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Elayne Boosler Quotes

I have six locks on my door all in a row. When I go out, I lock every other one. I figure no matter how long somebody stands there picking the locks, they are always locking three.

Elayne Boosler

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: comedian
Nationality: american
Birth: August 18, 1952

Topics

Funny Door Long Go Three Matter

I've enjoyed my time in the American League, the fans of Southern California and other friendships.

Joe Torre

Time American California Fans Other

I've failed a lot, you know, in football, and I've gone on a lot of auditions, been told no, been told I'm not right, so I know what failure feels like. It's about the work.

John David Washington

Work Failure Football You Know Gone

Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events.

John Drinkwater

Great Men Man Greatness Great Man

I should be pleased to see all the nations on the earth prosperous and happy and rich, for it would furnish to me the best evidence of the prosperity of my native land.

John Tyler

Best Happy Me Rich Earth Prosperity

I made four films on John F. Kennedy, filmed when he was running for office, in office, and after his death.

Robert Drew

Death Office Four Made Running He

I feel that is more important than my work, the influence I have on my students.

Ruth Bernhard

Work Influence Feel Important More

The oddest thing to me has been when people come up to me, and they don't say anything, and they just put their arms around me and hug and kiss me. They don't even say hello! They just freak out like they've seen a unicorn.

Chris March

Kiss People Me Hug Say Hello

At Juilliard, I couldn't afford to have fun. I went to school and stayed home.

Anthony Mackie

Home School Fun Have Fun Afford

The only thing that might have annoyed some mathematicians was the presumption of assuming that maybe the axiom of choice could fail, and that we should look into contrary assumptions.

Alonzo Church

Assumptions Look Choice Fail Annoyed

I have no idea if anyone is watching me from the Brazil national team, but the best way to have a chance is to do well for Liverpool.

Philippe Coutinho

Best Me Team Chance Way Watching

How delicious is pleasure after torment!

Pierre Corneille

Pleasure Delicious Torment How After

In agriculture, people have taken wild plants that can't be eaten by people - and turned them into wonderful food sources. And that's because genomes can change, and people working with plants have picked mutations. Mutations are nothing more than genetic changes.

Nina Fedoroff

Change Food People Plants Nothing