Famous Quotations

They run in my head like that news strip at the bottom of the screen on CNN.


"Where is that goat? Huh? Huh?" -- Sarah D. Satterfield

"ROTC ain't a disease, Will." -- from "No Time for Sergeants"

"I must be up betimes, for I have a great work to do." -- Charles I of England, the morning of his last day

"I have a terrific headache." -- Patricia Neal (Dahl)

"Jo-anne is jealous of Bet-ty Joyce." -- Missouri Ella Isbell

"That little thing ain't got its eyes open yet." -- Bobbie Lee Ramey

"God does not play dice with the universe." -- Albert Einstein re: quantum theory

"...aspyrin and tranquil-easers..." -- Tennessee Ernie Ford in spoof of Connecticut Yankee

"I always knew I was not the best knight of the world." -- Lancelot of the Lake

"I would certainly like to be president." -- Adlai E. Stevenson

"To me, the great adventure is to stay in Paris and write a novel." -- Francoise Sagan to friends who invited her to go to Africa with them

"Oh, my darling! If you go, what shall I do?" -- "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn." -- Scarlett and Rhett

"The eagle has landed." -- Neil Armstrong

"Tom! You, Tom!" -- Aunt Polly

"Now is the winter of our discontent/ Made sunny summer by this son of York." -- Richard III

"Permit me to ignite your cigarette." -- Peter O'Toole as Lawrence of Arabia

"Joanne's gettin' fat as a bear!" -- Gordy Ramey

"I am an A-son, not a P-son." -- Beatrice K. Thomason

"I can't eat flowers." -- Stella Isbell

"This is Karl Pickens perking." -- Karl Perkins on Alabama public radio broadcast

"Oh, goddammit, we forgot the silent prayer!" -- Dwight D. Eisenhower opening Cabinet meeting

"Who are those men?" -- Butch Cassidy (Paul Newman)

"He'll probably make as good a president as he did an actor." -- Ava Gardner

"I don't write for posterity. What did posterity ever do for me?" -- Lytton Strachey

"He's a good fellow, and 't will all be well." -- The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

"You'd hit yore momma before you'd hit me!" -- Dolly Parton

"Of course, you may have the baby! I'll send him to you as soon as he's weaned." -- Arthur Wing Pinero's mother to her sister, when Arthur was born 12th of 12 children

"Was you ever in a torpedo?" -- Joanne Ramey, age 7, to visiting serviceman