Bert Williams Quotes

#1. A black face, run-down shoes and elbow-out make-up give me a place to hide. The real Bert Williams is crouched deep down inside the coon who sings the songs and tells the stories.

Bert Williams

#2. Bert Williams was the funniest man I ever saw and the saddest man I ever knew.

W.C. Fields

#3. I've actually changed my view of Los Angeles. When I was younger, I hated it, because I thought it was fake and superficial. As I've gotten older, I've found that to be absolutely true, but I don't care.

Aasif Mandvi

#4. I named all my children after flowers. There's Lillie and Rose and my son, Artificial.

Bert Williams

#5. I can't be skinny all the time. I like to drink and I like to eat. I like burgers and bagels.

Chelsea Handler

#6. Your reality being true doesn't mean my reality isn't It's

Sam Killermann

#7. If I was still at Ipswich, I wouldn't be where I am today.

Dalian Atkinson

#8. Noble characters and pure affections and happy scenes are very comforting things. They're a refuge from life's disillusionments.

Gustave Flaubert

#9. Now we do have many examples of transitional sequences.

George Gaylord Simpson

#10. I kind of go where the wind blows, and TV has just been how I make a living so far.

David Walton

#11. I enjoyed school, I was a bit of a square. I did very well in exams. I was quite lucky I was academic.

Cat Deeley

#12. Should I keep back my opinions at such a time, through fear of giving offense, I should consider myself as guilty of treason toward my country, and of an act of disloyalty toward the Majesty of Heaven, which I revere above all earthly kings.

Patrick Henry

#13. When reentering society and risking rejection, the library is a good place to start. They have low expectations. I love the library. Also church. Both have to take you in.

Glennon Doyle Melton

#14. I crossed the room, and what you did was to feel my hair over and over again and in different ways, touch it, with the palm of your hand ... felt it, strands of hair, with your fingers, touched it as if it were cloth, the way a child touches its favorite surfaces.

Edna O'Brien

#15. In my generation, there was a single girl given the strength and skill to fight the spread of darkness ... but in your generation, there are nearly two thousand with the powers of the slayer, and not all of them have chosen to use their newfound abilities conscientiously.

Joss Whedon

#16. It would be more honourable to our distinguished ancestors to praise them in words less, but in deeds to imitate them more.

Horace Mann

#17. The man with the real sense of humor is the man who can put himself in the spectator's place and laugh at his own misfortune.

Bert Williams

#18. I have never been able to discover anything disgraceful in being a colored man. But I have often found it inconvenient - in America.

Bert Williams

#19. Spacewalking trumps everything. Viscerally, it is a phenomenal place to be; to be able to glance right and see the world, glance left and see the universe, and realise for a moment that you're holding on to your known existence with one hand. That's the thing.

Chris Hadfield

#20. Concert. It was a benefit for the string-playing

Jan Swafford