Gleason

Famous quotes containing the word gleason:

    Conductor: What do you know about music?
    Eddie: Nothing I only wrote it, that’s all.
    Conductor: Then you have the best of me. You don’t have to listen to it.
    —James Gleason (1886–1959)

    Looks like some carnival lost a good act.
    —James Gleason (1886–1959)

    Haggerty: Girls! Girls! Girls! Be careful of my hats.
    Chorus Girl: Well, we gotta get down on the stage.
    Haggerty: I don’t care. I won’t allow you to ruin them.
    Dressing Room Matron: See, I told you. They were too high and too wide.
    Haggerty: Well, Big Woman, I designed the costumes for the show, not the doors for the theater.
    Dressing Room Matron: I know that. If you had, they’d have been done in lavender.
    —James Gleason (1886–1959)