thee to the very echo, That should applaud you again.

Charles Dickens

I have sometimes sat alone here of an evening, listening, until I have made the echoes out to be the echoes of all the footsteps that are coming by and by into our lives. "Jerry, say that my answer was, 'RECALLED TO LIFE.

Alan Parsons

Any effects created before 1975 were done with either tape or echo chambers or some kind of acoustic treatment. No magic black boxes!

Alan Moore

In comics the reader is in complete control of the experience. They can read it at their own pace, and if there's a piece of dialogue that seems to echo something a few pages back, they can flip back and check it out, whereas the audience for a film is being dragged through the experience at the speed of 24 frames per second.

Barbra Streisand

I remember when I was 5 living on Pulaski Street in Brooklyn, the hallway of our building had a brass banister and a great sound, a great echo system. I used to sing in the hallway.

Justine Larbalestier

When I was little, I made up my own fairy tales, and the ghostly echo of 'Once upon a time' shapes all the fiction I've ever written.

Bob Thaves

Money talks — but credit has an echo.

Aimee Bender

I was with them for all of it, but more like an echo than a participant.

Becky G

I did a lot of little girl groups here and there just to get more comfortable on stage. When you're in girl groups, it's a lot different because if you mess up, there's someone on stage to back you up, and finally I got to a point where I knew I could do it on my own.

David Hyde Pierce

Last year, I finally got my own grand piano, and that was a big thing for me because it's always been and always will be a very important part of my life.

Nile Rodgers

I've found great solace in finally taking care of myself and others.

Tyler Hilton

In general, I'm pretty shy and nervous about a lot of things. For me to get on stage for the first time took so many times at an open mic before I finally got on stage and did it.

Dick DeGuerin

When they finally served Christine, it was time to do something.

Curt Bateman

When they finally got it shut down it was livable in there.

Morton Feldman

I've been living with the minor second all my life and I finally found a way to handle it.

Dana Rohrabacher

Well, my constituents are happy that the Republican Party has finally gotten off its duff, seeing that we do control the House and the Senate and the presidency, and taken up the issue of illegal immigration.

Dave Huber

We just didn't react (early). It took a little while, but finally we started reacting and started doing some good things.

Edward Snowden

If they had taught a class on how to be the kind of citizen Dick Cheney worries about, I would have finished high school.

Cary Fukunaga

I'm never more miserable than when I write, and never more happy than having finished and having it sitting in front of me.

Craig Bruce

When you are finished with it, put it back in the first place that you looked for it.

Taurean Green

We are not finished yet. We are still on a mission.

Larry Bishop

I got it into my head that I was going to be starring in movies that I wrote, so that's what I did. I stopped acting in all things, and I wrote my first script, which was optioned a week after I finished it.

Lamar Alexander

We've got a strong group of Republicans who are conservatives who know that their jobs aren't finished when they finish their speech.

Lauren Bacall

Movies are great fun and wonderful when they're good. But you never get to see them till six months after they're finished. So you never get a sense of whether they're really well liked or how good they are. And you don't really know what the finished product is going to be like, because it's a director's medium.

Mike Elmore

We reloaded the truck and took it to Ernie Abercrombie's warehouse. We finished at 8 p.m. Monday night.

Amy Chow

It is fine to be all focused on gymnastics if that is what you want to do, but once you are finished with gymnastics, what are you going to do?

Mary Wittenberg

We predicted and hoped for a race for the ages. And we got one that will never be forgotten by those who saw it.

Neil Gaiman

As an author, I've never forgotten how to daydream.

Charlie Melancon

I think too many of the politicians in Washington have forgotten simple ideals like solving problems and helping neighbors. The Washington game is more about scoring points or sticking it to the other guy.

Virender Sehwag

We have already forgotten that. We are now looking forward to the World Cup. That was the past. Now, with so many youngsters in the team, we are looking ahead.

Tomas Vokoun

We have a good team. This can all be forgotten soon.

Justin Cage

We wanted to let him know we hadn't forgotten about him. We'll keep it moving for him.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

We have become so engrossed in the work of the Lord that we have forgotten the Lord of the work.

Edith Wharton

She gave so many reasons that I've forgotten them all.

Moises Rodrigues

We are all immigrants. Some people have forgotten that.

Voltaire

Religion was instituted to make us happy in this life and in the other. What must we do to be happy in the life to come? Be just.

Rachel Seibel

We have lots of flexibility and production on this team and we're happy with what we saw today.

Frank Rijkaard

We did the job we had to do and I'm very happy to be in the final.

Vyacheslav Davidenko

We are happy we can play a part in the mission of the first Brazilian astronaut. He will undoubtedly become a national hero for Brazil.

Gordon Godfred

We are happy to be part of a worldwide event.

Linda Ryan

We are happy that things are moving in the right directions.

Stefano Gabbana

We are happy and we want everyone to join in the fun.

Rob Ridings

We still have to win out to get second place, but all I know right now is we're 6-2 and happy to be there.

Kathy Langston

We still have to improve our passing and setting. Better setting will give us more kills. But I'm happy with our digging. This is the second year we've been running this defense, so they're getting used to it.

John Baker

We'll try to keep one lane open at all times.

Travis Brickey

Throughout the project, there will be two lanes open going into town and one lane open going out of town.

Eva Gabor

I love the fast lane.

Ivan Radenovic

I saw that he was looking at Kirk. The lane was wide open.

Kelly Baraga

He was in the No. 2 lane and just slid. He was probably going too fast.

John Bond

I was taught that the middle lane was the one you travel on. The left is for passing. The right is for on and off.

Jim Phillips

It's the schoolhouse that Schoolhouse Lane is named after,

Amy Heckerling

Any time I wind up in the lane where you can't quickly turn off of it and it's turning into the freeway, I just start screaming until I'm off of it.

Marvin Hamlisch

I have always thought of music as a highway with many lanes.

Bill Joy

Well, limbo is not a good place to be.

Michael Chen

Our status is still in limbo after 13 years.

John Davidson

I think the overall trend remains positive, but we are sort of in limbo right now.

Robert Crawford

It's in that limbo stage, lost in space somewhere.

Charles Tatelbaum

Everyone is in limbo until we see whether the plan is approved.

Tim Lynch

This isn't just about Padilla. The rights of all other Americans remain in limbo now.

John Dewey

Time and memory are true artists; they remold reality nearer to the heart's desire.

Lisa Payne

We have no volatile memory, so the tag can go to 'sleep' and still monitor conditions.

Bhagwan Rajneesh

When you want any memory you can use the mind just as you can put on your tape recorder.

Kin Hubbard

A long memory and a long tongue are regular ole cronies

Eduardo Perez

That's the way it goes. You've got to have a short term memory in this game.

Irish Proverb

When you are right no one remembers; when you are wrong no one forgets.

E. Joseph Cossman

If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.

Dr. Pitman

We are trying to reopen the window of opportunity to modulate the traumatic memory.

Natalie Williams

Hopefully, we'll be making (a memory) in the next three weeks. That would be a perfect way to end a career.

Steven Sinofsky

While my friends were busy listening to the Talking Heads, Police, and B-52s, I was busy teaching myself to program on the Atari.

Mike Hooper

When and if there is something to say in relation to the drug testing program we will do so.

Curtis Jackson

I'll have long, straight hair, like down to my back, when I go to Heaven. And I'm not even going to work out, but I'll be in shape. It's a whole new program up there.

Dick Cheney

It's a tougher program for tougher customers.

Chris Whittle

If you could have a news program without commercials, it would be better. But is a news program with commercials better than no news program at all? My view was, I'll take the one with commercials versus no news program at all.

Bud Selig

We have the toughest program now in American sports, ... and I'm proud of that.

Mayor Lederer

Unfortunately, the program is a victim of its own success, and as result my description of it would be a program in crisis.

Dana Gioia

We wanted to make sure the program could work as broadly as possible, so we wanted to test it in more challenging markets.

Bill Walker

Those are the kind of programs we would like to see subsidies shifted into.

Nicole Polizzi

We can't have cellphones, TV, radio or the Internet. If the president died, we'd have no idea. There's no normalcy. It's just like prison, with cameras.

David Dunn

We can always use more radios and more frequencies.

Al Lewis

I prefer that for my own satisfaction over radio, there's no audience. TV, there's no audience. I need the response of the audience, even if it's a silent response.

Billy Gibbons

In 1950, the biggest amp you could get was no bigger than a tabletop radio.

David Walliams

I would recommend that anyone who wants to do comedy on TV to do radio first.

Edward Klein

If it weren't for radio programs like 'The George Jarkesy Show,' no one would know about 'The Amateur'.

James King

We bucked the trend in radio research. We did what no else said could be done.

Bob Seger

Radio is so fragmented, it's unbelievable.

Aisha Tyler

So much of a stand-up's life is doing live radio and having to be funny and quick on the spot with these strangers, and sort of surgical in terms of how funny I can be in three minutes.

William Quigley

I never wanted to be someone who's asking someone to put my work in their gallery. I wanted to be asked.

Walead Beshty

My works look to how images are produced, but specially based upon how the material reacts.

Zubin Mehta

The 'New York Times' reviews of my work have been evenly divided - favourable and unfavourable.

Wynton Marsalis

I generally work right up to when I have to do something - I'm always doing a lot.

Evangeline Lilly

I've not worked with Martin Freeman. I've hung out with him, but I've not worked with him.

Don Shula

You try to get the most out of the talent. Make 'em work and let 'em play.

David Byrne

Work aside, we come to New York for the possibility of interaction and inspiration.

Colonel Sanders

I always hired widows with children, because they had to work and didn't have any foolishness about them.

Brooke Burke

I've always done ab work, even when I was pregnant.