"People would be surprised to know how much I learned about prayer from playing poker." Mary Hunter Austin
"Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act."
"There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there." Harlan Sanders
"Marriage—a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose." Beverley Nichols
"If you forgive people enough you belong to them, and they to you, whether either person likes it or not—squatter's rights of the heart."
"You call this a script? Give me a couple of $5000.00-a-week writers and I'll write it myself." Joe Pasternak
(With Connie Francis)
"Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world." Cesare Pavese
"Few great men could pass Personnel." Paul Goodman
"This isn't exactly a stable business. It's like trying to stand up in a canoe with your pants down." Cliff Robertson
"Only the untalented can afford to be humble." Sylvia Miles
"Claudia's the sort of person who goes through life holding onto the sides." Anna Margaret Lindholm Haycraft
"The word 'genius' isn't applicable in football. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein."
  • Joe Theismann
    (09/09/1949 – )
    ex-NFL-quarterback; he later claimed that there was a smart guy named Norman Einstein at his school.
Joe Theismann
"A duck walks into the pharmacy and says, "gimme some chapstick—and put it on my bill."" Jonathan Szeles
"I'm not one to go around blowing my own horn." Hugh John Mungo Grant
"Now I realize how ugly I am." Adam Sandler
"You can't really expect a 22-year-old girl to react the same way as a man 24 years older than her." Rachel Hunter with ex-hubby