Baseball is a soap opera that plays out day after day, one that a lot of elderly women watch until the characters and the plot becomes a part of their life.
BOB HOPEI come around to your house personally and wet your finger while you’re turning the pages.
More Bob Hope Quotes
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The firm is really ahead of the times. It has a stock market ticker that prints its report on thin aspirins.
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There was nothing subtle about our landing. The pilot just pointed the nose at the ground and let her rip.
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I love to go to Washington – if only to be near my money.
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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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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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Not that they were that anxious to see Ronnie as President; they were afraid if he didn’t get elected, he’d go back to acting.
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Jimmy 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.
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I do benefits for all religions – I’d hate to blow the hereafter on a technicality.
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When I miss a shot I just think what a beautiful day it is. And what pure fresh air I’m breathing. Then I take a deep breath. I have to do that. That’s what gives me the strength to break the club.
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As the colonel and I sat swapping stories in the plane, a jet aircraft buzzed past our window.
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It’s amazing how many people you see on TV. I did my first television show a month ago, and the next day five million television sets were sold. The people who couldn’t sell theirs threw them away.
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Sure Vietnam is a dirty war. I’ve never heard of a clean one.
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I was there. I saw your sons and your husbands, your brothers and your sweethearts. I saw how they worked, played, fought, and lived. I saw some of them die.
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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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The high point of the act is when he (Uri Durov) puts his head inside the bear’s huge jaws. I wouldn’t even try that with my agent.
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