Funt Quotes

#1. Alan Funt was the first hidden-camera magician. It was the playful nature of the way he worked that really inspired me. A lot of prank shows and hidden-camera shows can be a little mean-spirited. Funt was never like that.

Michael Carbonaro

#2. Now, you have to choose between two roads." Thin-Face looked straight into my eyes. "You can break with your family and follow Chairman Mao, or you can follow your father and become an enemy of the people." His

Ji-li Jiang

#3. My work is a fusion of personal experiences and influences - moody atmospheres, victorian-inspired couture, and timeless elements all laced with clandestine symbolism. The figures I paint exist in their own esoteric realm and time, and each painting offers a glimpse into their anomalous world.

Lori Earley

#4. Mars has global warming, but without a greenhouse and without the participation of Martians. These parallel global warmings
observed simultaneously on Mars and on Earth
can only be a straightline consequence of the effect of the one same factor: a long-time change in solar irradiance.

Khabibullo Abdusamatov

#5. Life is too short to waste on things that don't matter.

Patrick Dixon

#6. It breaks my heart to find myself within the cesspool of reality TV shows.

Peter Funt

#7. We will not forget that Liberty has made her home here, nor shall her chosen altar be neglected ... A stream of light shall pierce the darkness of ignorance and mans oppression until Liberty enlightens the world.

Grover Cleveland

#8. Lord, forgive them, for they know what they do!

Karl Kraus

#9. As a trial lawyer in front of a jury and an author of true-crime books, credibility has always meant everything to me. My only master and my only mistress are the facts and objectivity. I have no others.

Vincent Bugliosi

#10. I was walking in the park and this guy waved at me. Then he said, 'I'm sorry, I thought you were someone else.' I said, 'I am.'

Demetri Martin

#11. In short, this or that behavior wasn't good because scripture said so. Scripture mandated this or that behavior because it was good, and if it was already good before scripture said so, then it was good for some reason inherent to itself, some reason that reason could discover.

Tamim Ansary

#12. Every time I thought I was being rejected from something good, I was actually being re-directed to something better.

Steve Maraboli

#13. fuse generalized awareness with specialized expertise.

Stanley McChrystal

#14. I learned the power of radio watching Eleanor Roosevelt do her show. I used to go up to Hyde Park and hold her papers. I was just a messenger, but it planted the bug of radio in me.

Allen Funt

#15. There's a good chance that if you're talking to me when I'm snoring, it means I'm bored.

Garry Shandling

#16. The colored race saved to the noble women of New England and the middle States men on whom they lean today for security and safety. Many of my race, the representatives of these men on the field of battle, sleep in the countless graves of the South.

Hiram Rhodes Revels

#17. I'm the Barbie, keep alotta plastic. Little pink stars, put em on my jacket.

Nicki Minaj

#18. When people are smiling they are most receptive to almost anything you want to teach them.

Allen Funt