You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) H "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill H
Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry H "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf H
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz H If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman H
Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw H Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co H
The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) H When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman H
"Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein "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) "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) H Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric H
Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein H I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell H
Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland H Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi H
I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach H Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger H
"What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West H Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker H
The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, H Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) H
