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Famous People Quotes #6

Posted on March 27, 2011 by

“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, they finish by loading honors on your head.” – Jean Cocteau (1889-1963)

“Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.” – Georg Lichtenberg (1742-1799)

“Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it” – Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

“While we are postponing, life speeds by.” – Seneca (3BC – 65AD)

“Where are we going, and why am I in this handbasket?” – Bumper Sticker

“God, please save me from your followers!” – Bumper Sticker

“Fill what’s empty, empty what’s full, and scratch where it itches.” – The Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life

“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.” – Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)

“Luck is the residue of design.” – Branch Rickey – former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team

“Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.” – Mel Brooks

“Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.” – Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)

“Wit is educated insolence.” – Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)

“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 (470-399 B.C.)

“Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t” – Erica Jong (1942-)

“Show me a woman who doesn’t feel guilty and I’ll show you a man.” – Erica Jong (1942-)

“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” – Maya Angelou (1928-)

“Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.” – Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)

“A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.” – Gore Vidal

“Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.” – Samuel Palmer (1805-80)

“It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.” – Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

“The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.” – Aristotle Onassis (1906-1975)

“Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny.” – Guy Davenport

“When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.” – Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

Movies Quotes

Posted on January 12, 2011January 12, 2011 by

– “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