"I expect to win it. Sit back, put your feet up in front of the TV, relax and enjoy it. Let me do the worrying - that's what I get paid for."
-- England manager Graham Taylor before the 1992 European championships. England didn't win a game.©JOKEDEMO.COM
"I have always found strangers sexy."
-- Hugh Grant, six months before he was arrested with stranger Divine Brown.©JOKEDEMO.COM
"I would not wish to be Prime Minister, dear."
-- Margaret Thatcher in 1973.©JOKEDEMO.COM
"That rainbow song's no good. Take it out."
-- MGM memo after first showing of The Wizard Of Oz.©JOKEDEMO.COM
"You'd better learn secretarial skills or else get married."
-- Modelling agency, rejecting Marilyn Monroe in 1944.©JOKEDEMO.COM
"Radio has no future." "X-rays are clearly a hoax". "The aeroplane is scientifically impossible."
-- Royal Society president Lord Kelvin, 1897-9.©JOKEDEMO.COM
"You ought to go back to driving a truck."
-- Concert manager, firing Elvis Presley in 1954.©JOKEDEMO.COM
"Forget it. No Civil War picture ever made a nickel."
-- MGM executive, advising against investing in Gone With The Wind.©JOKEDEMO.COM
"Can't act. Can't sing. Slightly bald. Can dance a little."
-- A film company's verdict on Fred Astaire's 1928 screen test.©JOKEDEMO.COM
"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.©JOKEDEMO.COM
"There will be one million cases of AIDS in Britain by 1991."
-- World Health Organisation in a 1989 report. It over-estimated by 992,301 cases.©JOKEDEMO.COM
"The Beatles? They're on the wane."
-- The Duke of Edinburgh in Canada, 1965. They went on to produce a string of No 1s.©JOKEDEMO.COM
"The atom bomb will never go off - and I speak as an expert in explosives."
-- U.S. Admiral William Leahy in 1945.©JOKEDEMO.COM
"All saved from Titanic after collision."
-- New York Evening Sun, April 15 1912.©JOKEDEMO.COM
"Brain work will cause women to go bald."
-- Berlin professor, 1914.©JOKEDEMO.COM
"Television won't matter in your lifetime or mine."
-- Radio Times editor Rex Lambert, 1936.©JOKEDEMO.COM
"Everything that can be invented has been invented."
-- Director of the US Patent Office, 1899.©JOKEDEMO.COM
"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.
