quotes about famous people from famous people The Bee Gees: 'ESP' -- "Few people know that the CIA is planning to cripple Iran by playing this album on special loudspeakers secretly parachuted into the country." -'Record Mirror' (1988) Ludwig van Beethoven: "Beethoven's last quartets were written by a deaf man and should only be listened to by a deaf man." -Sir Thomas Beecham Jack Benny: "When they asked Jack Benny to do something for the Actor's Orphanage -- he shot both his parents and moved in." -Bob Hope George Bernard Shaw: "A freakish homunculus germinated outside of lawful procreation." -Henry Arthur Jones "Shaw's works make me admire the magnificent tolerance and broadmindedness of the english." -James Joyce "Shaw writes plays for the ages, the ages between five and twelve." -George Jean Nathan Jon Bon Jovi: "Bon Jovi sounds like bad fourth-generation metal, a smudgy Xerox of Quiet Riot." -Jimmy Guterman Boy George: "Boy George is all England needs -- another queen who can't dress." -Joan Rivers Marlon Brando: "Most of the time he sounds like he has a mouth full of toilet paper." -Rex Reed Lewis Carrol: 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' -- "We fancy that any real child might be more puzzled than enchanted by this stiff, overwrought story." -'Children's Books' (1865) Jimmy Carter: "He would cut the cards if he was playing poker with his mother." -Anon. Charlie Chaplin: "If pople don't sit at Chaplin's feet, he goes out and stands where they are sitting." -Herman J. Mankiewicz "When Chaplin found a voice to say what was on his mind, he was like a child of eight writing lyrics for Beethoven's Ninth." -Billy Wilder Eric Clapton: "If I go 'round to someone's house and there's an Eric Clapton record, I just walk out." -Jon Moss The Clash: "The sheets of sound they let loose have the cumulative effect of mugging." -'The London Times' (1979) John Cleese: "He emits an air of overwhelming vanity combined with some unspecific nastiness, like a black widow spider in heat. But nobody seems to notice. He could be reciting 'Fox's Book of Martyrs' in Finnish and these people would be rolling out of their seats." -Roger Gellert Bill Clinton: "I have never seen. . .so slippery, so disgusting a candidate." -Nat Hentoff "The prince of sleaze." -Jerry Brown +hundreds more... Calvin Coolidge: "Calvin Coolidge didn't say much, and when he did he didn't say much." -Will Rogers "Calvin Coolidge's perpetual expression was of smelling something burning on the stove." -Sherwin L. Cook Leonardo da Vinci: "Leonardo da Vinci did everything and did nothing very well." -Marie Bashkirtseef Salvador Dali: "The naked truth about me is to the naked truth of Salvador Dali as an old ukelele in the attic is to a piano in a tree, and I mean a piano with breasts." -James Thurber "Seņor Dali, born delirious, Considers it folly to be serious." -Phyllis McGinley Dante: "A hyena that wrote poetry in tombs." -Friedrich Nietzsche James Dean: "Another dirty shirttail actor from New York." -Hedda Hopper Claude Debussy: "Debussy played the piano with the lid down." -Robert Bresson John Denver: "I'm a John Denver freak, and I don't give a sh*t that he looks like a f***ing turkey." -Grace Slick Charles Dickens: "Of Dickens' style it is impossible to speak in praise. It is jerky, ungrammatical, and created by himself in defiance of rules... No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens." -Anthony Trollope Duran Duran: "A baroque art-rock bubblegum broadcast on a frequency understood only by female teenagers and bred field mice." -Mark Coleman Bob Dylan: "Actually, I never liked Dylan's kind of music before; I always thought he sounded just like Yogi Bear." -Mike Ronson Clint Eastwood: Commenting on Eastwood's bid for mayor of Carmel -- "What makes him think a middle aged actor, who's played with a chimp, could have a future in politics?" -Ronald Reagan Eiffel Tower: "The Empire State Building after taxes." -Anon. Dwight D. Eisenhower: "As an intellectual, he bestowed upon the games of golf and bridge all the enthusiasm and perseverence that he withheld from his books and ideas." -Emmet John Hughes Ralph Waldo Emerson: "Like most poets, preacher, and metaphysicians, he burst into conclusions at a spark of evidence." -Henry Seidel Canby F. Scott Fitzgerald: "Fitzgerald never got rid of anything; the ghosts of his adolescense, the failures of his youth, the doubts of his maturity plagued him to the end. He was supremely a part of the world he described, so much a part that he made himself its king and then, when he saw it begin to crumble, he crumbled with it and led it to death." -John Aldridge "Mr. Fitzgerald -- I believe that is how he spells his name -- seems to believe that plagiarism begins at home." -Zelda Fitzgerald Gerald Ford: "Gerald Ford was unknown throughout America. Now he's unknown throughout the world." -Anon. "In the Bob Hope Golf Classic, the participation of President Gerald Ford was more than enough to remind you that the nuclear button was at one stage at the disposal of a man who might have either pressed it by mistake or else pressed it deliberately in order to obtain room service." -Clive James Benjamin Franklin: "A crafty and lecherous old hipocrite whose very statue seems to gloat on the wenches as they walk the States House Yard." -William Cobbett Robert Frost: "If it were thought that anything I wrote was influenced by Robert Frost, I would take that particular piece of mine, shred it, and flush it down the toilet, hoping not to clog the pipes." -James Dickey Zsa Zsa Gabor: "She has discovered the secret of perpetual middle age." -Oscar Levant Art Garfunkel: "He makes Paul Simon look like LL Cool J." -Ian Gittins George Frederick Handel: "A tub of pork and beer." -Hector Berlioz "Handel is only fourth rate. He is not even interesting." -Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky Hanson: "And another thing -- Hanson blows." -Donald Trump Joseph Heller: 'Catch 22' -- Heller wallows in his own laughter and finally drowns in it. What remains is a debris of sour jokes, stage anger, dirty words, synthetic looniness, and the sort of antic behavior the children fall into when they know they are losing our attention." -Whitney Balliett Ernest Hemmingway: "A literary style of wearing false hair on the chest." -Max Eastman "Always willing to lend a hand to the one above him." -F. Scott Fitzgerald Katharine Hepburn: "A cross between Donald Duck and a Stradivarius." -Anon.

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