Phyllis Diller Quotes

My recipe for dealing with anger and frustration: set the kitchen timer for twenty minutes, cry, rant, and rave, and at the sound of the bell, simmer down and go about business as usual.

Phyllis Diller

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: comedian
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 17, 1917 - August 20, 2012

Topics

BusinessAngerKitchenFrustration

As humans with egos and feelings, none of us wants to be pilloried. But as thinkers and writers, it's our job to express opinions forthrightly and without qualifying them out of existence.

Meghan Daum

JobOpinionsFeelingsExistenceOut

I wanted to be a painter.

Max Cannon

PainterWanted

His name, even, is part of the marketing scheme, I mean, Thelonious Sphere Monk - how can you think of a better name to fit his style of playing?

Matthew Shipp

StyleThinkNameBetterYouMean

I feel, as an adult, I'm very similar to how I was as a pre-teen. Maybe it's a case of arrested development, but I feel like it's easy to slip back into those shoes, and I feel like if we were all magically transported back to our middle school years, we'd all act like we did in middle school.

Jeff Kinney

ShoesSchoolFeelEasyBackMiddle

The verb is relatively of much greater importance in an Indian tongue than in a civilized language.

John Wesley Powell

LanguageTongueGreaterThanMuch

Liberals want to amend our country's history to eradicate the role of Christianity in America and chisel references to God or faith from our historical buildings.

Steve King

GodFaithHistoryAmericaBuildings

I'd rather be Vincent Price than a red-neck character actor. You can't predict what will happen.

Robert Englund

CharacterYouPriceActorPredict

What they're doing is, they're making the decisions for us. That's what this country is coming down to. They're going to make the decisions for us.

Michael Schiavo

DecisionsDoingDownCountryComing

Most beautiful dumb girls think they are smart and get away with it, because other people, on the whole, aren't much smarter.

Louise Brooks

BeautifulSmartPeopleThinkDumb

When I was younger, I was one of the few girls in the neighborhood who could break dance. That's kind of my local, ghetto-celebrity claim to fame.

Joy Bryant

DanceFameKindBreakNeighborhood

If I'm seeing you, you're going to influence me. I'm sorry - I'm just that way. I'm a big sponge. You can't copyright an aesthetic.

Douglas Carter Beane

MeInfluenceSorryAestheticYou

When I first came out, holidays were hard. I reached a point where I didn't go home anymore. I constructed my own, kind of like, family group around Christmas.

Dee Rees

FamilyHomeHolidaysGroupChristmas

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