Funny January Sayings

#1. Somebody said, 'Get your agent to call the new Bob Cummings show. They're looking for a funny lady.' Within three hours, I had the job. That was January 1955. I had such fun with that show.

Ann B. Davis

#2. You start getting satisfied you stop getting better.

Sachin Kumar Puli

#3. What ever you do, try to do it perfectly because the world is watching you; every step and every move you make. It's ready to crush you down or to build you up. That's the world for you.

Euginia Herlihy

#4. A giant motherboard of geese,
unruffled by the state
police, swarmed in unison,
in harmony...

Kristen Henderson

#5. My love life couldn't be more nonexistent if Julius was all all-girls' boarding school with a moat full of alligators around it.

Flynn Meaney

#6. It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.

John Steinbeck

#7. My goal was to be a network correspondent by the time I was 30.

Jessica Savitch

#8. I'm never tired of going to the studio. I enjoy recording and documenting everything and trying new things.

Aretha Franklin

#9. I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.

Sylvia Plath

#10. I can't believe he's making you wait till January for an appointment."
"I could threaten to bomb the school. That'd get me in quicker.

Jeannine Garsee

#11. If the world market believed that we were serious about energy independence and we were going to utilize all of our own existing resources, the speculators would stop speculating up they start speculating down as we get our own oil out of the ground.

Herman Cain

#12. I am the first Egyptian civilian president elected democratically, freely, following a great, peaceful revolution.

Mohammed Morsi

#13. McMurphy tied a chunk of meat to each end of a four-foot string, tossed it into the air, and sent two squawking birds wheeling off, Till death do them part.

Ken Kesey

#14. Maternal mortality health is a very sensitive indicator. All you need to look at is a country's maternal mortality rate. That is a surrogate for whether the country's health system is functioning. If it works for women, I'm sure it will work for men.

Margaret Chan

#15. There's no shame about any honest calling; don't be afraid of soiling your hands, there's plenty of soap to be had.

Charles Spurgeon

#16. When people were conscious of a God whose character was moral law, when their consciences were informed by a sense of rightness, their watchmen would shout halt when they trespassed the law. Now their watchmen are silent. They serve no king and protect no kingdom.

James W. Sire

#17. We get to see it! January 1st, 2000! We get to see ... all those fundamentalist preachers having to do their backpedaling when the Armageddon doesn't occur.

David Cross

#18. People protect what they love.

Jacques-Yves Cousteau