Carioca Quotes & Sayings

Long ago I used to mutter (as you probably do), "Very interesting," and cast a desperate glance around for the punch-bowl. This banal comment fools no one, least of all the artist, and you quickly find you have lost a friend and alienated a roomful of people, all of whom are pretending they like the pictures with a grim kind of appreciation. — Sydney J. Harris

Fred Astaire is the Carioca, the Continental, the very Piccolino of romance. — Archie Frederick Collins

When an abuse has once taken root everything is arranged on the assumption of its continuance. — Frederic Bastiat

A music video is so different to doing a movie. — Rita Ora

Do not hover always on the surface of things, nor take up suddenly with mere appearances; but penetrate into the depth of matters, as far as your time and circumstances allow, especially in those things which relate to your profession. — Isaac Watts

Much is not dared because it seems hard; much seems hard only because it is not dared. — Wenzel Anton Kaunitz-Rietberg

You know, sometimes you can't just take an armadillo, put it in the barn, light it on fire and expect it to make licorice. — Dana Carvey

You can't have an inferiority complex and a superiority complex. Just pick one. — Anna Breslaw

Regis has a great rapport with the American public. — Wink Martindale

What a queer topsy turvy world it was. It used to be the man who went to the wars, the woman who stayed at home. But here the positions were reversed. — Agatha Christie

For ages, a deadly conflict has been waged between a few brave men and women of thought and genius upon the one side, and the great ignorant religious mass on the other. This is the war between Science and Faith. The few have appealed to reason, to honor, to law, to freedom, to the known, and to happiness here in this world. The many have appealed to prejudice, to fear, to miracle, to slavery, to the unknown, and to misery hereafter. The few have said "Think" The many have said "Believe!" — Robert Green Ingersoll