Celebrity Quotes

I hold communications with saints and angels, even with satan himself.

Attacks of divine transports are of pride and I accept the part assigned.

Never say anything on the phone that you wouldn't want your mother to hear at your trial.

I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

The more you act like a lady, the more he'll act like a gentleman.

When I was a young man, I was overly sensitive to things, and I found it difficult to eat when I was nervous.

What I am telling you is that Matta had a way of making you feel comfortable and that's probably why he had nine wives because he made them feel comfortable and then uncomfortable later.

It was terrible on dates, because I could never eat when I was on a date.

I just did what I did and I still am. It makes you unpopular, maybe for a lifetime, but I'd rather do that than be popular and doubt what I am.

I don't know if you've noticed it. But Duchamp was magnificent.

But the whole idea of the transformation... mystery, transformation, and manipulations - those were the things that Marcel was a magician at. That's his magic.

There can be only one Captain to a ship.

The work to me is everything, and I would throw every rule overboard and send them to the bottom of the sea tomorrow, if I felt there were a more excellent way.

Only disaster can follow divided counsels and opposing wills.

Character is better than ancestry, and personal conduct is of more importance than the highest.

You have to be as fully prepared for the dull game as you are for the great game, or else you won't be prepared for the great one.

Whenever you have a tight situation and there's a close pitch, the umpire gets a squawk no matter how he calls it.

When I'm talking to a large audience, I imagine that I'm talking to a single person.

When I was in baseball and you went into the clubhouse, you didn't see ball players with curling irons.

This is Red Barber speaking. Let me say hello to you all.

Running like a bunny with his tail on fire.

He's sitting in the catbird seat.

Baseball is dull only to dull minds.

Yet the evil still increased, and, like the parasite of barnacles on a ship, if it did not destroy the structure, it obstructed its fair, comfortable progress in the path of life.

The very gradual reductions in my weight which I am able to show, may be interesting to many, and I have great pleasure in stating them, believing that they serve to demonstrate further the merit of the system pursued.

The great charm and comfort of the system is, that its affects are palpable within a week of trial, which creates a natural stimulus to persevere for few weeks more, when the fact becomes established beyond question.

My other bodily ailments have become mere matters of history.

My diminished girth, in tailor phraseology, was hardly conceivable even by my own friends, or my respected medical adviser, until I put on my former clothing, over what I now wear, which is a thoroughly convincing proof of the remarkable change.

It is true I gained muscular vigour, but with it a prodigious appetite, which I was compelled to indulge, and consequently increased in weight, until my kind old friend advised me to forsake the exercise.

I am now in that happy comfortable state that I do not hesitate to indulge in any fancy in regard to diet, but watch the consequences, and do not continue any course which adds to weight or bulk and consequent discomfort.