Quotes About Performance

Renaissance's Medallion Fund has reportedly averaged a yield of roughly 40 percent every year, through up and down markets,

I'll give up this sort of touring madness certainly, but music-everything is based on music. No, I'll never stop my music.

The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.

The human brain is a wonderful thing. It starts working the moment you are born, and never stops until you stand up to speak in public.

The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public.

A story given in Lillian Hellman's Scoundrel Time. While attending the funeral of Hollywood producer Harry Cohn with a large number of mourners a friend said to George Jessel - I never saw such a mob at a funeral. Jessel replied - Same old story: you give 'em what they want and they'll fill the theater.

Competition is the spice of sports but if you make spice the whole meal you'll be sick.

He flies through the air with the greatest of ease,This daring young man on the flying trapeze;His figure is handsome, all girls he can please,And my love he purloined her away!

You can only do what you're capable of at the time.

As Reagan gingerly sipped from the steaming mug he explained that for years he'd sipped on very hot water before major appearances because it relaxed his throat and lowered his voice a couple of octaves. "Frank Sinatra told me about it. He swore that it helped him get through many long performances.

Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.

But to abolish assessments, as many Just Americans want to do, and then declare that we've achieved "equity," ensures that all students receive exactly the same lousy education.

A male star named "T.T. Boy"....is a legend in the business [actor in commercial porn films]. T.T. Boy does not look at all glamorous - he's a small, tough-guy, assistant mobster type; sometimes he chews gum during his lovemaking scenes. He pounds his partners...Once memorably described as 'nothing more than a life-support system for his penis,' he got the kind of admiring, solid applause reserved for a large artillery piece going by in a parade.

Even the finest of jugglers cannot keep a hundred balls in the air forever.

I do so hope he plays us 'The Rains of Castamere.' It has been an hour. I've forgotten how it goes.

I have taught my Margaery what comely is worth, I hope. Less than a mummer's fart.

Every mummer needs a dancing bear.

Why use a spell, where mummer's tricks will serve?

Just because a man can sing about battles doesn't mean he's fit to fight one.

Satire is what closes Saturday night.

Do your damnedest in an ostentatious manner all the time.

Of all the songs I've recorded, 'Amarillo By Morning' always sticks out in my mind.

I loved making Pure Country. It was a great learning experience for me, seeing another part of the entertainment industry.

I don't mind traveling that much when I can go somewhere and stay there for a while, but touring is different. You rarely see anything. You get there early in the morning and you're resting all day, and you go in and do a sound check, and you do the show, and then bam you're gone.