I love flying. I’ve been to almost as many places as my luggage.
BOB HOPEYou could buy my book in a paperback edition for a dollar, and in hard covers for $3.50. And for fifty cents extra.
More Bob Hope Quotes
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YOU CAN ONLY DO ONE THING AT A TIME SO CONCENTRATE ON IT.
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Personally, I never drink on Oscar nights, as it interferes with my suffering.
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Out here in the Pacific, they have typhoons and hurricanes that blow over 200 miles an hour. We have tornadoes and hurricanes back home, but I don’t worry about them. The mortgage on my house is so heavy that nothing could budge it.
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Culture is the ability to describe Jane Russell without moving your hands
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He hits the ball 130 yards and his jewelry goes 150.
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England occupies a warm spot in my affections. It was the scene of my greatest performance. I was born there.
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It’s a wonderful world. It may destroy itself but you’ll be able to watch it all on TV.
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The old water heater in my dressing room was working, but it was kind of tired. It gave off about as much warmth as an agent’s handshake.
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I have too much money invested in sweaters.
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I’ve never wanted an Oscar, although they are reassuring to an actor who doesn’t know how really great he is.
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Tokyo cab drivers are all ex-kamikaze pilots.
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I have the perfect simplified tax form for government. Why don’t they just print our money with a return address on it?
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When she started to play, Steinway came down personally and rubbed his name off the piano.
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Timing is the essence of life, and definitely of comedy.
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One of the greatest gifts to mankind is laughter, and one of the greatest gifts to laughter is Lucille Ball. God has her now but thanks to television, we’ll have her forever.
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If you think golf is relaxing, you’re not playing it right.
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I have seen what a laugh can do. It can transform almost unbearable tears into something bearable, even hopeful.
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Pebble Beach is Alcatraz with grass.
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Television is the box they buried entertainment in.
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A James Cagney love scene is one where he lets the other guy live.
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I do benefits for all religions – I’d hate to blow the hereafter on a technicality.
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I saw more courage, more good humor in the face of discomfort, more love in an era of hate and more devotion to duty than could exist under tyranny.
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The workers love Khrushchev very much. He hasn’t got an enemy in the entire country. Quite a few under it.
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On one hole, I hit an alligator so hard, he’s now my golf bag.
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A very, very religious man. Every time I eat a peanut, I feel immortal.
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I’ve always felt England was a great place for a comic to work. It’s an island and the audience can’t run very far.
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