Top 74 Elmer Quotes
#1. When I was a kid, I wanted to emulate Mel Blanc, who is arguably one of the most legendary voiceover recording artists of our time. I used to watch all the cartoons where he would voice Daffy, Elmer Fudd and Porky the Pig. I knew one day I wanted to do that.
Jesse McCartney
#2. Carter is doing a high-wire act over a cesspool, preaching all the way. Sinclair Lewis, thou shouldst be living in this hour. We have a Warren Harding impersonating Elmer Gantry.
Jimmy Carter
#3. The wreckers against the builders!" said Elmer. "There's the whole story of life!
Kurt Vonnegut
#4. Skiers view snowboarders as a menace; snowboarders view skiers as Elmer Fudd.
Dave Barry
#5. Mel Blanc is a hero because of what he could do with his voice for all the Looney Tunes, the Warner Brothers cartoons, to be the voice of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd, Porky Pig.
Nicolas Cage
#6. Elmer Gantry never knew who set him thirty dimes, wrapped in a tract about holiness, nor why. But he found the sentiments in the tract useful in his sermon, and the thirty dimes he spent for lovely photographs of burlesque ladies.
Sinclair Lewis
#7. Spear and magic helmet," I said in my best Elmer Fudd voice. "Be vewy, vewy quiet. We're hunting vampires.
Jim Butcher
#8. An interviewer once asked me to discuss my collaboration with Elmer Bernstein, and precisely why I chose to work with him. My first thought was: How could I not work with Elmer, when I had the chance? Simply put, he's the best there is-the very best.
Martin Scorsese
#9. Something has got to hold it together. I'm saying my prayers to Elmer, the Greek god of glue.
Tom Robbins
#10. And when Elmer was about to slip out to the kitchen with her to make lemonade, Benham held him by demanding, 'What do you think of John Wesley's doctrine of perfection?'
'Oh, it's absolutely sound and proven,' admitted Elmer, wondering what the devil Mr. Wesley's doctrine of perfection might be.
Sinclair Lewis
#11. Come on, Elmer," he said to his horse. "Let's find a nice prickly cactus you can toss me into.
Abigail Roux
#12. Street, and she was able to give Elmer the three hundred
Sinclair Lewis
#13. I couldn't catch a ball if it had Elmer's Glue all over it. And my father had to be this ex-football star. He didn't know what to tell his friends, so he told them all I had Polio. On Father's Day, I used to limp for him.
Matthew West
#14. Elmer has the mentality of approximately one peanut.
Frank Zappa
#15. Paulie looked thoughtful. 'Well don't use Elmer's glue,' he warned. 'it sure didn't work on the Blackberry.
Dia Reeves
#16. It took a rare person to appreciate a good Elmer Fudd line.
Alyssa Day
#17. Once they've borne children, mothers can construct virtually any costume using scissors, felt, Elmer's glue, and a leftover pen spring. They're like the Special Forces of crafts.
Drew Magary
#18. Research cited by Robert Cohen has made the point that there is up to a gallon of extra mucus in the body created as a result of drinking dairy. The mucus problem is associated with the fact that 87 percent of milk protein is casein, the main ingredient of Elmer's Glue.
Gabriel Cousens
#20. The only identification that would be inscribed on any cat's collar would be "This is the cat's cat."
Elmer Davis
#21. I thought in terms of the enthusiasm of doing it. I didn't think about whether I was ready.
Elmer Bernstein
#22. There is one thing better than making a new friend,and that is keeping a old one.
Elmer G. Leterman
#23. This nation was conceived in liberty and dedicated to the principle - among others - that honest men may honestly disagree; that if they all say what they think, a majority of the people will be able to distinguish truth from error.
Elmer Davis
#24. If nature had intended our skeletons to be visible it would have put them on the outside of our bodies.
Elmer Rice
#25. I would do the occasional score. I thought it was the most thrilling thing. It was instant. You made the music and they played it right away to millions of people. I found it thrilling.
Elmer Bernstein
#26. There's no way I can compete with someone who can write rap or rock and roll. Nor do I wish to. But I've always kept up to date with music changes. I worked very hard not to type myself.
Elmer Bernstein
#27. It was a great way to work. In those days, you had to be there. It was your world. It was your club. Your friends were there, your associates were there, your security was there.
Elmer Bernstein
#28. I did 10 years of comedies and 10 years of Westerns. I really like to stay away from car chases. I prefer the more intimate film. You have a much more direct association with the emotions.
Elmer Bernstein
#29. Aw, dad... this isn't another one of those "oh, you're LUCKY you didn't have to peck dry corn and uncooked rice off the dirt!" kind of thing is it?
Gerry Alanguilan
#30. War is the most striking instance of the failure of intelligence to master the problem of human relationships.
Harry Elmer Barnes
#31. I'm generally pessimistic about the dumbing down of America - especially with summer movies.
Elmer Bernstein
#32. This republic was not established by cowards; and cowards will not preserve it.
Elmer Davis
#33. Victor Young had been hired to write the score for the dances of The Ten Commandments but he became very ill. You were then hired to write the score. But at the same time you'd written The Man with the Golden Arm score.
Elmer Bernstein
#34. When he asked me, with obvious self-satisfaction, what I thought of the scenario, I hardly knew how to answer. I asked if he had seen the play and was hardly surprised when he said no.
Elmer Rice
#35. If a boat is shattered by a storm, the desperate passengers cling to the floating pieces of the hull. In that moment, it's not a broken boat. To a drowning man, it's a floating miracle.
Elmer Seward
#36. The Internet, of course, is more than a place to find pictures of people having sex with dogs.
Philip Elmer-DeWitt
#37. The first and great commandment is, don't let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
#38. Where did it all begin? These are simple questions, but just as the humid summer air that can be felt but not touched, the answers are elusive.
Elmer Seward
#39. When you stop to think about it, so many films today where we don't have that kind of contact are films about alienation. About alienated feelings. We are much more alienated from our colleagues nowadays.
Elmer Bernstein
#40. I'll be riding rough horses when you are salted away in a box.
Elmer Kelton
#41. I made my way on to a grey list, a black list even. That's something I'm very proud of, actually.
Elmer Bernstein
#42. Duck wasn't sure if it was optimism or fantasy, but hope had been such uncharted waters for him recently that he was having difficulty navigating them.
Elmer Seward
#43. I'm a new Goodreads Author and I hope to dazzle my fans with my books. Enjoy!
Elmer B. Medina
#44. All young people want to kick up their heels and defy convention; most of them would prefer to do it at a not too heavy cost.
Elmer Davis
#45. The flaw in the pluralist heaven is that the heavenly chorus sings with a strong upper-class accent.
Elmer Eric Schattschneider
#46. One of the things that is wrong with America is that everybody who has done anything at all in his own field is expected to be an authority on every subject under the sun.
Elmer Davis
#47. Eli was right. The measure of success isn't what you gain. It's what you pay to get it.
Elmer Seward
#48. Applause, mingled with boos and hisses, is about all that the average voter is able or willing to contribute to public life.
Elmer Davis
#49. This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.
Elmer Davis
#51. Art is meant to strike us with Reality, not allow us to hide from it.
Elmer Rice
#52. It is doubtful if a more extensive anthology of errors (William Shirer's Rise and Fall of the Third Reich) concerning the personality and policies of Hitler and the causes and responsibility for the Second World War has ever been assembled, even in war time.
Harry Elmer Barnes
#54. Most of life is a matter of nonessential differences.
Duane Elmer
#55. You wouldn't think it would but my parents were really balanced about that. When it came time for me to be out of the house and out on my own they were very supportive.
Elmer Bernstein
#56. The Time It Never Rained was inspired by actual events, when the longest and most severe drought in living memory pressed ranchers and farmers to the outer limits of courage and endurance.
Elmer Kelton
#57. Power is to be used in the service of others and only secondarily, if at all, for the benefit of oneself.
Duane Elmer
#58. We are born knowing nothing and with much striving we learn but a little; yet all the while we are bound by laws that hearken to no plea of ignorance, and measure out their rewards and punishments with calm indifference.
Paul Elmer More
#59. In such a state, humility is the virtue of men, and their only defense; to walk humbly with God, never doubting, whatever befall, that His will is good, and that His law is right.
Paul Elmer More
#60. In a Time/CNN poll of 1,000 Americans conducted last week by Yankelovich Partners, two-thirds said it was more important to protect the privacy of phone calls than to preserve the ability of police to conduct wiretaps. When informed about the Clipper Chip, 80% said they opposed it.
Philip Elmer-DeWitt
#61. Joaquin Jackson's frank and colorful account of his long career as a modern-day Texas Ranger thrills like an action novel, yet the stories are true, sometimes funny, sometimes tragic, but always gripping. I could hardly put the book down ... The writing is superb.
Elmer Kelton
#62. Today you have something like A Film by Joe Harry. That is patently asinine and ridiculous.
Elmer Bernstein
#64. Men and women of high professional standing have been reduced to the status of vagrants.
Elmer Rice
#65. You can have too much champagne to drink but you can never have enough.
Elmer Rice
#66. All of a sudden I found myself doing things like 'Robot Monster' and 'Cat-Women of the Moon,' and I didn't know what the devil was going on. But if you're going to do areally bad movie, at least you do one that is at the top of the all-time bad-movie list.
Elmer Bernstein
#67. When a middle-aged man says in a moment of weariness that he is half dead, he is telling the literal truth.
Elmer Davis
#68. Truth is always the first war casualty. The emotional disturbances and distortions in historical writing are greatest in wartime.
Harry Elmer Barnes
#69. We choose our attitudes. When we let little things annoy us, we even choose to be grumpy.
Elmer L. Towns
#71. Jerry Goldsmith is the #1 composer working now. He's open to new ideas and always inventing.
Elmer Bernstein
#72. A little honest swearin' wipeth away anger and bringeth peace to the soul.
Elmer Kelton
#73. A bad habit or two is good for a man or a beast. Did you ever know a man who didn't have any bad habits? I have, and I always hated the son of a bitch." -- Charlie Flagg
Elmer Kelton
#74. I packed my stuff, left my cactus BILLY with the neighbors, and got a taxi to the bus station.
Gerry Alanguilan
