Fred Allen Quotes

The vice-president of an advertising agency is a bit of executive fungus that forms on a desk that has been exposed to conference.

Fred Allen

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: comedian
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: May 31, 1894 - March 17, 1956

Topics

AdvertisingDeskConferenceBeen

I love the show and a lot of what came out of it, like some of the people I met and got to work with, but those were truly some of the unhappiest days of my life.

Jhonen Vasquez

LifeWorkLovePeopleMy LifeOut

I would be good for maybe not the center square but an upper square on 'Hollywood Squares.'

John Hodgman

GoodHollywoodSquareCenterWould

My colleague Bill Keegan has written a very short book ('Saving the World?') on an unlikely topic - he is the first economist to try to rehabilitate Gordon Brown.

Simon Hoggart

WorldBookShortTryFirstBrown

I've come up through art school, through painting, through graphic design, through advertising, through TV commercials and music video. I've designed books, built billboards, matchbooks, corporate identities. I continuously paint, I've done conceptual art pictures.

Tony Kaye

MusicArtSchoolPaintingDesignUp

I have great respect for Oklahoma's tribal members, and I celebrate their traditions and culture.

Mary Fallin

RespectGreatCultureCelebrate

A lot of people are afraid to lie to me.

Mike Cernovich

LiePeopleMeAfraidLot

A high-speed connection is no more an essential civil right than 3G cell phone service or a Netflix account. Increasing competition and restoring academic excellence in abysmal public schools is far more of an imperative to minority children than handing them iPads.

Michelle Malkin

ChildrenServiceExcellencePhone

Let us reflect on the obvious but often neglected lesson that state-sanctioned discrimination never looks good in hindsight.

Loretta Lynch

GoodDiscriminationLessonLooksUs

I have a friend of mine who does me on his answering machine, and when I call him, I answer. It's pretty strange.

Christopher Walken

FriendMeStrangeHimPrettyAnswer

The Republic of Texas is no more.

Anson Jones

TexasMoreRepublic

And I tend to listen to NPR when I'm not writing.

Augusten Burroughs

WritingListenNPRTend

Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.

William Penn

TruthNothingMoreHeatRightOffer

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