Mel Allen Quotes

#1. I wanted to be Red Barber, Mel Allen or Howard Cosell. I loved their personalities and all of their sounds.

John C. McGinley

#2. I know a doctor who can give you a shot and you'll get over that cold you've got and get better in a day.

Mel Allen

#3. Woody Allen is a genius. His films are wonderful. He's poetic, but he's also a critic. He artfully steps back from a social setting and criticizes it without - I suspect - without letting himself be vulnerable to it.

Mel Brooks

#4. The Elements is arguably the most influential mathematical text in history.

Amir Alexander

#5. What makes us so afraid is the thing we half see, or half hear, as in a wood at dusk, when a tree stump becomes an animal and a sound becomes a siren. And most of that fear is the fear of not knowing, of not actually seeing correctly.

Edna O'Brien

#6. You know I wouldn't know a Louis Vuitton from a Louis L'Amour

Juliet Blackwell

#7. I never reasoned on what I should do, but what I had done; as if my Reason had her eyes behind, and could only see backwards.

Henry Fielding

#8. Of course, everyone would like to play a superhero, but this is by no means me saying I would like to go play Cyclops.

Taron Egerton

#9. We're all going to face extreme stress in our lives, there's no one who is going to escape that. That's the one thing, rich or poor, I don't care who you are, you're going to lose.

Tony Robbins

#10. Here's the pitch. Mantle swings. There's a tremendous drive going into deep left field! It's going, going! It's over the bleachers ... over the sign atop the bleachers ... into the yards of houses across the street! It's got to be one of the longest runs I've ever seen! How about that!

Mel Allen

#11. Ladies and gentlemen, the great number seven, Mickey Mantle.

Mel Allen

#12. And that one is gone. A home run for Mickey Mantle! How do you like that?

Mel Allen

#13. I wonder if that's how darkness wins, by convincing us to trap it inside ourselves, instead of emptying it out.
I don't want it to win.

Jasmine Warga

#14. In 1961, when Maris broke Babe Ruth's record, he wasn't intentionally walked once. Mickey batted after Roger, and nobody was going to put a man on base with Mantle coming up to the plate.

Mel Allen

#15. Everyone always sees more than they remember. And sometimes people see things they're not ready to accept.

Kathleen Peacock

#16. Let the fires go out in the boiler room of the church and the place will still look smart and clean, but it will be cold. The Prayer Room is the boiler room for its spiritual life.

Leonard Ravenhill

#17. The three theater peeps I would love to dine with are Mel Brooks, because he is so funny; Stephen Sondheim, because he is a god-like genius; and Ethel Merman, to compare notes on fabulous belting.

Nancy Allen