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It's an awful thing to grow old by yourself. My wife hasn't had a birthday in seven years.
Quote by -Robert Orben
As much as we admire all the characteristics of a Ronald Reagan, as soon as something goes wrong, people will hate those same characteristics.
Quote by -Robert Orben
All that means is that something devastating can happen to you today or to your family & all you can do is cry about it or panic or just be grief-stricken about it; but a year or two from now or maybe ten years from now, or maybe two months or two days, you might be able to see the humor in that problem.
Quote by -Robert Orben
Thanks to modern medicine we are no longer forced to endure prolonged pain, disease, discomfort and wealth.
Quote by -Robert Orben
Noise pollution is a relative thing. In a city, it's a jet plane taking off. In a monastery, it's a pen that scratches.
Quote by -Robert Orben
Summit meetings tend to be like panda matings. The expectations are always high, and the results usually disappointing.
Quote by -Robert Orben
If you can get someone to laugh with you, they will be more willing to identify with you, listen to you. It parts the waters.
Quote by -Robert Orben
It may be the way the cookie crumbles on Madison Avenue, but in Hong Kong its the way the egg rolls.
Quote by -Robert Orben
Do you realize what would happen if Moses were alive today? He'd go up to Mount Sinai, come back with the Ten Commandments, and spend the next eight years trying to get published.
Quote by -Robert Orben
There are only two kinds of people in this world. The realists and the dreamers. The realists know where they are going and the dreamers have already been there.
Quote by -Robert Orben
It always seems to someone outside the business that it is very difficult to write for a comedy show because it must be done quickly. Actually, it is much easier to write this humor than to do a joke or a show from scratch, because the audience knows the plot. Just mention what is going on and then deliver the punch line.
Quote by -Robert Orben
When we laugh we temporarily give ourselves over to the person who makes us laugh.
Quote by -Robert Orben
Sociologists say that going to the movies is a bonding experience. It probably has to do with the way you feet stick to the floor.
Quote by -Robert Orben
Do you realize that in the past sixty years, the only foreigners the French have been able to drive out are American tourists?
Quote by -Robert Orben
I should warn you that underneath these clothes I'm wearing boxer shorts and I know how to use them.
Quote by -Robert Orben
Lincoln was known to have walked miles to borrow books, to get the most rudimentary form of education. So what do we do on his birthday? We close the schools!
Quote by -Robert Orben
I love to watch those old movies on late-night television, particularly when a couple get up from a champagne dinner in a posh restaurant and the hero hands the waiter $3. But the best part is when he says, "Keep the change."
Quote by -Robert Orben
They say kids today don't know the value of a dollar. They certainly do know the value of a dollar. That's why they ask for five.
Quote by -Robert Orben
Vacation: When you spend thousands of dollars to see what rain looks like in different parts of the world.
Quote by -Robert Orben
I'm beginning to wonder about my broker. Yesterday I told him to buy a hundred shares of A.T.&T. He said, 'Would you spell that?'
Quote by -Robert Orben
Sports like baseball, basketball, and hockey develop muscles. That's why Americans have the strongest eyes in the world.
Quote by -Robert Orben
For Father's Day, my kids always give me a bottle of cologne called English Leather. It's appropriate! To them I always smell like a wallet.
Quote by -Robert Orben
Did you ever get to wondering if taxation without representation might have been cheaper?
Quote by -Robert Orben
If somebody accuses you in a story of being a crook, you can demand that they prove it. But if a comic says it and you protest, people say, 'What's the matter, you can't take a joke?
Quote by -Robert Orben
My wife never lies about her age. She just tells everyone she's as old as I am. Then she lies about my age.
Quote by -Robert Orben
You wouldn't want Alan Greenspan to write the instructions for assembling a beach chair.
Quote by -Robert Orben
I'd be surprised if Ronald Reagan doesn't run again. To us it's a second term. To him it's a double feature.
Quote by -Robert Orben
Wall Street is where prophets tell us what will happen and profits tell us what did happen.
Quote by -Robert Orben
I always wondered why babies spend so much time sucking their thumbs. Then I tasted baby food.
Quote by -Robert Orben
The next time you feel like complaining, remember that your garbage disposal probably eats better than 30 percent of the people in the world
Quote by -Robert Orben
We have enough people who tell it like it is - now we could use a few who tell it like it can be.
Quote by -Robert Orben
"Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us."
Quote by -Alain de Botton
"One rarely falls in love without being as much attracted to what is interestingly wrong with someone as what is objectively healthy."
Quote by -Alain de Botton
"The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful than we expected them to be."
Quote by -Alain de Botton
"Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them."
Quote by -Alain de Botton