Best Abbott And Costello Quotes

#1. It gets boring at home. How many reruns of Abbott and Costello movies can a guy watch on TV?

Bud Abbott

#2. Although in Abbott and Costello, and straight man was first. That's a very interesting concept.

Harvey Korman

#3. Nobody in life gets exactly what they though they were going to get.
But if you work really hard and are kind, amazing things will happen.
I'm telling you: Amazing things will happen.

Conan O'Brien

#4. Sometimes what we need from the Bible is not the fulfillment of our dream, but the swallowing up of our failed dream in the all-satisfying glory of Christ. We do not always know the path of deepest joy.

John Piper

#5. Abbott and Costello were huge for me as a very young person.

Tim Heidecker

#6. Government restrictions are attractive to people who want to impose their pet notions without having to count the costs.

Thomas Sowell

#7. My father's like - it's as if he was transparent. He's a man of great mystery, whereas apparently N.C. Wyeth was 6-feet, 2-inches tall, with a booming voice. I think that's reflected in their work.

Jamie Wyeth

#8. It gets so boring at home. After all, how many reruns of Abbott and Costello movies can a guy watch on television?

Bud Abbott

#9. Though no one would want to be sold as a slave, it is perhaps even more galling to be a sort of utility slave whom no one will buy.

C.S. Lewis

#10. Dealing with sketch comedy and buddy teams like Abbott and Costello, Bob Hope and Bing Crosby - I just loved buddy comedies.

Drake Bell

#11. People are going to see both of us and think it's an Abbott and Costello kind of thing. It's not an easy switch. It's not an easy transition from TV to film.

Ray Romano

#12. Every drummer that had a name, had a name because of his individual playing. He didn't sound like anybody else, So everybody that I ever listened to, in some form, influenced my taste.

Buddy Rich

#13. Anyone who expects fairness in this life is seriously misinformed.

Jack Higgins

#14. This whole conversation was turning into a twisted version of Abbot & Costello's Who's on First.

Kelly Moran

#15. Whatever people are doing, they're probably going to be doing it five years from now. You have your banker, your general store runner, the principal of the school, and things of that sort. It's nice to see that, and to get old with other people.

Valerie June

#16. [T]he radical geographer Iain Boal had prophesied, The longing for a better world will need to arise at the imagined meeting place of many movements of resistance, as many as there are sites of closure and exclusion. The resistance will be as transnational capitalism.

Rebecca Solnit

#17. My earliest childhood memories are of watching Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein and Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed. I remember not liking Frankenstein then and going, "Who is this bald guy?" But I love it now.

Quentin Tarantino