Benjamin Disraeli
"There is only one absinthe drinker, and that's the man who painted this idiotic picture."
"The birds are moulting. If only man could moult also—his mind once a year its errors, his heart once a year its useless passions."
"It was in dealing with the early feminist that the Government acquired the tact and skillfulness with which it is now handling Ireland." Dame Rebecca West
"I never wanted to be a millionaire, I just wanted to live like one." Walter Hagen
"Dinner at the Huntercombes' possessed only two dramatic features—the wine was a farce, and the food a tragedy."
"Nostalgia is a seductive liar."
"Publicity is like poison; it doesn't hurt unless you swallow it." Joe Paterno
"Working in Hollywood does give one a certain expertise in the field of prostitution." Jane Fonda
"I think pop music has done more for oral intercourse than anything else that ever happened, and vice versa." Frank Vincent Zappa
"People mistake me for Laurence Fishburne all the time. And he always gets mistaken for me. (And why not? We've both starred in Spike Lee movies, haven't we?) Even when we're standing together, people have called him by my name and me by his. A woman recently ran up to him and said, 'My daughter loved you in Pulp Fiction! Could she have your autograph?' So he signed it, 'Respectfully yours, Samuel Jackson." Samuel L. Jackson
"There is one word in America that says it all, and that one word is 'you never know.'"
"It's high time the press finally got one thing right about me." Chris Evert
"Student teaching is the hardest job there is. Secondary school kids didn't want to be there. I skipped out one afternoon and went to the mall, and there were some of my students there. But they couldn't report me, could they?" Jane Kaczmarek
"It's a strange way to make a living, and my dentist has made me cut down on eating light bulbs, but I'm never bored." Jim Rose
"I feel like this is a dream—and I apologize for how I dressed some of you."
  • Ray Romano
    (12/21/1957 – )
    US actor, accepting a Golden Globe award
Ray Romano
"A muscle is like a car. If you want it to run well early in the morning, you have to warm it up." Florence Griffith-Joyner
"I have an Alka Seltzer bat. You know, plop plop fizz fizz. When the pitcher sees me walking up there they say, 'Oh what a relief it is.'" Andy Van Slyke
"You can't judge a band by their covers." Teresa A. Miller
"I don't like my body, it's oddly-proportioned. I'd like to be, like, dumpy." Andy Thomlinson
"Now I know how Charlie (Sheen) feels; I've lost all feeling in my lower half." Kiefer William Frederick Dempsey George Rufus Sutherland