The service at the Imperial (Tokyo) is the finest I’ve encountered anywhere. There was a button next to my bed marked ROOM SERVICE – and a maid to press it for me.
BOB HOPEJimmy Stewart could have been a good golfer, but he speaks so slowly that by the time he yells ‘Fore!’ the guy he’s hit is already in an ambulance on the way to the hospital.
More Bob Hope Quotes
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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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I do try to work out a little. I go swimming twice a day. It beats buying golf balls.
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The help (in Japan) is very polite. They bow so much, you don’t know which end to talk to.
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Milton Hope led the singing of Happy Birthday … He would say, ‘Keep it sweet and short and don’t try to be funny.’
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President Eisenhower has given up golf for painting. It takes fewer strokes.
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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.
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A few years ago he had a big heart transplant in Chicago, a five-hour operation. It took the doctors four hours to get him on the operating table.
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Rock and roll is catching on all over . . . France . . . England . . . They even have it in Japan, only over there they call it judo.
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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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You could buy my book in a paperback edition for a dollar, and in hard covers for $3.50. And for fifty cents extra.
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He was bare chested and in good trim. I said that just looking at him I knew there would always be an England
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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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When they asked Jack Benny to do something for the Actor’s Orphanage – he shot both his parents and moved in.
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I don’t know if the presidential candidates are running for the White House or Animal House.
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I do benefits for all religions – I’d hate to blow the hereafter on a technicality.
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