Pull out the stopper! Let’s have a whopper! / But get me to the church on time!.
ALAN JAY LERNERYou will follow every mountain, sea and shore, You will see from far and near a world you’ve never seen before.
More Alan Jay Lerner Quotes
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On a clear day, rise and look around you, and you’ll see who you are.
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The winter is forbidden till December, And exits March the second on the dot.
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Stay close to the young… and a little rubs off.
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We met at nine We met at eight I was on time No, you were late Ah yes! I remember it well.
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We used to say that inside Cecil Beaton there was another Cecil Beaton sending out lots of little Cecils into the world. One did the sets, another did the costumes.
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The female sex has no greater fan than I, and I have the bills to prove it.
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Why can’t a woman be more like a man?
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Thank heaven for little girls! For little girls get bigger every day.
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Why can’t the English teach their children how to speak?
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If you can’t paint in Paris, you’d better give up and marry the boss’s daughter.
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Pleasure without joy is as hollow as passion without tenderness.
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A third took the photographs. Another put the sketches in an exhibition, then into magazines, then in a book.
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Just look at it. No wonder so many artists have come here and called it home. Brother.
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A schedule so tight that it would only work if I didn’t sleep on Monday nights.
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Coughing in the theater is not a respiratory ailment. It is a criticism.
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On a clear day, how it will astound you That the glow of your feelings outshines every star.
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Why can’t a woman be more like a man? Men are so honest, so thoroughly square.
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All to often, however, what she [the woman] does want is the man she hopes she will make out of the man she already has.
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Don’t let it be forgot, that once there was a spot, for one brief shining moment, that was known as Camelot.
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There even are places where English completely disappears. In America, they haven’t used it for years!
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You see what happens today. Women act like men and want to be treated like women.
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I could have spread my wings and done a thousand things I’ve never done before.
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You write a hit the same way you write a flop.
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I could have danced all night!
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I’m getting married in the morning! / Ding dong! the bells are gonna chime.
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Back home everyone said I didn’t have any talent. They might be saying the same thing over here, but it sounds better in French.
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