[steveo_1965]

Frank Sinatra: "We will now sing the national anthem, but you needn't rise!"(Preparing to sing My Way to a Madison Square Garen audience in the early 70's - Sinatra, The Main Event)

[Joel]

No guts...no glory..

Bette Davis.

[steveo_1965]

Dean Martin:"How'd all theses people get in my Living Room??!!...."(referring to his audience)

[Gregory]

“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, And that enables you to laugh at life's realities.” ~Dr. Seuss

[steveo_1965]

A real "old"celebrity:
"Mathmatics is the alphabet in which god has written the universe..."
Galileo

[voice1]

People Are The Worst People I Know

RJA, Jr circa 1986

[ARIES3032]

Christmas tree baubles only become valuable when they are veterans, fetched down every year from the attic, a little more worse for wear each year but worth their weight in Memories.

[rosy]

Christmas is forever,
not for just one day,
for loving, sharing, giving,
are not to put away
like bells and lights and tinsel,
in some box upon a shelf.
The good you do for others
is good you do yourself...

Norman Wesley Brooks
"Let Every Day Be Christmas," 1976

[BobbySoxer]

"I never hated a man enough to give him back his diamonds"- Zsa Zsa Gabor

"Money is better than poverty if only for financial reasons"- Woody Allen

"I'd love to kiss you, but I just washed my hair" - Bette Davis

[George Lyons]

Where The Blue Of The Night Meets The Gold Of The Day, Someone Waits For Me.... Mr. Bing Crosby

[Richard 55]

Jack Benny

[George Lyons]

"Yes, Mr. Benny?"
Eddie Rochester

[beugen2001]

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.John Steinbeck

[ARIES3032]

is one of the sweetest joys of life. By Charles H. Spurgeon

[Marty]

one that came back to mind in the last few days after considering recent policy initiatives of the UK government and I wanted to reply to someone using it but couldn't remember the exact wording, when I realised whoops it's 2012 and one can goggle these things up on the interweb.

Can equally be applied to some of the arguments being set forward in the GOP race stateside too I suppose.

Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well housed, well warmed, and well fed. Herman Melville

[sschweiger]

I love to re-read the essays from the landmark Hofstra Sinatra Conference -- reasoned thoughtfulness; passionate explication; beautiful writing. Truly, a great opportunity to re-live some of the best days of my life!

Here's a neat quote from Joseph Fioravanti: "Time is like the fading mantle of snow that covers Charles Foster Kane's last visible link to his cherished past."

[sschweiger]

Here's Jerome Kern on Irving Berlin:

"Irving Berlin has no place in American music! He IS American music!"

[ARIES3032]

By Dorothy--"Golden Girls" It's not easdy being a mother. if it were easy. fathers wouild do it.

[Marty]

and

A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog’s ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins........Charles Lamb

[SBRMD]

"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

"When you own a hammer, everything looks like a nail." -Many (don't know who said it first...)

"Know him? I invented him!" -John O'Hara (author of Broadway show Pal Joey, referring to FS)