Rettinger Quotes & Sayings

I learned this early on in the variety business: You've got to give folks responsibility, you've got to trust them, and then you've got to check on them. — Sam Walton

The Rabbit started violently, dropped the white kid gloves and the fan, and scurried away into the darkness as hard as he could go. — Lewis Carroll

As an actor, I think most people have a tendency to want to demonstrate that they can act, they can emote. — James Norton

The difference between listening to a radio sermon and going to church ... is almost like the difference between calling your girl on the phone and spending an evening with her. — Dwight L. Moody

I allow myself to be understood as a colorful fragment in a drab world. — Errol Flynn

I may be a homeless, old man, but that doesn't make me worthless. — Shannon A. Thompson

Public "facts" are not like pebbles on the beach, lying in the sun and waiting to be seen. They must instead be picked, polished, shaped and packaged. Finally ready for display they the bear the marks of their shapers. — Peter Conrad

I phoned the Admiral back.
'It's no use, Admiral, the French speak nothing but French.'
There was a short pause on the end of the line then his voice rattled into life like a sabre.
'They're lying, Tim!'
'What?'
'The French Navy must by law speak English, as English is the international maritime language of the sea.'
'Has anyone told the French that?'
The line went dead for a moment before he thundered, 'Yes Nelson. At the battle of Trafalgar.'
I tried to stifle an irresistibly British giggle not knowing if the Admiral was making a joke or not. I got it right. He was serious. — Tim FitzHigham