On Hope Quotes

I know how to write stories that are accessible to younger readers, and sophisticated enough for older ones. I'm not a big fan of the all ages label, but I keep a wider audience in mind.

We're on our way to the Persian Gulf. Wait! It's a mistake! I thought they said Persian Golf.

Someone did us all a grave injustice by implying that mourning has a distinct beginning, middle, and end.

I'd give up golf if I didn't have so many sweaters.

I don't bother to look for parking space anymore. As soon as I get near Hollywood Boulevard ... I sell.

I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation.

It's not hard to find Gerry Ford on a golf course - you just follow the wounded.

They'll always be an England, even if it's in Hollywood.

Congress may be going home for the holidays soon. How can you beat a Christmas gift like that?

It gave dirty politics a bad name.

The big difference in those days was that in England the Government subsidized TV, in America we work on TV so we can subsidize the Government.

I can't understand what's holding up our missile program. It's the first time the government ever had trouble making the taxpayers' money go up in smoke.

I was lucky I wasn't a better boxer, or that's what I'd be now - a punchy ex-pug.

There's a very apt saying in show business: "If you don't go over budget in Paris, you're either very rich or very sick. "

Somehow love gives even to a dull man the knowledge of his lover's heart.

There's nothing I love more than a good cry.

I may not understand, but I am willing to admire.

For the first time, you can actually see the losers turn green

A nation that can't control its energy sources can't control its future.

Imperfections don’t make something ugly.

As long as there are ways we can serve, then we have a job to do.

Home is anywhere that you know all your friends and all your enemies.

For my part, if a man must needs be a knave I would have him a debonair knave... It makes your sin no worse as I conceive, to do it à la mode and stylishly.

All Christian language about the future is a set of signposts pointing into a mist.

I have this terrific make-up man. But he's expensive. I have to bring him in from Lourdes.

Impossible, that blind the mind, and looked out into the unknown.

Milton Hope led the singing of Happy Birthday ... He would say, 'Keep it sweet and short and don't try to be funny.'

Swing is so much more than a dance, it's a way of life. The music gets stuck in your mind and the dance is in your heart and the whole scene is engraved on your soul. You can fly.

US President Gerald Ford's golf was so bad we thought he was a 'Hitman for the PGA!

Ronald Reagan is not a typical politician because he doesn't know how to lie, cheat, and steal. He's always had an agent for that.

America is a country where the Olympics and the divorce lawyers both have the same slogan - Go for the Gold.

My family doesn't do happy endings. We do sad endings or frustrating endings or no endings at all. We are hardwired to expect the next interruption or disappearance or broken promise.

Every Naval vessel has a contingent of Marines aboard. After all, the Sailors have to have someone to dance with.

Democrats have an answer to the unemployment problem. They're all running for the Presidency.

Everybody should be affected by their own realities in their own lives, their own struggles in their own lives. It makes us who we are, and we all know that.

I see the Beatles have arrived from England. They were 40 pounds overweight - and that was just their hair.

My passion is writing comics and storytelling, and I'm constantly working to improve. I hit my deadlines, I know how to work with and artists, I'm professional, and I bring my A-game every time.

Sure, we did need the oil in America. How else could Dolly Parton get into some of her dresses?

In order to play some sports there's quite a big cost implication, whereas football is relatively cheap. All you need is a ball and a couple of jumpers to practise.

I once showed Pat Bradley my swing and said, 'What do I do next?' Pat replied, 'Wait till the pain dies down.'

People didn't put pressure on me. I just played for the love of the game.

It was a typically British birth... I was three at the time. They had a strike in the maternity ward... I came out in sympathy.

I feel like I'm one of the happiest people I know.

Personally, I never drink on Oscar nights, as it interferes with my suffering.

Kissing is like drinking tea with a tea strainer, you can never get enough.

Our mothers are our most direct connection to our history and gender.

Happiness is always there. You just have to choose to see it. There's no point dwelling in the dark and ignoring the light of the stars.

Man, made after God's image, was a nobler creation than twinkling sparks in the sky, or than the larger and more useful lamp of the moon.

Did you see where President Reagan finally got a hearing aid? People have been telling him to get one for years, but he couldn't hear them.

I've been playing the game so long that my handicap is in Roman numerals.