Famous quotes containing the words united, club, history and/or wait:
“In the United States there’s a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is good. In Latin countries, in Catholic countries, a successful person is a sinner.”
—Umberto Eco (b. 1932)
“Mi advise tu them who are about tu begin, in arnest, the jurney ov life, is tu take their harte in one hand and a club in the other.”
—Josh Billings [Henry Wheeler Shaw] (1818–1885)
“I am not a literary man.... I am a man of science, and I am interested in that branch of Anthropology which deals with the history of human speech.”
—J.A.H. (James Augustus Henry)
“Wait a minute, wait a minute, you ain’t heard nothing yet. Wait a minute I tell you. You ain’t heard nothing yet. Do you want to hear “Toot, Toot, Tootsie?””
—Alfread A. Cohen, U.S., and Louis Silver. Jakie Rabinowitz (Al Jolson)