My friend asked me if I wanted a frozen banana. I said 'No, but I want a regular banana later, so... yeah.'
Someone once asked, 'What's your best pickup line?' I said, 'My best pickup line is, 'Hi, my name is Hugh Hefner.'
I went to the bank and asked to borrow a cup of money. They said, 'What for?' I said, 'I'm going to buy some sugar.'
When I was crossing the border into Canada, they asked if I had any firearms with me. I said, 'Well, what do you need?'
There have been some medical schools in which somewhere along the assembly line, a faculty member has informed the students, not so much by what he said but by what he did, that there is an intimate relation between curing and caring.
Until the 20th century it was generally assumed that a writer had said what he had to say in his works.
I asked Fred Astaire once when he was about my age if he still danced, and he said 'Yes, but it hurts now.' That's exactly it. I can still dance, too, but it hurts now!
It's been said that astronomy is a humbling and, I might add, a character-building experience.
Any time skating was featured in a video game, I ate it up. So around 1997-98, I was shopping this video game idea. I was weighing my options when I went to Activision, but when I saw what they were working on, I said, 'This is exactly what I'd love to be involved with,' and following that gut reaction was hugely successful.
It was taken for granted that we had to make something of ourselves. Not much was said about it; it was just in the atmosphere of the home.
The prevailing ideology of the modern west - which is political economy - is in the doghouse. Having failed to notice atmospheric pollution, the economists then frightened themselves with the sort of financial crisis they said they had abolished.
Tom Cruise's attorney said he is going to sue anyone who claims he is gay. In a related story, Ricky Martin's attorney has been hospitalized for exhaustion.
In August 1961, I visited President Kennedy at Hyannis Port. The Berlin Wall was going up, and he was about to begin a huge military buildup - reluctantly, or so he said, as he puffed on a cigar liberated by a friend from Castro's Cuba.
When a Benefit is wrongly conferred, the author of the Benefit may often be said to injure.
What I've said repeatedly is, 'I think the auto industry is a very important industry.'
I've said it since the day he made the sacrifice to hit the campaign trail: Voters crave the anti-status-quo politician. Everything about Donald Trump's campaign, it's avant-garde. He is crushing it in the polls.
A Swedish newspaper reporter called and said, You've been awarded the Prize. I was quite sure it was a practical joke.
It is from Shiith Ibn Adam that all humankind today is said to descend. It is also said that Balkh, the 'Mother of All Cities' as the first Arabs called it, a city once greater than Babylon and lovelier than Nineveh, is where Shiith died and was buried.
I gave myself a year to be a supermodel. And I said, 'If it doesn't happen, I'm going back to school.'
Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.