Joey Bishop Quotes

#1. He convinced me - Fred Freeman - to go to Hollywood and we went to Hollywood to write sitcoms. Joey Bishop actually paid my way to Hollywood.

Garry Marshall

#2. For Joey Bishop, always was kind of the lost soul, so I did a traffic joke.

Garry Marshall

#3. You know how Van Nuys got its name? Well, one day my little old Jewish mother was visiting me, and I took her to the top of the Hollywood Hills and had her view the valley below just at sunset. Well, mama, what would you call that? And she said, Ver nize.

Joey Bishop

#4. You can cut your hair how you want, but I think you should get to where you wear it normal for the future.

Joey Bishop

#5. There are many things that I find attractive about a woman. Foremost to me, of course, would be a sense of humor-but that doesn't come in a bottle.

Joey Bishop

#6. The kick of comedy is to think quickly. It's a great kick.

Joey Bishop

#7. If the sum of our experiences are, say, our Work-In-Progress, our Facebook pages, our video games, our movies, our Other People's Books, then we don't know jack shit. Is that you?

Chuck Wendig

#8. You're on Facebook, and these people seem to have endless lives. I don't have time to live my life, let alone tell you what I'm doing, or post a photo.

Lewis Black

#9. I conclude you must be a natural horses's ass.

Spider Robinson

#10. I think the media loves taking the most absurd clips for a sport that has become congressional politics.

Kal Penn

#11. Whoa, wait a minute, Coletrane. Are you proposing to me?"
"Well I would if you'd let me finish," he grumbled.

Maya Banks

#12. Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.

Albert Schweitzer

#13. My doctor is wonderful. Once, in 1955, when I couldn't afford an operation, he touched up the X-rays.

Joey Bishop

#14. I don't consider success doing a show for 30 years; I'm sorry. To me, you're successful when you graduate from something. I did a series, I did a talk show, I did movies, I replaced Mickey Rooney on Broadway in Sugar Babies. You understand?

Joey Bishop

#15. There's a girl out there everyone thinks is dead and maybe she is because you know all the ways there are to kill a girl? I do.

Courtney Summers

#16. When walking, walk. When eating, eat.

Zen Proverb

#17. A woman driver went through a red light. The cop stopped her and said, Lady, didn't you see that red light? The woman said, You've seen one, you've seen them all.

Joey Bishop

#18. The fact is that movie stars are as insecure as the rest of us - if not more so. Many live in a luxurious bubble in which their best friends are their trainer, their hairdresser, their publicist, and their Kabbalah instructor.

Graydon Carter

#19. The other day I started to take a course in psycho-ceramics. What is psycho-ceramics? It's the study of crackpots.

Joey Bishop

#20. I love Chicago. I got on a bus and asked the driver, Do you go to the Loop? He said, No, I go beep-beep!

Joey Bishop

#21. Today you can go to a gas station and find the cash register open and the toilets locked. They must think toilet paper is worth more than money.

Joey Bishop

#22. No matter what happened to you, no matter what horrors you endured when you were taken away, you will always be my pretty little girl.

Karin Slaughter

#23. Even though I had a fantastic family, I always felt lonely - not lonely in the melancholic way but knowing that, to really survive, I have to do everything for myself. I had to work and study, and I was out in the street really surviving, bringing food back home.

Riccardo Tisci

#24. I'd also heard that humans were a life-form of, at best, middling intelligence and prone to violence, deep sexual embarrassment, bad poetry, and walking around in circles.

Matt Haig

#25. If you're buying tomatoes pick them up and smell them-they should have a lovely perfume. They need to be kept at fifty degrees or above, particularly during the growing season, because that's when they develop their flavor.

Julia Child

#26. That which is everybody's business is nobody's business.

Izaak Walton

#27. I hurled my fear and my loneliness, my love and my respect, my rage and my pain. I made of my thoughts a hammer, infused with the fires of creation and tempered in the icy power of the darkest guardian the earth had ever known.

Jim Butcher