Top 100 Quotes About Godfrey
#1. That was an evil terror
an ugly inmate to have found a nestling-place in Godfrey's kindly disposition; but no disposition is a security from evil wishes to a man whose happiness hangs on duplicity.
George Eliot
#2. The fact is Jerry Weintraub, the handsome, bearish movie producer, the man with the long career, who worked with Arthur Godfrey and Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra and George Clooney, is a great storyteller - he's this as much as he's anything else. He takes time telling stories, too.
Rich Cohen
#3. There had been a time in Godfrey's life when, had she stood before him in all her splendor, he would have turned from her, because of her history, with a sad disgust. Was he less pure now? He was more pure, for he was humbler.
George MacDonald
#4. Godfrey's wife Charmian sat with her eyes closed, attempting to put her thoughts into alphabetical order which Godfrey had told her was better than no order at all, since she now had grasp of neither logic nor chronology.
Muriel Spark
#5. 'I promise you calm seas,' " Sir Godfrey called, and raised his hands in benediction, " 'auspicious gales, and sail so expeditious that shall catch your royal fleet far off.'
Connie Willis
#6. If Roman Godfrey was a riddle, Shelley was the epic fornication of mystery and enigma
Brian McGreevy
#7. I played with Arthur Godfrey for about a year and a half.
Patsy Cline
#8. I had simply been inspired by Arthur Godfrey (40's) and Ukulele Ike and Cliff Edwards (20's). In there day, they were huge in this country. I bought Godfrey's book "You Too Can Learn To Play Ukulele" and taught myself. It's a very romantic instrument. You can take it on a canoe.
Tiny Tim
#9. Much as I disliked the un-American idea of marrying a lady with a dowry, I must admit that little Mrs. Godfrey's little private income put everything in a faintly different light.
Preston Sturges
#10. What the fuck are you laughing at, Godfrey?" Johnson moved away from Day.
"You, daddy's boy."
"Fuck you. I know Day is just showing off for you." Johnson turned back to look at Day. "I'll be sure to catch you when you're alone."
"I'll be sure to have my rape whistle," Day retorted.
A.E. Via
#11. Shakespeare put no children in his plays for a reason," Sir Godfrey muttered, glaring at Alf and Binnie.
"You're forgetting the Little Prince," Polly reminded him.
"Who he had the good sense to kill off in the second act," snapped Sir Godfrey.
Connie Willis
#12. I should be glad to see a good change in anybody, Mr. Godfrey.' she answered, with the slightest discernible difference of tone, 'but it 'ud be better if no change was wanted.
George Eliot
#13. Godfrey Bertram of Ellangowan succeeded to a long pedigree and a short rent-roll, like many lairds of that period.
Walter Scott
#14. Gleason became like a mentor of mine. I had Gleason helping me on television, Godfrey on radio.
Larry King
#15. The modern mind is hard to please; and it generally calls the way of Godfrey ferocious and the way of Francis fanatical. That is, it calls any moral method unpractical, when it has just called any practical method immoral.
G.K. Chesterton
#16. Perhaps that's how I should think of them, Polly thought, the troupe and Miss Snelgrove and Trot. And Sir Godfrey. Not as lost to her, but as removed to this moment in time for safekeeping.
Connie Willis
#17. Day was excited, nervous, scared, terrified even, that he was about to have Detective Cashel Godfrey laid out, stark naked in his bed and ready for the taking. He'd pictured it a million times in the last four years.
A.E. Via
#18. You can see from his form, posture, and the lazy way he carries his muscled body, that behind the mask is a man who sees more pussy than a pack of Tampax. Godfrey
L.J. Shen
#19. I doubt if many of my contemporaries, especially the older ones, did many exercises. I have often tried to picture (Godfrey) Evans and (Denis) Compton doing press-ups in the out field before the days play, but so far have failed miserably.
Peter May
#20. You look at William Powell in My Man Godfrey and he's a butler in that and he's very dapper. He's a very refined gentleman. I liked playing around with that, with the good posture and a style, a panache, and a way of moving about the room.
Evan Peters
#21. I was always telling everyone, I want to be a broadcaster. They'd say, What, are you crazy? What, you're going to be Arthur Godfrey?
Larry King
#22. I'm proud to pay taxes in the United States; the only thing is, I could be just as proud for half the money.
Arthur Godfrey
#23. Beauty intoxicates the eye, as wine does the body; both are morally fatal if indulged.
John Godfrey Saxe
#24. I think it's the tragedy of our time that we're not aware of the affect of the manner in which we've adopted tools. Those tools have become who we are.
Godfrey Reggio
#25. You've got to keep moving, keep creating.
Godfrey
#26. But the problem with me was that as soon as I started thinking about getting it together, I got this mad craving desire to fuck it up.
Rebecca Godfrey
#27. Customs is punishment for those who travel. This will teach you for traveling to our country!
Godfrey
#28. To be a good fighter pilot, there is one prime requisite think fast, and act faster.
John Trevor Godfrey
#29. No self-respecting small businessman with a brain in the right place would ever employ a lady of child-bearing age.
Godfrey Bloom
#33. Want to shut a racist white guy's mouth. Put him around Super human athletic black dudes.
Godfrey
#34. I explained to the lady my love for John and his work, and she made it possible for me to purchase one of the 24 proofs, the one for 'I'm So Tired,' which I have on my piano at home.
Arthur Godfrey
#35. Tis well to borrow from the good and the great; 'Tis wise to learn: 'tis God-like to create!
John Godfrey Saxe
#36. If all the world must see the world
As the world the world hath seen,
Then it were better for the world
That the world have never been.
Charles Godfrey Leland
#37. I think that sometimes I've been a little too nice. I think you have to have a balance. When you're too nice people take you for granted, they take you for a fool I think.
Godfrey
#38. But blast the man, with curses loud and deep, Whate'er the rascal's name, or age, or station, Who first invented, and went round advising, That artificial cut-off, Early Rising!
John Godfrey Saxe
#39. You know, the energy I think I was just born with. I think I was just always like that as I kid; I was always real energetic.
Godfrey
#40. Broken locks and bruised knees and borrowed lipgloss and rain on the streets
Rebecca Godfrey
#41. Time fleeth on,
Youth soon is gone,
Naught earthly may abide;
Life seemeth fast,
But may not last
It runs as runs the time.
Charles Godfrey Leland
#42. I asked of Echo 't other day (Whose words are few and often funny), What to a novice she could say Of courtship, love, and matrimony. Quoth Echo, plainly, Matter-o'-money.
John Godfrey Saxe
#43. In fact all country music - with its wailing hearts, tearful angst, and neatly trimmed facial hair - is a little too gay for its own good.
Wallace Godfrey
#44. If Prometheus was worthy of the wrath of heaven for kindling the first fire upon earth, how ought all the gods honor the men who make it their professional business to put it out?
John Godfrey Saxe
#45. Looking back on my achievements, it is fair to say that I am extremely proud of what I have done and accomplished so far.
Arthur Godfrey
#46. I was always the class clown, although many teachers view the class clown as a trouble maker. But I always had good grades, so the only thing my parents were told was that while I was intelligent, I talked too much.
Godfrey
#47. Technology has become as ubiquitous as the air we breathe, so we are no longer conscious of its presence.
Godfrey Reggio
#49. Up rose the wild old winter-king, And shook his beard of snow; I hear the first young hard-bell ring, 'Tis time for me to go! Northward o'er the icy rocks, Northward o'er the sea, My daughter comes with sunny locks: This land's too warm for me!
Charles Godfrey Leland
#50. If Mandela were a comedian, I bet he would never get mad at a heckler, he'd give him or her a hug.
Godfrey
#51. I think it's naive to pray for world peace if we're not going to change the form in which we live.
Godfrey Reggio
#52. When Nature gives a gorgeous rose, Or yields the simplest fern, She writes this motto on the leaves, "To whom it may concern!" And so it is the poet comes And revels in her bowers, And, though another hold the land, Is owner of the flowers.
John Godfrey Saxe
#53. At Learning's fountain it is sweet to drink,
But 'tis a nobler privilege to think.
John Godfrey Saxe
#54. To Paradise, the Arabs say, Satan could never find the way Until the peacock led him in.
Charles Godfrey Leland
#55. I've read Flowers in the Attic and The Other Side of Midnight and Go Ask Alice and I don't want to read any more books where the girl dies in the end.
Rebecca Godfrey
#57. In Asia, it is very hectic - there is no overtime, no holidays, no weekends. It's pretty rushed because they are trying to cut the deadline.
Godfrey Gao
#59. Mystery is gone to the certainty of technological principles. So the real terror, the real aggression against life comes in the form of the pursuit of our technological happiness.
Godfrey Reggio
#60. So oft in theologic wars, The disputants, I ween, Rail on in utter ignorance Of what each other mean, And prate about an Elephant Not one of them has seen!
John Godfrey Saxe
#61. Say, what is life? 'Tis to be born,
A helpless Babe, to greet the light
With a sharp wail, as if the morn
Foretold a cloudy noon and night;
To weep, to sleep, and weep again,
With sunny smiles between; and then?
John Godfrey Saxe
#64. The one thing you don't want to be is a sucky clean comic. I hate sucky clean comics! It's like Christian rock, bro. I'd rather listen to gospel and Christian rock. That's cheating!
Godfrey
#65. The language of the moment or, as it were, the language of the order in which we live, is the image. I felt that if I wanted to commune with the public, I should best do so through the language of image. It's a conscious embrace of a contradiction.
Godfrey Reggio
#66. Give me kisses! Nay, 'tis true
I am just as rich as you;
And for every kiss I owe,
I can pay you back, you know.
Kiss me, then,
Every moment, and again.
John Godfrey Saxe
#67. All work and no play doesn't just make Jill and Jack dull, it kills the potential of discovery, mastery, and openness to change and flexibility and it hinders innovation and invention.
Joline Godfrey
#68. Music expresses both in lyrics and in tune something of the orientation of the composer and author as to what the truth of religion is and how we ought to practice it
Robert Godfrey
#70. Voices that say the age of the church is over are voices who haven't listened to Jesus.
Robert Godfrey
#71. The wise may find in trifles light as atoms in the air, some useful lesson to enrich the mind.
John Godfrey Saxe
#72. I am not a model the camera just went off by itself
Godfrey
#73. I like the lad who, when his father thought To clip his morning nap by hackneyed phrase Of vagrant worm by early songster caught, Cried, Served him right! it's not at all surprising; The worm was punished, sir, for early rising!
John Godfrey Saxe
#74. But some people want attention so bad they want you to see them angry at you.
Godfrey
#75. The X-Games - I watch that; I'm not impressed. That's white dudes' desperation. They're running out of sports. They gotta find something that black dudes won't touch.
Godfrey
#76. God bless the man who first invented sleep! So Sancho Panza said and so say I; And bless him, also, that he didn't keep His great discovery to himself, nor try To make it, as the lucky fellow might A close monopoly by patent-right.
John Godfrey Saxe
#77. I want to be able to go into a room of aliens and be funny. I don't care who it is. I don't ever want to limit myself to a type of comedy because I don't want to be stuck. I want to be able to make anybody laugh and that's the key for me.
Godfrey
#78. A drawing, brought by Colonel Coombs, from a sculptured column in a cave-temple in the South of India, represents the first pair at the foot of the ambrosial tree, and a serpent entwined among the heavily-laden boughs, presenting to them some of the fruit from his mouth.
Godfrey Higgins
#79. Even if you get a joke right you've done it a thousand times and sometimes there's times where it just doesn't work or someone doesn't agree with you. And I want to show that. I have had more hecklers because that's part of comedy is arguments, you know?
Godfrey
#80. As a kid, I was always the jokester. I was telling stories at dinner and trying to make people laugh. I guess I've always just been naturally inclined to tell stories.
Wyck Godfrey
#82. The biggest deal for me was that all 24 winners are placed on the Billboard CD of the Year, which went out to 500 of the biggest Music Reps in the business, from radio and press to management and booking.
Arthur Godfrey
#83. In a world full of audio visual marvels, may words matter to you and be full of magic.
Peter Godfrey-Smith
#84. While we got hotter and thirstier as the heat beat down on us. The somebody would call in a voice full of elation
Arthur Godfrey
#85. I don't know why, but whenever I'd look at Amber, all determined and long-legged, I'd imagine her climbing out of a car wreck while the slow, sluggish passengers burned inside.
Rebecca Godfrey
#86. As corny as it may sound, my true goal was to crack the Americana market.
Arthur Godfrey
#87. No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed.
Godfrey Winn
#88. Littlewood, on Hardy's own estimate, is the finest mathematician he has ever known. He was the man most likely to storm and smash a really deep and formidable problem; there was no one else who could command such a combination of insight, technique and power.
Henry Hallett Dale
#89. The only thing I can do is type. I learned that when I was 13.
Godfrey Reggio
#90. What I'm trying to do is to at least raise a flag to the blinding light of technology.
Godfrey Reggio
#91. You know, it sounds corny, but I believe in myself. And I work hard.
Arthur Godfrey
#92. Old Care has a mortgage on every estate, And that's what you pay for the wealth that you get.
John Godfrey Saxe
#94. A church that won't listen to the Word of God is a church already lost.
Robert Godfrey
#95. Young men! it 's a critical thing to go Exactly right with a lady in tow; But when you are in the proper track, Just go ahead, and never look back!
John Godfrey Saxe
#96. I'd just hit the Billboard thing, and I had a good feeling. About a month ago, I received a call that said I was in the running, that I'd made the final 25. So I just wanted to place.
Arthur Godfrey
#97. Hey man! I'm a comedian but I'm not a clown.
Godfrey
#98. But, as old Swedish legends say, Of all the birds upon that day, The swallow felt the deepest grief, And longed to give her Lord relief, And chirped when any near would come. Hugswala swala swal honom! Meaning, as they who tell it deem, Oh, cool, oh, cool and comfort Him!
Charles Godfrey Leland
#99. Calvin argues that a sense of the divine is planted by God in human nature and cannot be escaped.
W. Robert Godfrey
#100. I know how I like to be treated, so I always start by saying, 'Could you give me a moment of your time, I know you're very busy,' and usually, they will.
Arthur Godfrey
