We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Polanow Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with Polanow
Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce Polanow Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Polanow
In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Polanow "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Polanow
Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Polanow You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Polanow
Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Polanow Man and wife make one fool. "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Polanow
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke Polanow "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived Polanow
Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Polanow May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley Polanow
Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Polanow I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Polanow
blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words Polanow If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) Polanow
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) Polanow Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein Polanow
"The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Polanow The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson Polanow
