Earl Long quotes

Earl Long quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Don't write anything you can phone. Don't phone anything you can talk. Don't talk anything you can whisper. Don't whisper anything you can smile. Don't smile anything you can nod. Don't nod anything you can wink.”
-- Earl Long

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“A four-hundred-dollar suit on him would look like socks on a rooster.”
-- Earl Long

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“I can make them voting machines sing Home Sweet Home.”
-- Earl Long

#Sweet Quotes #Home Quotes #Voting Quotes
“The kind of thing I'm good at is knowing every politician in the state and remembering where he itches. And I know where to scratch him.”
-- Earl Long

#Knowing Quotes #Scratches Quotes #Kind Quotes
“But I'm in favor of every religion with the possible exception of snake-chunking. Anybody that so presumes on how he stands with Providence that he will let a snake bite him, I say he deserves what he's got coming to him.”
-- Earl Long

#Snakes Quotes #Favors Quotes #Providence Quotes

“Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want. If God gave you the talent, you should go for it. But don't think it's going to be easy. It's hard!”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The only happy people I know are the ones who are working well at something they consider important.”

Source : Abraham H. Maslow, Deborah C. Stephens (2000). “The Maslow Business Reader”, p.12, John Wiley & Sons
“Right now, I'm following the Buddhist principle: Smile as abuse is hurled your way and this too shall pass.”
“If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.”
“It was a time when only the dead smiled, happy in their peace.”

Source : Anna Andreevna Akhmatova (1989). “Selected Poems”, Dufour Editions
“Remember even though the outside world might be raining, if you keep on smiling the sun will soon show its face and smile back at you.”
“During 'Saturday Night Fever' at the end of the first act dance number I tried to perform a split-jump, only I can't do them so I ended up on my ***** followed by the most unsightly backward roll out of it, followed by the cast falling over in laughter and a good portion of the audience too.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.”
“In the midst of the sense of tragedy or loss, sometimes laughter is not only healing, it's a way of experiencing the person that you've lost again.”
“Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising. Thereâ€™s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the â€œAha.â€ Art also has this element. Our job is to remind us that there are more contexts than the one that weâ€™re in â€” the one that we think is reality.”

Source : "Big talk with the creator of Smalltalk - and much more". Interview with Stuart Feldman, queue.acm.org. December 27, 2004.

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