Paar Quotes

#1. Khusrau darya prem ka, ulti wa ki dhaar,
Jo utra so doob gaya, jo dooba so paar.

English Translation.

Oh Khusrau, the river of love
Runs in strange directions.
One who jumps into it drowns,
And one who drowns, gets across.

Amir Khusrau

#2. Jack Paar mentioned that he once had said to a young friend, "Why do you kids use 'cool' to mean 'hot'?" The friend replied, "Because you folks used up the word 'hot' before we came along.

Marshall McLuhan

#3. It was well after college that I learned about depression. I got my first job for Jack Paar. I realized I was sleeping 14 hours a day and just living for the Paar show.

Dick Cavett

#4. That vervey spontaneity became encounter theater therapy under the direction of the Marquis de Paar, who was peerless at grittily vapid chatter, misty bathos, and scenery-chewing controversy. Dick Cavett, who wrote for Paar, said that working for him was like having an alcoholic in the family.

James Wolcott

#5. Try, if you will, to imagine Dwight Eisenhower or JFK or Lyndon Johnson or, for that matter, Ronald Reagan chin-wagging with Jack Paar or Johnny Carson. Richard Nixon did, famously, go on 'Laugh In' in 1968, but as a candidate; and to his credit, he rued the day and hated every second of it.

Christopher Buckley

#6. I guess the best advice I ever got or anyone could get for doing a talk show, though it has not been easy very often, was from Jack Paar, who said, 'Kid, don't make it an interview. Interviews have clipboards, and you're like David Frost. Make it a conversation.'

Dick Cavett

#7. I'm not saying these flying discs don't really exist, but nobody living in Kansas City has seen them and that's a dry state.

Jack Paar

#8. Statistics show that many people watch our show from the bedroom. and people you ask into your bedroom have to be more interesting than those you ask into your living room. I kid you not!

Jack Paar

#9. As I look back on my life, I see it as one long obstacle course with myself as the main obstacle.

Jack Paar

#10. She should get a divorce and settle down.

Jack Paar

#11. It's almost impossible to dislike me, because I do nothing.

Jack Paar

#12. Interestingly, differential cryptanalysis was first discovered in the research community in 1990. At this point, the IBM team declared that the attack was known to the designers at least 16 years earlier, and that DES was especially designed to withstand differential cryptanalysis. Finally,

Christof Paar

#13. Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.

Jack Paar

#14. Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery.

Jack Paar

#15. It was plain to see the Hollywood undertakers take care of everything. If you die you don't have to lift a finger.

Jack Paar

#16. Looking back, my life seems like one long obstacle race, with me as the chief obstacle.

Jack Paar

#17. Randy and I were goggle-eyed as we gazed over the wonders of what Walt Disney had wrought. It was a magnificent demonstration of what God could do if He had more imagination.

Jack Paar

#18. Disneyland is such a big thing to Californians, I discovered that when you cross the border you have to raise your right hand and take an oath that you believe in Walt Disney.

Jack Paar

#19. Variety and the Hollywood Reporter, two publications read more faithfully in Hollywood than the Koran is in Mecca.

Jack Paar

#20. To restore a sense of reality, I think Walt Disney should have a Hardluckland.

Jack Paar

#21. As I was saying before I was interrupted ... I believe the last thing I said was 'There must be a better way to make a living than this.' Well, I've looked - and there isn't.

Jack Paar

#22. Doing the show was like painting the George Washington Bridge. As soon as you finished one end, you started right in on the other.

Jack Paar

#23. Hollywood, we decided, was a nice place to die, but we wouldn't want to live there.

Jack Paar

#24. One gets the impression that this is how Ernest Hemingway would have written had he gone to Vassar.

Jack Paar

#25. The California cemeteries make dying sound so attractive it's a real effort to keep breathing.

Jack Paar

#26. We were ensconced as guests of the exclusive Beverly Hilton Hotel, an edifice so swank that the fire ax in the hall outside our suite said: "In case of fire-break crystal."

Jack Paar

#27. I'm complicated, sentimental, lovable, honest, loyal, decent, generous, likable, and lonely. My personality is not split; it's shredded.

Jack Paar

#28. In an interview Errol Flynn said that his hobby was acting but he doesn't have time for it.

Jack Paar

#29. My life is one long obstacle course with me as the chief obstacle.

Jack Paar

#30. The only non-believer I encountered was Oscar Levant who wouldn't visit Disneyland because he said he had his own hallucinations.

Jack Paar

#31. Then there was the time in Hollywood when I sat down in a breakaway chair and it collapsed on me. I was nearly knocked out and might have been even more seriously hurt but my fall was broken by the smog.

Jack Paar

#32. I have never seen a bad television program, because I refuse to. God gave me a mind, and a wrist that turns things off.

Jack Paar

#33. Son of Lady Chatterley's Lover had obvious commercial advantages (as a title for this book), but it impugned the marital status of my parents, something that enough critics were already doing.

Jack Paar

#34. Personally, I like those mystery shows. Ever since I was a kid I've been crazy about blood and detectives and murder. Maybe I was born with a silver knife in my back.

Jack Paar