George Jessel Quotes

#1. My dad loved comedians, especially George Jessel, and he loved Henny Youngman and Buddy Hackett.

Al Franken

#2. George Jessel's newest pick-me-up which is receiving attention from the town's paragraphers is called a Bloody Mary: half tomato juice, half vodka.

Lucius Beebe

#3. I would prefer to have gum on my face than own up to the fact that I accidentally got gum on my face. And of course one sentence out of every ten that comes from my mouth is probably not one hundred percent true.

Alicia Thompson

#4. The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public.

George Jessel

#5. Everybody has the right to express what he thinks. That, of course, lets the crackpots in. But if you cannot tell a crackpot when you see one, then you ought to be taken in.

Harry S. Truman

#6. When a piece is done, I mix it before going on to any other piece.

Harold Budd

#7. That which we call destiny goes forth from within people, not from without into them.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#8. When we begin to desire a thing, to yearn for it with all our hearts, we begin to establish relationship with it in proportion to the strength and persistency of our longing and intelligent effort to realize it.

Orison Swett Marden

#9. People have interpretations of what you're supposed to be like. If you're unattractive and overweight, you must have a great personality. If you're attractive, then you must not be the nicest person. People are always taken aback that I'm easygoing but not necessarily stupid.

Mila Kunis

#10. 1920 was an auspicious year for a young person to enter the world as an American citizen.

Tom Brokaw

#11. She was mine before she was yours," Tommy said, anger in his tone. "All those years without you . . . she still had me. And when she sees who you are . . . what you've become . . . she will turn to me again.

Sarah MacLean

#12. The right of an individual to refuse to kill, to torture, or to participate in the preparation for the nuclear destruction of humanity seems to me to be fundamental.

Sean MacBride

#13. I liked learning but the challenge was that my mother's need to turn education into a competition was ruining the experience for me.

S.A. Tawks

#14. Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

George Jessel

#15. This case reminds me of one in which I likened the Plaintiff's case to a colander, because it was so full of holes.

George Jessel

#16. The human brain is a wonderful organ. It starts to work as soon as you are born and doesn't stop until you get up to deliver a speech.

George Jessel