Physical Comedy famous quotes

03-28-2025

  • Going to Vanderbilt did a lot of things for me, and one of the things it cured me of was the need to follow college football.

  • You cannot win without sacrifice.

  • The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future the Bible of the Free. Those who are solely governed by the Past stand like Lot's wife, crystallized in the act of looking backward, and forever incapable of looking before.

  • Computers are only capable of a certain kind of randomness because computers are finite devices.

  • You should always have a pencil skirt. I think knees are the ugliest part of anybody's anatomy, so I'd look for ones that hit at the knee or right below.

  • Sometimes good television doesn't depend on money, it depends on imagination and good people directing, casting and doing the job with talented people.

  • There are illegitimate parents, but I don't believe there are any illegitimate children.

  • I venture to claim two qualifications for the great office which I hold, which to my mind, without making invidious distinctions, is one of the most important that can be held by any Englishman; and those qualifications are that in the first place I believe in the British Empire, and in the second place I believe in the British race. I believe that the British race is the greatest of the governing races that the world has ever seen.

  • Mistakes and dead-ends often mean more to these artists than any proven problem

  • As the warden of San Quentin, I presided over four executions. After each one, someone on the staff would ask, 'Is the world safer because of what we did tonight?' We knew the answer: No.