The poets were not alone in sanctioning myths, for long before the poets the states and the lawmakers had sanctioned them as a useful expedient. They needed to control the people by superstitious fears, and these cannot be aroused without myths and marvels.
Mikhail Strabo
When Jerry Lewis and I were big, we used to go to parties, and everybody thought I was big-headed and stuck up, and I wasn't. It was because I didn't know how to speak good English, so I used to keep my mouth shut.
Dean Martin
Johnny was and is the North Star; you could guide your ship by him. The greatest of the greats - then and now.
Johnny Cash
Take life one basket at a time.
Jackie Wilson
Live every day like it's your last.
Frank Sinatra
I judge a restaurant by the bread and by the coffee.
Burt Lancaster
To be successful in show business, all you need are 50 good breaks.
Walter Matthau
My only problem is finding a way to play my fortieth fallen female in a different way from my thirty-ninth.
Barbara Stanwyck
Diabetes is an all-too-personal time bomb which can go off today, tomorrow, next year, or 10 years from now - a time bomb affecting millions like me and the children here today.
Mary Tyler Moore
Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.
Kurt Russell
It's hard to be free but when it works, it' s worth it!
Janis Joplin
May God bless and keep you always,
May your wishes all come true,
May you always do for others
And let others do for you.
May you build a ladder to the stars
And climb on every rung,
May you stay forever young.
Bob Dylan
Think globally, act locally.
Paul Mccartney
The only way I'll get you is to get you in bed.
Ringo Starr
There's high, and there's high, and to get really high--I mean so high that you can walk on the water, that high-that's where I'm going'.
George Harrison
Would those of you in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry.
John Lennon
Sonny and Cher.
Cher
When we have begun to take charge of our lives, to own ourselves, there is no longer any need to ask permission of someone.
George O Neil
This is not a tough job. You read a script. If you like the part and the money is O.K., you do it. Then you remember your lines. You show up on time. You do what the director tells you to do. When you finish, you rest and then go on to the next part. That's it.
Robert Mitchum
How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.
Barbra Streisand
"as i look back...over my life...i am struck by post cards...ruined snapshots...faded posters...of a time..i can't recall
Jim Morrison
When you get married you forget about kissing other women.
Pat Boone
A lot of fellows nowadays have a B. A., M. D., or Ph. D. Unfortunately, they don't have a J. O. B.
Fats Domino
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law.
Dick Clark
I dress for women and I undress for men.
Angie Dickenson
When people tell you how young you look, they are telling you how old you are.
Cary Grant
No TV performance takes such careful preparation as an off-the-cuff talk.
Richard M Nixon
Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.