Almost every famous person at least once in their life said something that was remembered by the society, and considered meaningful, important or just funny. Those quotations can be mentioned in various situations. Often they are used in speeches or in a humorous way. In order to find some of them grub around.
Fred allen
Date: January 19, 2007
A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.
Radio is a bag of mediocrity where little men with carbon minds wallow in sluice of their own making.
Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for stars.
The vice-president of an advertising agency is a bit of executive fungus that forms on a desk that has been exposed to conference.
A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.
An income tax form is like a laundry list -- either way you lose your shirt.
Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.
Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for movie stars.
Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
[Television is] the triumph of machine over people.
During the Samuel Johnson days they had big men enjoying small talk; today we have small men enjoying big talk.
I have just returned from Boston. It is the only thing to do if you find yourself up there.
Advertising is 85% confusion and 15% commission.
Do we really deserve top billing?
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.
Committee--a group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.
My hometown was so dull that one time the tide went out and never came back.
Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.
I have just returned from Boston. It is the only sane thing to do if you find yourself up there.
Television is a medium because anything well done is rare.
My father never raised his hand to any one of his children, except in self-defense.
California is a fine place to live--if you happen to be an orange.
Imitation is the sincerest form of television.