Bob Hope on letters
Bob Hope113 quotes“You know what a fan letter is – it’s just an inky raspberry.”
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Eighty is when you order a steak and the headwaiter puts it through the blender. Or when you wake up as many times during the night as Burt Reynolds, but not for the same reason.
Bob HopeBob Hope It’s so cold here in Washington, D.C., that politicians have their hands in their own pockets.
Bob HopeBob Hope I do try to work out a little. I go swimming twice a day. It beats buying golf balls.
Bob HopeBob Hope I’ve been married fifty-five years and I’ve been home three weeks.
Bob HopeBob Hope Golf is my profession Show business is just to pay the green fees.
Bob HopeBob Hope He hits the ball 130 yards and his jewelry goes 150.
Bob HopeBob Hope Ronald Reagan is not a typical politician because he doesn’t know how to lie, cheat, and steal. He’s always had an agent for that.
Bob HopeBob Hope I was called Rembrandt Hope in my boxing days, because I spent so much time on the canvas.
Bob HopeBob Hope The help (in Japan) is very polite. They bow so much, you don’t know which end to talk to.
Bob HopeBob Hope 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.
Bob HopeBob Hope She got to enjoy the personal side of the players. They were her kids. The Braves were her family.
Bob HopeBob Hope Free speech isn’t dead in Germany and Italy, merely the speakers.
Bob HopeBob Hope I don’t do a lot of political jokes. Too many are getting elected.
Bob HopeBob Hope My next door neighbor just had a pacemaker installed. They’re still working the bugs out, though. Every time he makes love, my garage door opens.
Bob HopeBob Hope I do benefits for all religions – I’d hate to blow the hereafter on a technicality.
Bob HopeBob Hope The good news is that Jesus is coming back. The bad news is that he’s really pissed off.
Bob HopeBob Hope
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Sadness shoots a bullet straight at your heart and love buys you time.
Shelby CaudleShelby Caudle Do you think it possible that some people are born to give more love than they will ever get back in return?
Tyler Knott GregsonTyler Knott Gregson It’s been a long time since we said goodbye and yet the echoes of it are still ringing in our ears.
Ranata SuzukiRanata Suzuki In this wilderness, Mankind is the animal I fear.
Addison SchmittAddison Schmitt We can always walk with them in the rain instead of just lending an umbrella.
Leon MarshLeon Marsh Flowers only wither to bloom again. So shall you break, only to be whole again.
Fareena AliyaFareena Aliya What do you do when the passion burns out? Start another fire.
Jonny OxJonny Ox To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.
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Chain letters are the postal equivalent of intestinal flu: you get it and pass it along to your friends.
Bob GarfieldBob Garfield Words matter. Especially ones with four letters.
Bob SagetBob Saget So, I got a lot of recruitment letters from track.
Bo JacksonBo Jackson Letters should be easy and natural.
Bill VaughanBill Vaughan The overall similarity is probably in the mentality of law enforcement officers. There’s a sense of wanting to really uphold a sense of morality and make sure that the laws are enforced to the letter, whenever possible.
Benjamin McKenzieBenjamin McKenzie Truth is not only a man’s ornament but his instrument; it is the great man’s glory, and the poor man’s stock: a man’s truth is his livelihood, his recommendation, his letters of credit.
Benjamin WhichcoteBenjamin Whichcote The best thing Clinton could do — I think I wrote him a letter about this, but I’m not sure — is to shut up. Every time I turn that radio on, there’s Clinton, making a speech. And he makes speeches on a subject he doesn’t know anything about. He has no discipline.
Barry GoldwaterBarry Goldwater I get over a hundred letters a day from all over the world, from children and parents, and it’s a wonder I ever have time to write books, let alone speak!
Enid BlytonEnid Blyton
