Home
Topics
Authors
:
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z

Jerry Lewis Quotes

I've raised my boys the old-fashioned way, with spankings, sending them upstairs if they misbehave at parties, the works. I believe discipline is the proof of love.

Jerry Lewis

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: comedian
Nationality: american
Birth: March 16, 1926

Topics

Love Discipline Believe Way Proof

Dad would always play Ray Charles in the car on the way to swimming, then we'd sing musicals. Now my heroes are Janis Joplin and Bonnie Raitt and Max Richter.

Jessie Buckley

Car Swimming Play Now Way Heroes

The Internet has changed how young people listen to music. Television programs like 'American Idol' changed how people listen to music. It was no longer the songwriters that we celebrated; it was the singers.

Robert Hilburn

Music People Internet American Young

Factory farming, like comparable evils throughout history, depends for its existence upon concealment. It depends on people either not noticing or willfully averting their gaze.

Matthew Scully

History People Farming Existence

With 'Futurama,' I was just worried that somebody would beat us to it; it seemed so obvious that there should be an animated science fiction show set in the future. And one of the reasons why it's not, I learned, is that it's really, really difficult.

Matt Groening

Future Science Why Difficult Beat

I vividly remember my sixth-grade classroom. I remember what it smelled like, where I sat, what I could see out the window, and how I felt about things. Peel away my decrepit middle-aged exterior, and an important part of me is still twelve years old. It helps me when I sit down to write stories for kids.

Rodman Philbrick

Me Window Remember Down Important

I joined a campus competition, as I felt I could do comedy, and I won. Then I started doing standup gigs in 2009 while completing my law degree, but I never told my parents. They only discovered a few years later.

Ronny Chieng

Competition Parents Law Comedy Doing

The first thing you do when you get out to center field is put up your finger and check the wind chill factor.

Mickey Rivers

Wind Chill You First Out Up

When things don't go your way, you've got to keep trying to do the right things.

Dele Alli

Trying You Go Way Right Things

I'd been a stepparent for about two years with a woman who had a child, and I came to realize I adored children and was good with them. So I was very happy when Anna got pregnant.

David Thewlis

Good Children Woman Happy Child Two

I would like to say to children, 'Don't stop drawing. Don't tell yourself you can't draw.' Everyone can draw. If you make a mark on a page, you can draw.

Chris Riddell

Children Yourself Drawing You Stop

We could give 'Take That' a run for their money.

Brian Harvey

Money Run Take Give Could

The terrible thing about sunlight is it shows the dirt.

Brigid Berlin

Sunlight Dirt Terrible About Thing