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We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Education Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Education
"I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde Education "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education
Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) Education It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
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The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Education Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Education
"Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand Education I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Education
No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" Education If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Education
"Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry Education Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education
Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous Education Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot Education
Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm Education I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw Education
Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry Education We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Education
Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Education To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard 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 Education
