Redd Foxx Quotes

I hate bugs.

There was no romance about the mosquitos, however.

I don't know why I ever come in here. The flies get the best of everything.

I wish that person outside would stop coughing.

How irritating it must be for people, to be bombarded with me!

You don't hate the mosquito; you just want it out of your face.

That was like swatting June bugs off a fly.

A horsefly can't do a horse much real damage, but it can drive it wild anyhow.

I'd just say the flies get bigger in the summertime. I guess the flies are buzzing.

Don't put a lump of rock under my elbow again!

Did he annoy me? Yes, he was like a wasp at a picnic.

May as well leave the door open.

The thorn in the cushion of the editorial chair.

The promotion of human rights cannot be about exhortation alone. At times, it must be coupled with painstaking diplomacy. I know that engagement with repressive regimes lacks the satisfying purity of indignation. But I also know that sanctions without outreach -- condemnation without discussion -- can carry forward only a crippling status quo. No repressive regime can move down a new path unless it has the choice of an open door.

Once a guy stood all day shaking bugs from his hair.

Would you please please please please please please please stop talking?

The spider is an animal who eats mosquitoes. That's why I love the spider - it is the only way we have to deal with these insects.

A few moments later Mom opened my door and peered in at me. "Logan Hansen is here to see you." If it had been anyone else in the world, I would have told my mother to send him away. Santa Claus himself could have shown up to explain his whereabouts since my childhood, and I would have turned him out.

I had an apartment and I had a neighbor, and whenever he would knock on my wall I knew he wanted me to turn my music down and that made me angry 'cause I like loud music... so when he knocked on the wall, I'd mess with his head. I'd say Go around I cannot open the wall I dunno if you have a door on your side but over here there's nothin'. It's just flat.

Stupid human voices always ruining everything.

I’m going to go out there and wait until you two are dressed. (Tiernan) Why don’t you keep walking until you get to the other side of the front door? (Adron)

Critics are like horse-flies which hinder the horses in their plowing of the soil. The horse works, all its muscles drawn tight like the strings on a double-bass, and a fly settles on his flanks and tickles and buzzes. And what does the fly buzz about? It scarcely knows itself; simply because it is restless and wants to proclaim: 'Look, I too am living on the earth. See, I can buzz, too, buzz about anything.'

Of all bores, the worst is the sparkling bore.

Dogs, dogs, go away, let me live another day.

I like the public hot-tub at the hotels. I like when a guy is already in there, I say, "Hey, do you mind if I join you?" Then I go turn the heat up, and I add some carrots and onions.