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Quotes by Screenwriter
"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."
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"Indecision is a virus that can run through an army and destroy its will to win or even to survive."
6
"A fool and his money are lucky enough to get together in the first place."
5
"I'll bet your father spent the first year of your life throwing rocks at the stork."
5
"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."
5
"Why not a space flower? Why do we always expect metal ships?"
3
"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."
3
"Happens to everybody. Horses, dogs, men. Nobody gets out of life alive."
3
"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."
3
"The history of medicine is the history of the unusual."
3
"The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labour in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour."
2
"Fear has nothing to do with cowardice. A fellow is only yellow when he lets his fear make him quit."
2
"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."
2
"You can be a good neighbor only if you have good neighbors."
2
"Small things have a way of overmastering the great. This small press can destroy a kingdom."
2
"Wonderful invention, the phonograph. Keeps a man alive long after he's dead."
2
"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."
2
"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."
2
"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."
2
"Bishops are like umpires. You have to have them to call the close decisions."
2
"Good intentions are not enough. They've never put an onion in the soup yet."
2
"We were advised that nobody could stop us from pursuing our craft simply because we had honed, or even developed that craft while working at a company."
2
"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."
1
"If it's December 1941 in Casablanca, what time is it in New York?"
1
"We all know the Navy is never wrong, but in this case it was a little weak on being right."
1
"Plus, I was a math and science whiz from my first introduction to the subjects."
1
"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."
1
"There are no enemies in science, professor. Only phenomena to study."
1
"Well, I always say the law was meant to be interpreted in a lenient manner. And that's what I try to do, is sometimes I lean to one side of it, sometimes I lean to the other."
Law,
1
"A golf course is nothing but a pool room moved outdoors."
1
"In my case, self-absorption is completely justified. I have never discovered any other subject quite so worthy of my attention."
1
"Shame, shame, shame. How many times have I told you not to be frightened? Have I not told you God looks after all his children?"
1
"My dear, since Eve picked the apple no woman's ever been taken entirely unawares. When a woman's kissed it's because, deep down, she wants to be kissed."
1
"It's fear of being afraid that frightens me more than anything else."
1
"Let me dispel a few rumors so they don't fester into facts."
1
"Another little known fact about Amazing Tennis - the computer opponents are modeled after real people. In an odd turn of events, I joined a division 3 college tennis team at age 38."
1
"Never apologize, mister. It's a sign of weakness."
1
"It is a wise man who knows where courage ends and stupidity begins."
1
"Break up the printing presses and you break up rebellion."
1
"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."
1
"Forgive your enemies, but first get even."
1
"She knew what all smart women knew: Laughter made you live better and longer."
1
"There's nothing more irresistible to a man than a woman who's in love with him."
1
"The Japanese do not fear God. They only fear bombs."
1
"Experience has taught me never to trust a policeman. Just when you think one's all right, he turns legit."
1
"Knowledge is more important than life. We've only one excuse for existing, to think, to find out, to learn."
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