Ed McMahon Quotations

There is no planning. On the night it is really great, it's euphoria and if it is not so great there is always tomorrow night. That was his attitude.

Honesty is the most single most important factor having a direct bearing on the final success of an individual, corporation, or product.

Golf courses sell real estate and that's why they're built.

All Americans need a sense of place. That's what makes our physical surroundings worth caring about.

There was a time... when people didn't go out of their house on Tuesday night at eight o'clock because Milton Berle was on.

Like Venice, Italy, New Orleans is a cultural treasure. And everyone who lived in the city should be allowed to come back. But that doesn't mean that they all should live in exactly the same spot that they lived before.

Johnny once described our relationship by saying we were as close as two people could be without being married.

You can grow without destroying the things that you love.

It's really kind of hard to be a suburb of nothing. If you don't have a downtown, you really don't have anything. It's hard to build a community around parking lots and subdivisions.

The majority of people who buy homes in golf course communities don't play golf. Golf is way down at the bottom in terms of total numbers and growth.

When the new home construction and everything does begin in New Orleans, it is going to be tight and it will have a long term effect.

If you have a boat and a happy marriage, you don't need another thing.

I have learned two important lessons from my association with the Marine Corps: always be on time and always be ready to do what is required when you get there.

Agriculture is the new golf

The best places to live, work, and visit are those places that are willing to uphold their standards in the face of pressure to allow lowest common denominator development... Successful communities understand that when they say no to development that is contrary to the long-term health of their community, they will almost always get better development in its place.

The image of a community is fundamentally important to its economic well-being. If all places look alike, there's no reason to go anywhere.

God invented whiskey to keep the Irish from ruling the world.

It is a disservice to people right now to let them rebuild everywhere. The tragedy is that they are likely, after a lot of hard work and personal investment, to find they can't get insurance, they can't get a mortgage, there won't be stores and city services for them.

Those aren't things you want to worry about later. It's important that the people caring for your loved one have all that information on hand from day one.

When a patient finds recognizable photographs, pillows and blankets in their new room, it gives them a sense of security and can make a world of difference. Things have a way of getting lost if you don't.

We all see the mills and all the stack lumber and it would be hard to think we would be in a bind, but realize even before this catastrophe, lumber had a high demand on it.

What developers are realizing is that they can provide green space that costs almost nothing to develop and it's an amenity that homeowners like and will pay a premium for.

There's no getting around the fact that the day of admission is going to be an emotional one; but there are a lot of things you can do to ensure a smooth transition.

This is a city that's had a terrible tragedy, but there's an opportunity to build it back and build it back better. It could become a city that integrates rather than isolates, a city that inspires, a city that celebrates history and diversity and culture and people.

It's going to be a traumatic time for everyone, there's no doubt about that.

They could use that as a place-maker, a community center.

But you do need to remember to bring the patient's toothbrush, comfortable clothes and shoes. Books, videos, music and any personal mementos are also a good idea.

By doing a little bit of work ahead of time, the transition will be a lot easier on the new nursing home resident and their family members.

The historical neighborhoods were the underpinnings of the city's economy, and rehabilitation of those historical buildings is critical to bringing the city back.