1,211 quotes found
“The language of priorities is the religion of socialism.”
“It certainly will be if you are still around.”
“Tell me, George, if you had it to do all over, would you fall in love with yourself again?”
“It would have been better if you had died and Gershwin had written the elegy.”
“A symphonic conductor should reconcile himself to the realization that, regardless of his approach or temperament, the eventual result is the same — the orchestra will hate him.”
“I would like to have been present, if I could have my choice of all moments in music history, when Stokowski suddenly became conscious of his beautiful hands. That must have been a moment. Like sto...”
“He never asks the orchestra to do anything which contradicts the players' feeling of what the music signifies or what the printed notes of the score actually mean in plain musical language. To his ...”
“Incompatibility. And besides, I think she hated me.”
“This piano plays. Which is more than I can say for her.”
“It's not a pretty face, I grant you. But underneath its flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.”
“The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.”
“I don't drink liquor. I don't like it. It makes me feel good.”
“I'm a study of a man in chaos in search of frenzy.”
“Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you will find the real tinsel underneath.”
“My last picture for Warners was Romance on the High Seas. It was Doris Day's first picture; that was before she became a virgin.”
“I once said cynically of a politician, He'll double-cross that bridge when he comes to it.”
“An epigram is only a wisecrack that's played at Carnegie Hall.”
“I heartily approve of her campaign to beautify America. It would be greatly improved if the First Family were kept out of sight.”
“Zsa Zsa Gabor not only worships at The Golden Calf, she insists on barbecuing it for lunch.”
“Ballet is the fairies' baseball.”
