Flip Wilson Quotes

#1. I just liked stand-up comedy so much. I used to memorize Bill Cosby albums and other people's albums, George Carlin, Flip Wilson.

Drew Carey

#2. I think Flip Wilson is a brillant comedian.

Bobby Darin

#3. I became the storyteller of South Side Chicago. I used an old Kiwi liquid shoe polish as a microphone. I'd go around the house interviewing everybody, telling stupid jokes, doing voices. I mimicked Sidney Poitier, Sammy Davis Jr., people on 'Laugh-In,' Flip Wilson.

Bernie Mac

#4. People fantasize about being a hero and helping someone in trouble. Batman is that fantasy realized - not just for Bruce Wayne, but for the audience.

Kevin Conroy

#5. I think Mr. Wilson will have to be the rest of the way alone.

Flip Wilson

#6. Being your own man does not mean taking advantage of anyone else.

Flip Wilson

#7. My show is my statement. What I have to say is on the screen. My life is my own. I don't want to talk about my private self. Why should I?

Flip Wilson

#8. The more comfort becomes your priority, the more contracted you become with fear.

T. Harv Eker

#9. You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine.

Flip Wilson

#10. One of the great things about doing animated movies is that you don't have to dress up or put on make-up.

Tina Fey

#11. The power granted the Attorney General to intervene in all equal-protection-of-the-law cases is extremely broad and dangerous. Choices made by the Attorney General could follow a political and selected pattern.

John Sparkman

#12. As a warrior, she won't have allowed herself to mourn. But women can't make themselves as detached as men. Our hearts are bigger. We feel loss in a way men don't. Orna has the body and mind of a warrior but her heart is like mine, and I know inside she's weeping.

Darren Shan

#13. I believed that our own public would keep this in mind even in this serious crisis, and stand firm if only we at the front continued to stand firm too.

Paul Von Hindenburg

#14. Things can be funny only when we are in fun. When we're 'dead earnest,' humor is the only thing that is dead.

Flip Wilson

#15. Violence is a tool of the ignorant.

Flip Wilson

#16. I was number one in the ratings four times last year and twice this season. What could be more damn equal than that? If they get any more equal, I don't want it.

Flip Wilson

#17. If I had my whole life to live over again, I don't think I'd have the strength.

Flip Wilson

#18. It's later than it's ever been.

Flip Wilson

#19. Don't order one for the road, because the road is already laid out.

Flip Wilson

#20. It would be ridiculous for me to say anything negative regarding blacks having an equal opportunity on TV.

Flip Wilson

#21. The cost of living is going up and the chance of living is going down.

Flip Wilson

#22. The devil made me do it.

Flip Wilson

#23. When you're hot, you're hot; when you're not, you're not.

Flip Wilson

#24. Yet because her needs and yearnings are real and pressing, she must find some way to express them: she puts into body what she cannot yet put into words. Her eating disorder serves as her voice, her attempt to express and meet her needs and desires without directly asking for anything.

Sheila M. Reindl

#25. There was so much we had done to ourselves, so much we said in our sessions that our hearts were rent with sorrow. There is so much that happens to the human heart that is in the realm of the unthinkable, the unknowable, the unbearable. (95)

Robert Goolrick

#26. My main point is to be funny; if I can slip a message in there, fine.

Flip Wilson

#27. My happiest memory of childhood was my first birthday in reform school. This teacher took an interest in me. In fact, he gave me the first birthday presents I ever got: a box of Cracker Jacks and a can of ABC shoe polish.

Flip Wilson

#28. With all the trouble black people have, they try to forget on weekends. You've got to be good to make them laugh.

Flip Wilson

#29. Nobody can prepare you for the loss of a parent.

Samantha Bond

#30. Find out the difference between ethics and morality, but never forget to be kind.

Debasish Mridha

#31. True beauty is not related to what color your hair is or what color your eyes are. True beauty is about who you are as a human being, your principles, your moral compass.

Ellen DeGeneres

#32. Funny is an attitude.

Flip Wilson

#33. It takes a noble man to plant a seed for a tree that will someday give shade to people he may never meet.

D. Elton Trueblood

#34. The first sign of a 'smoking gun,' they argue, may be a mushroom cloud.

Judith Miller

#35. Being a comedian is like being a con man. You have to make 'em like you before you can fool 'em.

Flip Wilson

#36. Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don't get sick you're missing half the fun.

Flip Wilson

#37. Funny is not a color. Being black is only good from the time you get from the curtain to the microphone.

Flip Wilson

#38. When you take action on ideas and tactics you will begin to uncover great potential and begin to unleash it for the betterment of yourself, your organization and the world.

Kevin Eikenberry

#39. I'm not really into comfort books. There are too many of those as it is. Just sort of narcotic books, like my grandmother used to read. They have value like Paxil has value, but there's plenty of them in the world already. There's a shortage of confronting, stimulating, exciting books.

Chuck Palahniuk