Bob Keeshan

“The responsibility of parents is to raise children who do not need parents”. –Bob Keeshan

George Halas

“Many people flounder about in life because they have no purpose. Before it is possible to achieve anything, an objective must be set”. –George Halas

Sacha Guitry

“When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her”. –Sacha Guitry

George Steinbrenner

“Winning is the most important thing in my life, after breathing. Breathing first, winning next”. –George Steinbrenner

Jaco Pastorius

“It ain’t braggin’ if you can back it up”. –Jaco Pastorius

Ingmar Bergman

“The moments before he died, Christ was seized by doubt. Surely that must have been his greatest hardship? God’s silence”. –Ingmar Bergman

Sam Cooke

“There’s been times that I thought I couldn’t last for long, But now I think I’m able to carry on. It’s been a long, a long time coming, But I know a change is gonna come, oh yes it will”. –Sam Cooke

Marvin Gaye

“If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else”. –Marvin Gaye

Curtis Mayfield

“Don’t worry – if there’s a hell below, we all gonna go”. –Curtis Mayfield

Eazy-E

“Don’t quote me boy, cause I ain’t said shit”. –Eazy-E

Frank Sinatra

“If you possess something but you can’t give it away, then you don’t possess it… It possesses you”. –Frank Sinatra

Bob Hope

“A bank is a place that will lend you money, if you can prove that you don’t need it”. –Bob Hope

Michael Jackson

“The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work”. –Michael Jackson

Harry Houdini

“I knew, as everyone knows, that the easiest way to attract a crowd is to let it be known that at a given time and a given place some one is going to attempt something that in the event of failure will mean sudden death”. –Harry Houdini

Richard Pryor

“I went through every phone book in Africa, and I didn’t find one god damned Pryor!”

Jim Morrison

“It hurts to set you free, but you’ll never follow me”. –Jim Morrison

Steve Allen

“Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out checks, and the politicians and other compromised officials improve their bank balances”. –Steve Allen

Christopher Reeve

“So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable”. –Christopher Reeve

Redd Foxx

“Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing”. –Redd Foxx

Michael Crichton

“We are all assumed, these days, to reside at one extreme of the opinion spectrum, or another. We are pro-abortion or anti-abortion. We are free traders or protectionists. We are pro-private sector or pro-big government. We are feminists or chauvinists. But in the real world, few of us holds these extreme views. There is instead a spectrum of opinion”. –Michael Crichton

Orson Welles

“The ideal American-type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality, there are few left”. –Orson Welles

Marlon Brando

“I don’t think its in the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed”. –Marlon Brando

John Lennon

“I think we’re being run by maniacs for maniacal ends, and I think I’m liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That’s what’s insane about it”. –John Lennon

Bruce Lee

“Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it”. –Bruce Lee

James Cagney

“If the American family has seemed in danger of disintegration, I believe and hope it will survive, and I think America will return to old values”. –James Cagney

Charlton Heston

“Political correctness is tyranny with manners”. –Charlton Heston

Timothy Leary

“Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition”. –Timothy Leary

Frederico Fellini

“It’s easier to be faithful to a restaurant than it is to a woman”. –Frederico Fellini

Norman Mailer

“I find now that women have achieved some power and recognition they are quite the equal of men in every stupidity and vice and misjudgment that we’ve exercised throughout history”. –Norman Mailer

Paul Newman

“If you’re playing a poker game, and you look around the table and can’t tell who the sucker is, it’s you”. –Paul Newman

John Wayne

“Life is tough, but it’s tougher when you’re stupid”. –John Wayne

Lucille Ball

“I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done”. –Lucille Ball

Chet Atkins

“Years from now, after I’m gone, someone will listen to what I’ve done and know I was here. They may not know, or care, who I was, but they’ll hear my guitars speaking for me”. –Chet Atkins

Frank Zappa

“Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe”. –Frank Zappa

Boris Marshalov

“Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens, and then everybody disagrees”. –Boris Marshalov

Andy Warhol

“What’s great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest”. –Andy Warhol

Gene Roddenberry

“We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing, all-powerful god, who creates faulty humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes”. –Gene Roddenberry

Howard Hughes

“I’m not a paranoid deranged millionaire. Goddammit, I’m a billionaire”. –Howard Hughes

George Harrison

“The farther one travels, the less one really knows”. –George Harrison

Stanley Kubrick

“The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes”. –Stanley Kubrick