{"id":3780,"date":"2015-02-07T12:20:07","date_gmt":"2015-02-07T10:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joke-archives.com\/?p=3780"},"modified":"2015-02-07T12:20:07","modified_gmt":"2015-02-07T10:20:07","slug":"famous-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/?p=3780","title":{"rendered":"Famous Words"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>&#8220;I have always found strangers sexy.&#8221;- Hugh Grant, six months before he was arrested with stranger Divine Brown.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;I would not wish to be Prime Minister, dear.&#8221;- Margaret Thatcher in 1973.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;That rainbow song&#8217;s no good. Take it out.&#8221;- MGM memo after first showing of The Wizard Of Oz.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;You&#8217;d better learn secretarial skills or else get married.&#8221;- Modelling agency, rejecting Marilyn Monroe in 1944.<\/li>\n<p><li>&#8220;Radio has no future.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;X-rays are clearly a hoax.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;The aeroplane is scientifically impossible.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8211; Royal Society president Lord Kelvin, 1897-9.<\/li>\n<\/p>\n<li>&#8220;You ought to go back to driving a truck.&#8221;- Concert manager, firing Elvis Presley in 1954.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Forget it. No Civil War picture ever made a nickel.&#8221;- MGM executive, advising against investing in Gone With The Wind.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Can&#8217;t act. Can&#8217;t sing. Slightly bald. Can dance a little.&#8221;- A film company&#8217;s verdict on Fred Astaire&#8217;s 1928 screen test.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Very interesting, Whittle, my boy, but it will never work.&#8221;- Professor of Aeronautical Engineering at Cambridge, shown Frank Whittle&#8217;s plan for the jet engine.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;There will be one million cases of AIDS in Britain by 1991.&#8221;- World Health Organization in a 1989 report. It over-estimated by 992,301 cases.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;The Beatles? They&#8217;re on the wane.&#8221;- The Duke of Edinburgh in Canada, 1965. They went on to produce a string of Number 1 hits.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;The atom bomb will never go off &#8211; and I speak as an expert in explosives.&#8221;- U.S. Admiral William Leahy in 1945.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;All saved from Titanic after collision.&#8221;- New York Evening Sun, April 15 1912.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Brain work will cause women to go bald.&#8221;- Berlin professor, 1914.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Television won&#8217;t matter in your lifetime or mine.&#8221;- Radio Times editor Rex Lambert, 1936.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Everything that can be invented has been invented.&#8221;- director of the US Patent Office, 1899.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;And for the tourist who really wants to get away from it all, safaris in Vietnam.&#8221;- Newsweek magazine, predicting popular holidays for the late 1960s.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I have always found strangers sexy.&#8221;- Hugh Grant, six months before he was arrested with stranger Divine Brown. &#8220;I would not wish to be Prime Minister, dear.&#8221;- Margaret Thatcher in 1973. &#8220;That rainbow song&#8217;s no good. Take it out.&#8221;- MGM memo after first showing of The Wizard Of Oz. &#8220;You&#8217;d better learn secretarial skills or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[1226],"class_list":["post-3780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts","tag-quotes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}