But I do Have to Know the Letters

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The best audience is intelligent, well-educated, and a little drunk. – Albert W. Barkley

A recent government publication on the marketing of cabbage contains, according to one report, 26,941 words. It is noteworthy in this regard that the Gettysburg Address contains a mere 279 words while the Lord’s Prayer comprises but 67. – Norman R. Augustine

It’s not the most intellectual job in the world, but I do have to know the letters. – Vanna White – TV game-show hostess

When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad things you did do – well, that’s memoirs. – Will Rogers

Gutenberg made everybody a reader. Xerox makes everybody a publisher. – Marshall McLuhan

If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that’s read by persons who move their lips when they’re reading to themselves. – Don Marquis

I read part of it all the way through. – Samuel Goldwyn

The Only Satisfaction Comes from Survival

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Holidays are an expensive trial of strength. The only satisfaction comes from survival. – Jonathan Miller

I’ve been asked if I ever get the DTs; I don’t know; it’s hard to tell where Hollywood ends and the DTs begin. – W.C. Fields

In Hollywood if you don’t have happiness, you send out for it. – Rex Reed

He who has never envied the vegetable has missed the human drama. – E.M. Cioran

It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of men. – Albert Einstein

It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly. – Anatole France

The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race. – Don Marquis

Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility. – James Thurber