John Michael Hayes Quotes

• Frances Stevens: Mother, this is why I've had to spend half my life running around the world after youto keep men like this away from you. Mrs. Stevens: Well after this, let me run my own interference. It looks like the blockers are having all the fun.

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  Mother   Running   Fun  

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• Bourbon's the only drink. You can take all that champagne stuff and pour it down the English Channel. Well, why wait 80 years before you can drink the stuff? Great vineyards, huge barrels aging forever, poor little old monks running around testing it, just so some woman in Tulsa, Oklahoma can say it tickles her nose.

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  John Michael Hayes

  Running   Drinking   Years  

  1975

• Every time an ashtray is missing from a hotel, they don't come looking for you. But let a diamond bracelet disappear in France and they shout John Robie, the Cat. You don't have to spend every day of your life proving your honesty, but I do.

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  Honesty   Cat   Missing  

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• I wonder if it's ethical to watch a man with binoculars and a long-focus lens? D'ya suppose it's ethical even if you prove that he didn't commit a crime? I'm not much on rear window ethics.

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  Men   Long   Focus  

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• Weve become a race of Peeping Toms. What people oughta do is get outside their own house and look in for a change.

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  Race   People   House  

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• Where does a man get inspiration to write a song like that? Well, he gets it from the landlady once a month.

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  John Michael Hayes

  Song   Inspiration   Writing  

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