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.
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More Bob Hope Quotes
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There are many talented English personalities, but unfortunately they were all in Hollywood.
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I get upset over a bad shot just like anyone else. But it’s silly to let the game get to you.
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And on nearby islands, the Japanese army was eating raw fish. We felt sorry for them.
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I only speak a little pigeon French. Just enough to get by with the little French pigeons.
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A photographer kept shooting me every time I swung. I was very flattered until I found out he was from Field and Stream.
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I once showed Pat Bradley my swing and said, ‘What do I do next?’ Pat replied, ‘Wait till the pain dies down.’
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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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We have 51 golf courses in Palm Springs. He [President Ford] never decides which course he will play until after the first tee shot.
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Culture is the ability to describe Jane Russell without moving your hands
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Kissing is like drinking tea with a tea strainer, you can never get enough.
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One of our stock lines used to be “There’s nothing I wouldn’t do for Bing, and there’s nothing he wouldn’t do for me.” And that’s the way we go through life – doing nothing for each other!
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She spoke perfect English, which led to considerable trouble. She couldn’t understand us at all.
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It was a typically British birth… I was three at the time. They had a strike in the maternity ward… I came out in sympathy.
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Pebble Beach is Alcatraz with grass.
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I’ve been playing the game so long that my handicap is in Roman numerals.
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It’s not hard to find Gerry Ford on a golf course – you just follow the wounded.
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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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I like to play in the low 70’s. If it gets any hotter than that I’ll stay in the bar!
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All British castles and old country homes are supposed to be haunted. It’s in the lease.
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I just hope I don’t have to explain all the times I’ve used His name in vain when I get up there.
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Failure is the only thing I’ve ever been a success at.
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It’s very frustrating making a picture in Paris. We work hard all day at the studio to get a love scene just right. Then, on my way home, I see couples on every street corner doing it better.
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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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I do try to work out a little. I go swimming twice a day. It beats buying golf balls.
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A very, very religious man. Every time I eat a peanut, I feel immortal.
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We flew over to England by the same route Churchill took. It was easy. All we had to do was follow the cigar ashes.
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