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" An income tax form is like a laundry list - either way you lose your shirt. "
Fred Allen
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" A gentleman is any man who wouldn't hit a woman with his hat on. "
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" Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great. "
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" Some movie stars wear their sunglasses even in church. They're afraid God might recognize them and ask for autographs. "
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" A committee is a group of people who individually can do nothing, but who, as a group, can meet and decide that nothing can be done. "
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" A telescope will magnify a star a thousand times, but a good press agent can do even better. "
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" Television is a medium because anything well done is rare. "
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" My uncle is a Southern planter. He's an undertaker in Alabama. "
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" I play a musical instrument a little, but only for my own amazement. "
Fred Allen
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" Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for stars. "
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Stars
Place
" California is a great place to live if you're an orange. "
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" Ed Sullivan will be around as long as someone else has talent. "
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" A committee is a group of the unprepared, appointed by the unwilling to do the unnecessary. "
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Group
Appointed
Committee
" My father never raised his hand to any one of his children, except in self-defense. "
Fred Allen
Never
Father
Children
" Committee - a group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done. "
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" Television is the triumph of machine over people. "
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Television
Triumph
" I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition back. "
Fred Allen
Back
Got
Day
" I have just returned from Boston. It is the only thing to do if you find yourself up there. "
Fred Allen
Up
You
Yourself
" All I know about humor is that I don't know anything about it. "
Fred Allen
Humor
Anything
About
" Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats; then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure. "
Fred Allen
Wild
Church
Failure
" The advertising world had space men in it before spacemen existed. "
Fred Allen
Advertising
Before
Space
" A conference is a gathering of people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done. "
Fred Allen
People
Decide
Done
" I always have trouble remembering three things: faces, names, and - I can't remember what the third thing is. "
Fred Allen
Remember
Three
Trouble
" An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission. "
Fred Allen
Agency
Business
Confusion
" What's on your mind, if you will allow the overstatement. "
Fred Allen
Your
Mind
Allow
" I don't want to own anything that won't fit into my coffin. "
Fred Allen
Want
Own
Coffin
" I'd rather have a full bottle in front of me than a full frontal lobotomy. "
Fred Allen
Full
Front
Bottle
" 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
Exposed
Advertising
Conference
" An associate producer is the only guy in Hollywood who will associate with a producer. "
Fred Allen
Will
Guy
Producer
" Radio is a bag of mediocrity where little men with carbon minds wallow in sluice of their own making. "
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Bag
Men
Mediocrity