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British Film Institute - UK national body for encouraging and preserving film, television and the moving image. Information for fans, members and filmmakers includes films now showing, news, features, education, collections and archives, links and their monthly magazine Sight & Sound.
Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night. -- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?" Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post. -- George Bernard Shaw You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is. -- Ellen DeGeneres I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot. -- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show Film He would make a lovely corpse. - Charles Dickens Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives. -- John Stuart Mill "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Film Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure. -- Oliver Herford If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done. -- Scott Adams "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. -- Thomas Jefferson >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory! -- General Douglas MacArthur Film He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job. -- Anonymous The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children. -- Clarence Darrow Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence. -- Essie Summers Film Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others. -- H. Jackson Brown We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him. -- Shelley Winters The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. -- George Bernard Shaw "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails? -- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Film The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity. -- Winston Churchill What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death. -- Dave Barry A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage. -- Marvin Kitman Film I criticize by creation - not by finding fault. - Cicero "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time. -- inside of a Pepsi cap Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent. -- Michel de Montaigne Film Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious. -- Oscar Wilde "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) 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 Film 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 Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener. -- Pauline Thomason The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. -- Mark Twain It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men. -- Mae West Where there is an unknowable there is a promise. -- Thornton Wilder Film "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three children and no theories. -- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Film It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions. -- Aldous Huxley Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died. -- Erma Bombeck When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. -- Bertrand Russell When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite. - Sir Winston Churchill Film If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one. -- Mother Teresa If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example. -- Anon. Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have people all Film You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency. -- W. Somerset Maugham My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher. - Socrates Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony. -- Oliver Herford You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald spot. -- Elayne Boosler The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Film One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well. -- Virginia Woolf "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Film "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing. -- Kingsley Amis I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table. -- Rodney Dangerfield He that would have the fruit must climb the tree. -- Thomas Fuller, M.D. "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Film Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire. -- William Yeats Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation. -- Francis Bacon For most of history, Anonymous was a woman. -- Virginia Woolf Film The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense. -- Tom Clancy "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations. -- François de La Rouchefoucauld Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. A friend is a gift you give yourself. -- Robert Louis Stevenson Film A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife. -- Edgar Watson Howe Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible. -- Mao Tse-tung Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. -- Aristotle Film If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep. -- Dale Carnegie The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat. -- Lily Tomlin The only reward of virtue is virtue. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Never moon a werewolf. -- Mike Binder Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door. -- Emily Dickinson Film I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today? --Loesje This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes time to get a dance right, to create something memorable. -- Fred Astaire Film "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary. -- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons. -- Slavoj Zizek We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen. -- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that. -- Shakespeare, William Film I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch. -- Gilda Radner Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect. --Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" Film
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