Laurel Quotes - page 2

It was absolutely thrilling to meet Laurel and Hardy, they were so nice. (Norman Wisdom)
I grew up wanting only to be an illustrator. I studied art at Laurel School in Cleveland and at Smith College. View quote
Natalie Babbitt
Grover cradeled his laurel sapling in his hands. "Well... sure is good to be back together again. Arguing. Almost dying. Abject terror. Oh, look It's our floor. View quote
Rick Riordan
One day in '61, I was looking in the Santa Monica phone book for a number, and there it was: Stan Laurel, Ocean Avenue in Santa Monica. I went over there and spent the afternoon with them. And pumped him with questions. I must have driven him crazy. I spent a lot of happy hours at Stan's house on Sundays just talking about comedy. View quote
Dick Van Dyke
I was a 'Laurel and Hardy' nut. I got to know Laurel at the end of his life, and it was a great thrill for me. He left me his bow tie and derby and told me that if they ever made a movie about him, he'd want me to play him. View quote
Dick Van Dyke
When I get some budding young comic who'll come up to me and say, 'What was it like to do it in those days?' I try to be as gracious to him as Stan Laurel was to me. View quote
Dick Van Dyke
When I was a kid, I loved all the silent comedians - Buster Keaton, Laurel and Hardy, Chaplin. And I used to imitate them. I'd go to see a Buster Keaton movie and come home and try things out I'd seen. I learned to do pratfalls when I was very young. View quote
Dick Van Dyke
I wanted to be Stan Laurel, then I wanted to be Fred Astaire and then Captain Kangaroo. I actually started out as a radio announcer when I was 17 and never left the business, so that's literally 70 years. View quote
Dick Van Dyke
Before 'Wings' came out, I told a few people that at the end of book one, readers should think Laurel made the right choice. Then, at the end of 'Spells,' they should understand why Laurel made the choice she did. View quote
Aprilynne Pike
Lord, oh Lord, will I return to you once, being a genuine artist. Will all those Art lovers once behold my works with reverence and the laurel of Art then adorn my head... I experience so ardently all the beauty of my noble career... And once again I call to you, it would be much better not to live at all than being disappointed in my feeling. View quote
Jozef Israëls
When you make 'The Daily Show', it's usually not for a laurel, it's for a dart. (Brian Williams)
When I was a kid, I used to watch 'Laurel and Hardy' with my cousins all the time. I still think they're extremely funny and so surreal. View quote
David Chase
I live up Laurel Canyon, and if I want to walk with my son, I have to drive to the park, which is so insane to me. View quote
James Gray
In Pennsylvania, I love the Nemacolin Woodlands Resort in Farmington. It's a scenic area. We also enjoy visiting the Laurel Highlands in Western Pennsylvania. The mountains are really something to be seen, and it's a great area to be outside. View quote
Troy Polamalu
Oh ye! who all life's energies combine The fadeless laurel round your brows to twine, Pause but one moment in your brief career, Nor seek for glory in a mortal sphere. View quote
Susanna Moodie
Let arms give place to the robe, and the laurel of the warriors yield to the tongue of the orator. View quote
Cicero
I was raised with "Laurel and Hardy" and "I Love Lucy" and Jerry Lewis, and I just loved it. And I had a friend in high school and we would just laugh all day and put on skits. You know, it's the Andy Kaufman thing or the Marty Short thing where you're performing in your bedroom for yourself. View quote
Steve Martin
Lonely by the moonlit waters Does the conqueror stand, Yet unredden'd by the slaughters Of his mighty band. Yet his laurel wants a leaf. There he stands, sad, silent, lonely; For his hope is vain : He has reached that river only To return again. View quote
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
LAUREATE, adj. Crowned with leaves of the laurel. In England the Poet Laureate is an officer of the sovereign's court, acting as dancing skeleton at every royal feast and singing-mute at every royal funeral. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong. View quote
Oscar Wilde
When the warrior returns, from the battle afar,To the home and the country he nobly defended,O! warm be the welcome to gladden his ear,And loud be the joy that his perils are ended:In the full tide of song let his fame roll along,To the feast-flowing board let us gratefully throng,Where, mixed with the olive, the laurel shall wave,And form a bright wreath for the brows of the brave. (Francis Scott Key)
The laurelled exiles, kneeling to kiss these sands. Number there freedom's friends. View quote
Stephen Spender
What forests of laurel we bring, and the tears of mankind, to those who stood firm against the opinion of their contemporaries. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
These in the robings of glory, Those in the gloom of defeat, All with the battle-blood gory, In the dusk of eternity meet;- Under the sod and the dew, Waiting the judgment-day;- Under the laurel the Blue, Under the willow, the Gray. View quote
Francis Miles Finch
As we remember Abbott and Costello, As Laurel and Hardy can never die, Rowan and Martin will not be forgotten, But baby, we sure gonna try. View quote
Nipsey Russell