Subject: Famous Words
From: Unicorn (unicorn@indenial.com)
Date: Sun May 07 2000 - 02:33:59 EDT
"I have always found strangers sexy." - Hugh
Grant, six months before he was arrested
with stranger Divine Brown.
"I would not wish to be Prime Minister, dear."
- Margaret Thatcher in 1973.
"That rainbow song's no good. Take it out." -
MGM memo after first showing of The Wizard
Of Oz.
"You'd better learn secretarial skills or else
get married." - Modelling agency, rejecting
Marilyn Monroe in 1944.
"Radio has no future." "X-rays are clearly a hoax."
"The aeroplane is scientifically impossible."
- Royal Society president Lord Kelvin, 1897-9.
"You ought to go back to driving a truck." -
Concert manager, firing Elvis Presley in 1954.
"Forget it. No Civil War picture ever made a
nickel." - MGM executive, advising against
investing in Gone With The Wind.
"Can't act. Can't sing. Slightly bald. Can
dance a little." - A film company's verdict
on Fred Astaire's 1928 screen test.
"Very interesting, Whittle, my boy, but it will
never work." - Professor of Aeronautical
Engineering at Cambridge, shown Frank
Whittle's plan for the jet engine.
"There will be one million cases of AIDS in
Britain by 1991." - World Health Organization
in a 1989 report. It over-estimated by 992,301
cases.
"The Beatles? They're on the wane." - The
Duke of Edinburgh in Canada, 1965. They
went on to produce a string of No 1s.
"The atom bomb will never go off - and I speak
as an expert in explosives." - U.S. Admiral
William Leahy in 1945.
"All saved from Titanic after collision." - New
York Evening Sun, April 15 1912.
"Brain work will cause women to go bald." -
Berlin professor, 1914.
"Television won't matter in your lifetime or mine."
- Radio Times editor Rex Lambert, 1936.
"Everything that can be invented has been
invented." - director of the US Patent Office,
1899.
"And for the tourist who really wants to get
away from it all, safaris in Vietnam." -
Newsweek magazine, predicting popular
holidays for the late 1960s.
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