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Steve Allen Quotes

Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out checks, and the politicians and other compromised officials improve their bank balances.

Steve Allen

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: entertainer
Nationality: american
Birth: December 26, 1921 - October 30, 2000

Topics

Government Mafia Bank Out Improve

I started doing experiments - mostly in organic chemistry, because it was so much more interesting - in my mother's laundry at home.

John Cornforth

Mother Home Interesting Doing More

People have to find ways of explaining the work.

Andres Serrano

Work People Find Explaining Ways

As time goes by and you're getting older and stuff like that - getting older sucks. You know, I hear all this crap about, 'Oh, you can age with dignity.' Really?

Mickey Rourke

Age Time Getting Older You Dignity

To see your friend's dreams come true, there's really nothing that can make you happier.

Josh Hopkins

Friend Dreams You True Nothing See

I think, the 'Van Dyke Show' and 'Mary Poppins' are two of the best periods of my life. I had so much fun, I didn't want it to end.

Dick Van Dyke

Life Best Fun Think End My Life

One of the things I teach my children is that I have always invested in myself, and I have never stopped learning, never stopped growing.

Chesley Sullenberger

Learning Children Myself Growing

If we were in India now, there would be servants standing in the corners of this room and I wouldn't notice them. That is what my society is like, that is what the divide is like.

Aravind Adiga

Society India Now Room Standing

Bad conduct soils the finest ornament more than filth.

Plautus

Bad More Conduct Than Finest Filth

You know, ever since man had any notion that some of his other people, his colleagues, could be different, could be strange, could be severely depressed or what we now recognize as schizophrenia, he was certain that this kind of illness had to come from evil spirits getting into the body.

Sherwin B. Nuland

Man People Evil Colleagues You Body

Silence is more eloquent than words.

Thomas Carlyle

Words Silence More Than Eloquent

I don't belong to any social network, and I don't even message much. In fact, most of the time, I don't even use my mobile phone.

Nithya Menen

Time Phone Belong Social Mobile

I like life on the road. It's a lot easier than civilian life. You kind of feel like you're in a motorcycle gang.

Leonard Cohen

Life Motorcycle Road Feel You Kind