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Quotes by Screenwriter
"Good intentions are not enough. They've never put an onion in the soup yet."
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"When I was 18, I thought my father was pretty dumb. After a while when I got to be 21, I was amazed to find out how much he'd learned in three years."
25
"The joy of giving is indeed a pleasure, especially when you get rid of something you don't want."
21
"The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labour in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour."
20
"The ugly is very appealing to man. It's instinct. One shrinks from the ugly, yet wants to look at it. There's a devilish fascination in it. We extract pleasure from horror."
20
"Everything that ever walked or crawled on the face of the earth, swum the depths of the ocean or soared through the skies left its imprint here."
20
"Wonderful invention, the phonograph. Keeps a man alive long after he's dead."
19
"Why not a space flower? Why do we always expect metal ships?"
18
"I'll bet your father spent the first year of your life throwing rocks at the stork."
18
"Happens to everybody. Horses, dogs, men. Nobody gets out of life alive."
18
"Indecision is a virus that can run through an army and destroy its will to win or even to survive."
18
"After all, the wool of a black sheep is just as warm."
18
"You can be a good neighbor only if you have good neighbors."
17
"Small things have a way of overmastering the great. This small press can destroy a kingdom."
17
"That's right, fall in one pit and start over from the beginning! Well, thankfully my buddies practically tied me to my chair until I put in extra lives and I'm glad they did."
17
"Bishops are like umpires. You have to have them to call the close decisions."
17
"Oh, I realize it's a penny here and a penny there, but look at me: I've worked myself up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty."
17
"There are no strangers on Christmas Eve."
17
"A fool and his money are lucky enough to get together in the first place."
16
"A golf course is nothing but a pool room moved outdoors."
16
"Even as fog continues to lie in the valleys, so does ancient sin cling to the low places, the depressions in the world consciousness."
16
"Constantly talking isn't necessarily communicating."
16
"Looking back, video game design seems a natural fit, although there was no such thing when I was growing up. I built a Tic-Tac-Toe playing machine in my teens which went up in smoke on the night it was scheduled to go to a science fair."
15
"There are no enemies in science, professor. Only phenomena to study."
15
"As soon as the harvest is in, you're a migrant worker. Afterwards just a bum."
15
"I quite agree with you. The sun is not kind. God should use a rose amber spot."
15
"If it's December 1941 in Casablanca, what time is it in New York?"
14
"Fear has nothing to do with cowardice. A fellow is only yellow when he lets his fear make him quit."
14
"One week before Pitfall! was to be released, I only gave you one life to play the whole game. I was experimenting with that concept as sort of the ultimate challenge."
14
"I'm not a celebrity. I'm intentionally and defiantly not a celebrity. I don't have any interest in it. I don't have any talent for it. I keep my personal life out of my public life as cleanly as I can."
14
"We've restored life where life was extinct. It's no longer sufficient to bring the dead back to life. We must create from the beginning, we must build up our own creature, build it up from nothing."
14
"Forgive your enemies, but first get even."
14
"I suppose any note, no matter how sour, sounds like a song if you hold onto it long enough."
14
"A benevolent mind, and the face assumes the patterns of benevolence. An evil mind, then an evil face."
14
"First you find a little thread, a little thread leads you to a string, and the string leads you to a rope. And from the rope you hang by the neck."
13
"My background is in hardware design. I found hardware work to be a welcome change from thousands of hours of programming and that led to the designs you mentioned."
13
"Knowledge is more important than life. We've only one excuse for existing, to think, to find out, to learn."
13
"The history of medicine is the history of the unusual."
13
"We all know the Navy is never wrong, but in this case it was a little weak on being right."
12
"What does one tell a husband? One tells him nothing."
12
"Never apologize, mister. It's a sign of weakness."
12
"Break up the printing presses and you break up rebellion."
12
"Whoever eats anything at a wedding luncheon? They make the food out of papier mache. My salad had been used four or five times this week."
12
"There is no fence nor hedge round time that is gone. You can go back and have what you like of it if you can remember."
Time,
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