Fred Quotations

I dug up my dad's old Fred Astaire tapes, and now I find him super-inspiring. He's, like, one of the best dancers.

Our children await Christmas presents like politicians getting in election returns: there's the Uncle Fred precinct and the Aunt Ruth district still to come in.

Many old music hall fans were present at the funeral today of Fred 'Chuckles' Jenkins, Britain's oldest and unfunniest comedian. In tribute, the vicar read out one of Fred's jokes, and the congregation had two minutes silence.

Fred Thompson was a law partner of mine.

I come from a long line of serial embellishers. Sometimes a good story's got a ghost in it; sometimes a panther chases my Uncle Bill and Fred Price home from a coon hunt.

When I was a kid, I loved Nicholas brothers films. It was like skateboarding. Even Gene Kelly: I always preferred him to Fred Astaire, just because he was more athletic, like skateboarding.

There's an old Fred Astaire movie where the stage becomes bigger and deeper and more complex. Moments like that really did impact on me and influence me.

I always see celebs in very weird spots. I don't always go to fancy-shmancy places, but I see celebs at coffee shops or random stores, when you're looking for a sweater and turn around like, 'OMG, that's Fred Savage!'

I'm a huge fan of Alice Hoffman, Fred Chappell and Susan Elizabeth Phillips.

The thing is that my idols have always been the types of guys who could do anything: Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire, Sinatra, Dean Martin; and when you look up to people like that, you don't accept that you need to be compartmentalised.

I'd love to work with the people who really got the film industry going again through the '70s: Peter Weir, Bruce Beresford, Gillian Armstrong, Fred Schepisi.

I loved old black and white movies, especially the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers musicals. I loved everything about them - the songs, the music, the romance and the spectacle. They were real class and I knew that I wanted to be in that world.

As a result of playing Freddy Krueger, I can remember having to look at some medical books, and at some of the disfigurement that fire can cause on people, because they were the source material for some of the prosthetic makeup that I wore. That aided and abetted this fear of death by fire. Which is sort of what happened to Fred Krueger.

I was very laced with drugs myself, but Fred seemed to be even more so than me. That might have had something to do with it. That might have had something to do with nobody wanting to play my records, too, I don't know.

I make up cassettes all the time - to take on the road with me - a song from this album, a song from that album. That's the way I listen to music; it's like one of those K Tel things: it's from all over. I listen to Fred Astaire, I listen to African folk music, I listen to Talking Heads.

For tech, I like the 'DailySearchCast', 'TWiT' and anything Veronica Belmont does on CNET. I think Perez Hilton is a riot, and the rest of my consumption is by people: Folks like Dave Winer, Fred Wilson, Mark Cuban, Brian Alvey, Jeff Jarvis, Xeni Jardin, etc.

I was sent there by the Free Congress Committee, headed by Paul Weyrich. Fred Smith and I were sent down as observers, with reporters' credentials, so we could witness the events.

Fred Astaire never let you see him sweat, but he sweetened his deceptively casual virtuosity with just enough charm to make it irresistible.

For all Trump's criticisms of government, his family wealth came from feeding at the government trough. His father, Fred Trump, leveraged government housing programs into a construction business; the empire was founded on public money.

I studied dancing for 13 years. And loved to dance. Always wanted to dance with Fred Astaire.

We are pleased to welcome Fred to our board and look forward to benefiting from his knowledge and experience. Fred's global view as well as his background in finance will prove invaluable to the company.

We were trying to keep Fred Gulley from penetrating. And for a half we did real well. That's what you got to do with Woodland. If you play man-to-man, you're dead meat. Defense wasn't our problem. Our problem was not shooting the ball well.

We want to sincerely thank the public for their generosity, and we would like to acknowledge Fred Stone, who put a tremendous amount of work into this project. Additionally, we'd like to thank all the jockeys who were so generous with their time and effort.

When I was 11, even though we were poor, my mother was a fan of movies from the west. She used to bring me to the theatre. At that time, a parent could bring a child to the theatre for free. I was fascinated by the musicals, I think they influenced me the most. Also a lot of Fred Astaire... I loved movies and I wanted to be a filmmaker some day.

Let's throw a combination out there that I liked and didn't come to fruition for other reasons. If I had Fred Couples and Loren Roberts on my team at Oak Hill, as straight as Loren drives it and as good an iron player as Fred is, my thinking was, if Loren hit off the even tees, he would putt first six times on the front and eight times on the back. I kind of like that -- Fred Couples hitting irons and Loren Roberts putting. That's a helluva combination.

No one around me was obsessed with Fred Astaire except for me. It just snowballed, really. I started with tap lessons. When I didn't have tap shoes, I taped nickels on the bottom of my penny loafers.

No. 1 was the coaching staff. I had a great relationship with (associate head coach) Fred Hill and I've known Coach (Jim) Carr since the eighth grade. Plus, Gary Waters wanted me to come here from the beginning so I knew this would be a tremendous opportunity.

Only time will tell. We feel like we have good players. We brought Moose in, we brought Fred Miller in on offence,

One of the first things I told the kids afterward was that Fred pitched a heck of a game. I honestly thought if we made the plays we should have made, they probably had five or six runs, and that's good against anyone.

I was first exposed to the idea of macro-molecular sequences while I was a postdoctoral fellow with Jack Strominger at Harvard. During that time, I briefly visited Fred Sanger's laboratory in Cambridge, England, to learn the methodology of RNA fingerprinting and sequencing.

I grew up with the movies of Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire and Judy Garland - these are the kinds of shows and the kinds of numbers in shows that I dreamed of being in and doing when I was a kid.

I don't even care about that. We can't get into what somebody else is doing. That's their problems over there. We don't even know the situation to get involved over there. I know guys over there, I know Fred Smoot, Moe Williams, but I don't talk to them on a day-to-day basis so I don't care what goes on in the Minnesota locker room.

I don't know which parking lot Fred slept in last night.

I apologize for any wrongdoing I or my players did. I thought I was defending my players, but I'm sure that's what Coach Fred Hickman was trying to do too. I'm sorry about all of that.

Certainly, I've loved musicals for a while, so I did some short films in college that had musical numbers and things like that, so I've kind of been obsessed with Fred and Ginger and Vincente Minnelli and Stanley Donen and Jaques Demy forever.

Chris is committed to working hard, ... He always wanted to be the next Fred Russell. It shows that size doesn't matter. I never once looked at his size.

I feel for Fred. He's like the little kid that wants to go in the party and play but can't. I told Fred I wish we hadn't amnestied him. ... I'm sure he's going to have a long line of people after him.

Fred Zinnemann, on From Here To Eternity and The Sundowners really brings out of me, in a completely different way, an awful lot that perhaps I'd never have the courage to lay bare, to open up. He just knows how to get you to do it, to bring out some inner quality

Fred won quite a bit of money on par-fives which he probably says is not his forte, but he was phenomenal and he deserved to win,

Fred will do three things wrong for every five plays he's in there, ... But when gets his hands on the ball, it's what he can do with the ball. That's why you play him.

Fred Siegel is a great guy to work with and live next to.

Fred now has the opportunity to focus completely on his return to the court without any added pressure, and we as a franchise have improved flexibility under the salary cap to add someone who can immediately help us this season. Fred is a class act and a true professional both on and off the court.

Fred Meyer demonstrates the kind of corporate leadership in the fight against hunger that we need at every level -- from senior managers, to food safety managers to store level staff,

Fred may be right, and I may not have heard it, ... I do not recall his saying that.

Fred looked pretty good tonight. He wasn't hesitating, he saw daylight and just took off for it. He looked like the Taylor of old I thought.

Fred knows how to play the game, how to keep it in play and he's got more game than he's given credit for. You always know what he brings to the table. He has great control. Like most guys out here, he's a very competitive individual.

Fred is the perfect candidate to take over this enormously important responsibility.

Fred is taking on more of the backcountry duties for us. He has been trained to do necropsy (autopsy of animals) on dead elk to determine how they died and their physical condition.

Fred is my Chow/Shepherd and you can certainly sit down with Fred and Fred doesn't care about what just happened on the phone.

Fred is getting better, it's week to week, but he's not going to make it this week. We both agreed that it would be best to give it a little more time. We are expecting him back this season.

Fred is a very astute guy and he's been around this business for a long time. I have no doubt that he's going to run this company in a very positive way for their shareholders. He's a model citizen like his father.

Fred is a key player of our squad, that's why he was rested this week.

Fred is a character actor, and I think the audience accepts him more easily in different roles.

Fred (Hester) and Terry Stanfield have done a phenomenal job for years. It takes unbelievable organization to put this together.

Fred held up well and had some really nice runs. He really did a nice job running the ball.

Fred has given us a good look. He's big and fast and strong. And Mike is doing the same thing. He's big as well, he has speed, and he likes to run over people. That should prepare us pretty well for what we'll see.

Fred has a pressing need for life insurance to ensure that Wilma and Pebbles could maintain their standard of living if he were no longer able to provide for them.

Fred has an impish sort of humor, but sort of a dry humor.

Fred Hampton spoke out against law enforcement officers who misused and abused their authority.

Fred had been getting to the basket on us all night. I was just trying to stay in front of him and contest the shot and I was able to get a hand on it.

Fred Goldman is known all over the world as an impassioned voice for all victims of crime, especially violent crime, ... Who better to serve as this office's special representative on behalf of Arizona victims?

Freddie played better than we thought. He beat Fred Bennett on the first touchdown. You'd think with a freshman wide receiver and a guy who started about three years, Fred would eat him up. But he gave him a little stick step, and Cade threw it in there.

Fred and the crew have set the Monday night standard. We want to build on it and at the end of the day have a grand celebration.

He had a pretty good relationship with Dirk Meyer (AMD's No. 2 exec). It is hard to say who precisely was behind the (Athlon 64) development, but Fred certainly was a big contributor. Most of the technology changes that AMD has made while he was there turned out to be good ones.

He did a lot of good things during his tenure here. Fred built a strong relationship between the organization, the fans and the Booster Club. We wish him the best of success in his new venture, and at the same time, we know Todd will continue to strengthen the Cotton Kings organization.

Whatever happens here is portable. Wherever Fred goes, I'll follow. He's the key.

He's a lot like Fred Gibson, ... Fred had a lot of (missed assignments) as a freshman, but he also had a lot of production. So we tried to get him on the field.

He was my assistant for seven years and after his fourth year we named him associate head coach. The thing about Fred is he's has a terrific basketball mind and he's an extremely hard worker.

John and Fred did a great job. They did an outstanding job. I thought our backs did a real good job of helping. You're not going to leave (the linemen) blocking them one-on-one all day. The backs have to get involved. You have to change up your protection. You can't just drop back several steps and ask those guys to block them all day. You have to run the football, which is first and foremost with us. And then you've got to change up the looks and the protection.

I thought Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers were here dancing on black glass floors. And I thought everything was here. My idol, Walter Winchell was here.

I think you may be able to take advantage of the fact that he is a rookie. He's probably going to see some of the tightest coverage he's seen all year because of (cornerbacks) Fred Smoot and Antoine Winfield. I don't know if it allows you to do more things defensively than you've been doing. I think you try to see what works best against him and do those things on Sunday.

I think when there's a winning program, the guys within should get the opportunity. I talked with Fred about it and he's going to do what's best for the program. Hopefully, he'll find out the best guy is right here. I know Deke would be a great coach.

I think the generational differences and that fact that I was a woman doing a lot of men's tennis matches with those two kind of worked. We all brought different points of view. We all pronounced the players' names a different way so it sounded like there were 14 people on the court when we were together. Fred would say it one way and Cliffy would correct Fred and I'd correct Cliff. I think we did produce a nice sound. There was genuine warmth there. It was just a wonderful time.

It is altogether fitting that we undertake this salute to Earl and Louise Scruggs. For decades, following in the tradition of Ralph Peer and Jimmie Rodgers, or Fred Rose and Hank Williams, they have formed one of country music's most productive musical and business partnerships. The path they have forged is very much in keeping with our Museum philosophy, which encourages an open-ended, broad-minded interpretation of the country music story.

Land on Mars' as a project still comes down to something like 'Call Fred about the Mars budget proposal' that can be accomplished as soon and as easily as any other activity in our inventory of work at hand.

I said I need a little more Fred Astaire and a little less Ricky Martin.

Right now, who knows. I don't listen to anything until I ask Fred on Saturday or Sunday, 'What's up?' And he'll let me know.

Playing with other people and other mediums helps bring other aspects of music out of you. You definitely have other ideas to take back to the Jacob Fred project.

...someone might slip dragon dung in it again eh, Perce?" said Fred. "That was a sample of fertiliser from Norway!" said Percy, going very red in the face, "It was nothing personal!" "It was," Fred whispered to Harry, as they got up from the table. "We sent it.

My mom and I had to sneak Fred into the hotels. We'd be driving all day, it would get to 8 o'clock, and Mom and I are smuggling in this large cat carrier and a stack of these disposable litter boxes.

I think right now Fred is just trying to decide what he wants to do, whether he wants to coach, be in the front office or play. I think he could do all three. He still can make shots. He's very knowledgeable of the NBA to be in the front office or to be a coach. It's a good dilemma to have.

I think he was ready to do it seven years ago. You have to be at the right place at the right time and this was the right place at the right time for Fred Hill. I have no reservations whatsoever about his competency and his qualifications for his job.

I think Fred continues to be a great player. I think the bigger the running lanes are, the better he's going to look and feel. He's fought through some things. He's not the same guy who came out of Florida. We're continuing to get him more room by blocking so he can do his thing.

It all depends on the two guys involved. If you let it affect the team, it will. But Fred and I knew it was just between us and it always would be just between us. We never let it become an issue as a team.

I thought I might whiff, I was so nervous. But I thought about two guys. I thought about Fred Couples and how big a putt he made on 18 to win against Vijay and I thought about captain Nicklaus. That's what our whole goal was this week, to win it for him.

I was nice that (defensive lineman) Pat Williams, Fred and Darren all made plays for us. That's what we brought them in here to do.

We put a cap on what we were going to spend this year. Signing Fred let us move Tait to left side. It was a good fit, especially since we were able to work it out financially.

The putt, I thought I might whiff, ... I thought about two things. I thought about Fred Couples making a big putt to win against Vijay on No. 18. And I thought about Captain Nicklaus. Our whole goal was to win for him.

When Fred relayed to us his decision to retire, we didn't waste a minute in asking him to join our front office staff. We will use his many talents on both the basketball and business sides of the team.

We want to congratulate Fred on a tremendous basketball career. Fred is going to be an outstanding asset to this organization whether it be working with the basketball staff, or using his business skill set to help us on the corporate end of things.

We left there with the greatest love for Los Angeles. Los Angeles did not do this to us. The park rangers, (recreation and parks staff) Ron (Berkowitz) and Fred (Dowell) were the most loving, kindest people we've ever worked with. I'm just so sorry someone's political agenda stepped in the way of taking care of business.

We learned last week we had no director. The executive committee then met (with the commissioners) but we were not told the reasons for Fred leaving. I wasn't aware of any problems and this sort of came out of the blue. He had been doing a good job, I thought, on our comprehensive plan and other projects.

We have gotten to know Fred very well over the past few years, both as a basketball player and as a person. When Fred relayed to us his decision to retire we didn't waste a minute in asking him to join our front office staff.

When we live in communities that are far from extended family, our friends and community become the network of support. One hundred years ago, we would have lived with extended family close so that everyone knew who was going to pitch in and what they would do. Aunt Martha did the baking, and Uncle Fred fixed the plumbing. For most people, it's different now. We're creating our networks of support.

We're talking about how every franchisee counts. Any franchise owner can talk to Fred and make his or her ideas known.

We all know Fred is the catalyst of this offense and to see him get that gain up the middle, it's a big boost for the whole team.

You have to give a lot of credit to Fred because of the way he's stepped up into that third scoring option. He's doing it with perimeter driving and slashing and it's really helping Jermaine out when he gets doubled in the post.

What Fred is so wonderful at doing is to help children understand those fears, but not to say, 'They don't exist; Oh, don't worry, it will all be fine.' That doesn't really acknowledge that the child is afraid.

We couldn't have done this without Fred Berry's generous donation. He's our hero,

Bobby Rush says on many occasions that Fred Hampton was assassinated. Where is the proof? He has yet to produce anything that validates that there was an assassination.