Day: January 12, 2011
John Maynard Keynes Quotes
– “A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.”
– “Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be.”
– “By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.”
– “Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.”
– “Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.”
– “For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still.”
– “I do not know which makes a man more conservative – to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.”
– “I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.”
– “Ideas shape the course of history.”
– “If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid.”
– “In the long run we are all dead.”
– “It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.”
– “It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still.”
– “Like Odysseus, the President looked wiser when he was seated.”
– “Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.”
– “Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.”
– “Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.”
– “Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.”
– “The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.”
Movies Quotes
– “A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what’s behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.” – Stanley Kubrick
– “A film is a petrified fountain of thought.” – Jean Cocteau
– “A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.” – Orson Welles
– “A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.” – Alfred Hitchcock
– “A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.” – Alfred Hitchcock
– “A story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end… but not necessarily in that order.” – Jean-Luc Godard
– “A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.” – Samuel Goldwyn
– “Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.” – Mary Pickford
– “And in movies you must be a gambler. To produce films is to gamble.” – Douglas Sirk
– “Cinema is a matter of what’s in the frame and what’s out.” – Martin Scorsese
– “Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.” – Jean-Luc Godard
– “Citizen Kane is perhaps the one American talking picture that seems as fresh now as the day it opened. It may seem even fresher.” – Pauline Kael
– “Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me.” – Federico Fellini
– “Every great film should seem new every time you see it.” – Roger Ebert
– “Every single art form is involved in film, in a way.” – Sydney Pollack
– “Everybody’s a filmmaker today.” – John Milius
– “Everyone told me to pass on Speed because it was a «bus movie.»” – Sandra Bullock
– “Everything makes me nervous – except making films.” – Elizabeth Taylor
– “Film lovers are sick people.” – Francois Truffaut
– “Film spectators are quiet vampires.” – Jim Morrison