"This Daniel Boone business is about played out."
  • Horace Greeley
    (02/03/1811 – 11/29/1872)
    US writer, 30 years after saying "Go west, young man."
Horace Greeley
"If society will not admit of woman's free development, then society must be remodeled." Elizabeth Blackwell
"The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who write know anything." Walter Bagehot
"Virtue consisted in avoiding scandal and venereal disease." Robert Arthur Talbot - Gascoyne-Cecil Salisbury
"Anyone who marries three girls from St. Louis hasn't learned much." Gertrude Stein
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"If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home. You are like a pebble thrown into water; you become wet on the surface, but are never part of the water." James A. Michener
"Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors, who when their turn comes, will manufacture professors." Simone Weil
"My doctor is wonderful. Once, in 1955, when I couldn't afford an operation, he touched up the X-rays." Joseph Abraham Gottlieb
"Being on 'Batman' allowed me to do something we actors are taught never to do: overact."
  • Victor Buono
    (02/03/1938 – 01/01/1982)
    US actor, on his role as "King Tut" in that TV series
Victor Buono
"We love unusual names in the family." Blythe Danner
"There's nothing nicer than singing an unnecessary peace song." Melanie Safka
"They're not paying me to play a charwoman. They're paying me to show up looking glam and, damn it, I'm gonna show up looking glam!" Patsy Ann McClenny
"Look, I'm 40, I'm single, and I work in musical theater—you do the math!" Joseph Lane
"I have so many insecurities they fight for prominence." Maura Tierney
"We all get heavier as we get older because there's a lot more information in our heads." Vlade Divac
"Who is she?"