"There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Film Directors "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Film Directors
"The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Film Directors Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had Film Directors
A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Film Directors A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Film Directors
It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Film Directors The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Film Directors
Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Film Directors The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Film Directors
Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Film Directors I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett Film Directors
"Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William Film Directors "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel Film Directors
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Film Directors Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Film Directors
Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Film Directors Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Film Directors
"Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson Film Directors Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Film Directors
Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Film Directors Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Film Directors
