Memorable Quotes - Page 3

The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it, and invent ridiculous embellishments.

Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.

Tact is after all a kind of mind reading.

No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

As I grow older and older, And totter toward the tomb, I find that I care less and less Who goes to bed with whom.

Strong reasons make strong actions.

I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.

There is a young and impressionable mind out there that is hungry for information. It has latched on to an electronic tube as its main source of nourishment.

I'd have to say that "Mr. Crowley" in my most memorable solo... I had spent hours trying to figure out a solo for the song ... Ozzy came in and said "it's crap - everything you're playing is crap" .. he told me to get in there and just play how I felt. He made me really nervous, so I just played anything. When I came back to listen to it, he said it was great.

I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.

I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.

One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.

The value of achievement lies in the achieving.

Just about a month from now I'm set adrift, with a diploma for a sail and lots of nerve for oars.

I was raised almost entirely on turnips and potatoes, but I think that the turnips had more to do with the effect than the potatoes.

Jazz washes away the dust of every day life.

Helicopters don't fly, they vibrate so badly the ground rejects them.

Long hair is an unpardonable offense which should be punishable by death.

My most memorable moment came in 1985 as we beat the Boston Celtics.

Old age is no place for sissies.

Most of all, I want to thank my father, up there, the man who when I said I wanted to be an actor, he said, 'Wonderful. Just have a back-up profession like welding.'

With fame I become more and more stupid, which of course is a very common phenomenon.

Family dinners are more often than not an ordeal of nervous indigestion, preceded by hidden resentment and ennui and accompanied by psychosomatic jitters.

Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century.

Whoever was shouting about dictatorship there... when I heard that, I thought: it's better to be a dictator than gay.