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Letter "F" » Fred Allen Quotes
«An actor's popularity is fleeting. His success has the life expectancy of a small boy who is about to look into a gas tank with a lighted match.»
Author: Fred Allen
(Comedian)
| About:
Actors and acting
| Keywords:
expectancy, fleeting, gas, gas tank, lighted, look into, match, popularity, tank, tanked, tanks, tink
«The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.»
«The first time I sang in the church choir; two hundred people changed their religion.»
«Television is the triumph of machine over people.»
«Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.»
«Television is a triumph of equipment over people and the minds that control it are so small that you could put them in a gnat's navel with room left over for two caraway seeds and an agent's heart»
Author: Fred Allen
(Comedian)
| About:
Television
| Keywords:
agent, caraway, control it, control room, equipment, gnat, gnats, left over, navel, navels
«The American arrives in Paris with a few French phrases he has culled from a conversational guide or picked up from a friend who owns a beret.»
Author: Fred Allen
(Comedian)
| About:
America and Americans
| Keywords:
arrives, beret, conversational, cull, culled, owns, Paris, phrases, picked
«Everywhere outside New York City is Bridgeport, Connecticut.»
«I play a musical instrument a little, but only for my own amazement.»
Author: Fred Allen
(Comedian)
| Keywords:
amazement, musical, musical instrument, musical instruments
«During the Samuel Johnson days they had big men enjoying small talk; today we have small men enjoying big talk»
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