David Letterman Famous Quotes



"USA Today has come out with a new survey - apparently, three out of every four people make up 75 of the population."

Everyone has a purpose in life. Perhaps yours is watching television.

Traffic signals in New York are just rough guidelines.

"There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting."

New York now leads the world's great cities in the number of people around whom you shouldn't make a sudden move.

"Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees."

I'm just trying to make a smudge on the collective unconscious.

Sometimes when you look in his eyes you get the feeling that someone else is driving.


David Letterman Quotations






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"The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it."
Albert Einstein

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
Henry David Thoreau

"My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life."
Lee Iacocca

Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns. I am thankful that thorns have roses.
Alphonse Karr

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
George Bernard Shaw

"Thou art a cat, and a rat, and a coward."
Miguel de Cervantes

"You cannot go around and keep score. If you keep score on the good things and the bad things, you'll find out that you're a very miserable person. God gave man the ability to forget, which is one of the greatest attributes you have. Because if you remember everything that's happened to you, you generally remember that which is the most unfortunate."
Hubert Humphrey

"Fear is, I believe, a most effective tool in destroying the soul of an individual--and the soul of a people."
Bertrand Russell

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
Sir Winston Churchill

"I know some good marriages -- marriages where both people are just trying to get through their days by helping each other, being good to each other."
Erica Jong