Fred Allen Frases famosas
A conference is a gathering of people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done
citado em "Kiplinger's Personal Finance" - Página 48, Revista - mai. 1962 - vol. 16, núm. 5, ISSN 1528-9729, Publicado por Kiplinger Washington Editors, Inc. - 48 páginas
“Se pudesse receber de volta a taxa de inscrição, eu pediria demissão da raça humana.”
If I could get my membership fee back, I'd resign from the human race
citado em "The Portable Curmudgeon" - Página 141, de Jon Winokur - Plume, 1992, ISBN 0452266688, 9780452266681 - 299 páginas
Fred Allen frases e citações
Variante: Uma celebridade é uma pessoa que trabalhou duro a vida inteira para se tornar conhecida e depois passa a usar óculos escuros para não ser conhecida.
Fred Allen: Frases em inglês
From a lost letter to Kenny Delmar quoted in Earl Wilson's syndicated column (May 1959).
“California's a wonderful place to live - if you happen to be an orange.”
Reported in Steven D. Price, 1001 Greatest Things Ever Said About California (2007), p. viii.
Treadmill to Oblivion http://books.google.com/books?id=8IC6ZSGPAAYC&q="A+molehill+man+is+a+pseudo+busy+executive+who+comes+to+work+at+9+am+and+finds+a+molehill+on+his+desk+He+has+until+5+pm+to+make+this+molehill+into+a+mountain+An+accomplished+molehill+man+will+often+have+his+mountain+finished+even+before+lunch"&pg=PA27#v=onepage (1954).
“A good comedian can say things funny and other guys just say funny things.”
Attributed by Robert Lemke in The Sunday Press (Binghamton, NY), “Rock ‘n Roll ‘Musically Horrid” Says Ex-2-a-Dayer,” pg. 2-C, col. 1 (9 August 1959)
“Sullivan will be successful as long as other people have talent.”
As quoted in Always On Sunday. Ed Sullivan: An Inside View (1968) by Michael David Harris; reproduced in "Sunday Marks Ed Sullivan's 20th Anniversary on TV," https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/82860831/ The San Antonio Express (June 16, 1968), p. 117
Much Ado About Me (1956).
“What does Sullivan do? He points at people. Rub meat on actors and dogs will do the same thing.”
As quoted in Always On Sunday. Ed Sullivan: An Inside View (1968)