47 Quotes by Allan Sherman

Teacher, teacher, I declare, I see your purple underwear.

Temples also take into consideration an ability to pay and, in a general sense, do not turn people away if there's a need,.

The whole city gives you the impression of impermanence. You have the feeling that one day someone is going to yell, "Cut! Strike it!" and then the stagehands will scurry out and remove the mountains, the movie-star homes, the Hollywood Bowl--everything.

A committee is a group of individuals who all put in a perfectly good color, and it comes out gray.

The head coach don't want no sissies, so he reads to us from something called Ulysses.

The only choreography I have in my act is where I walk about ten feet, from stage right to stage left. Then I say, "You may be wondering why I went from over there to over here. Well, that was choreography.

When the great history of horticulture is written I will be listed among the absent.

The whole city (Los Angeles) gives you the impression of impermanence. You have the feeling that one day someone is going to yell. "Cut! Strike it!" and then the stagehands will scurry out and remove the mountains, the movie-star homes, the Hollywood Bowl - everything.

At first I only used the Scotch to flavor the seltzer. Then I left out the seltzer altogether and only retained the ice cubes with the Scotch. Today, I am proud to say, I have emancipated myself from all such crutches. I drink my Scotch straight.