Great Ziegfeld Quotes

#1. A mission to Rangoon we had been accustomed to regard with feelings of horror. But it was now brought to a point. We must either venture there or be sent to Europe.

Adoniram Judson

#2. I have a very pragmatic approach to diets. Ones you can't stick to don't do you any good. Some people say, 'Just eat half of what's on your plate,' but I can't do that!

Nathan Myhrvold

#3. There's a lot of Google fascination out there and we share it, and we're going to compete, we're going to compete very, very hard.

Steve Ballmer

#4. She shouldn't speak her thoughts; nothing good ever came of speaking your thoughts.

David Nicholls

#5. And, I may add, from what totally unexpected sources come many of those who from the comparatively modest beginning in the chorus rise to the heights of really great achievement in the theatrical profession.

Florenz Ziegfeld

#6. Suicide is an attack on society
an attack on its omnipotence, on its denial of death, and on its own despair.

Robert E. Neale

#7. Half of the great comedians I've had in my shows and that I paid a lot of money to and who made my customers shriek were not only not funny to me, but I couldn't understand why they were funny to anybody.

Florenz Ziegfeld

#8. It is not much good being wise among fools and sane among lunatics.

Robert Greene

#9. Thus every principle of simplicity urges us to adopt the natural view, that there really are objects other than ourselves and our sense-data which have an existence not dependent upon our perceiving them.

Bertrand Russell

#10. Every element has a sound, an original sound from the order of God; all those sounds unite like the harmony from harps and zithers.

Hildegard Of Bingen

#11. A man is known by his conduct to his wife, to his family, and to those under him.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#12. Curtain! Fast music! Light! Ready for the last finale! Great! The show looks good, the show looks good!

Florenz Ziegfeld

#13. I was thrilled to be rehired for the 1919 'Follies.' Mr. Ziegfeld himself hired me. To me, that particular 'Follies' was his greatest 'Follies' of all - not because I was in the show, but because of the great cast and memorable music.

Doris Eaton Travis

#14. Music has always been such an amazing tool for me to access self and emotion.

Matisyahu