Putatively Pronunciation Quotes & Sayings

If they played more blues, people would just get it - they try to hold it back but just about can't hold it back now because the blues is really going. — John Lee Hooker

Our local department store had two Santas - one for regular kids and one for kids who wanted ten toys or less. — Milton Berle

I once was asked to contribute to a mushroom poem anthology. I didn't have anything, and so instead ended up writing the introduction. I think that request made me more alert to mushrooms, and now they've cropped up in my work, the way mushrooms themselves do after rain, quite a lot. But I've only just now taken up mushroom hunting, after going to a class offered at my local library. — Jane Hirshfield

A goal without a pan is just a wish. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

I'll never kick dogs, I'll never hurt a child, I'll never slap a woman - three things I won't do on film. — Lee Van Cleef

Make your plans as fantastic as you like, because 25 years from now they will seem mediocre. You will wonder why you did not make them 50 times as great — Henry Curtis

Like Keats he may wander through the old-world forests of Latmos, or stand like Morris on the galley's deck with the Viking when king and galley have long since passed away. But the drama is the meeting-place of art and life; it deals, as Mazzini said, not merely with man, but with social man, with man in his relation to God and to Humanity. It is the product of a period of great national united energy; it is impossible without a noble public, and belongs to such ages as the age of Elizabeth in London and of Pericles at Athens; it is part of such lofty moral and spiritual ardour as came to Greek after the defeat of the Persian fleet, and to Englishman after the wreck of the Armada of Spain. — Oscar Wilde

I didn't think anyone would anticipate this move, because it was so clearly insane. — Ernest Cline

Let's take care of the necessities first: give people jobs, and find a way to get us out of poverty. — Eartha Kitt

Do not believe that possibly you can escape the reward of your action. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I spent seven years in clubs in England, Australia, etc. Not all comedians cross over to sell out in a theatre. — Deirdre O'Kane