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Quotes by Screenwriter
"Plus, I was a math and science whiz from my first introduction to the subjects."
37
"The army is always the same. The sun and the moon change. The army knows no seasons."
37
"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."
36
"An artist should remain true. Otherwise his talent, like his stomach, grows fat and stuffy."
36
"I was trying to figure out what a memory feels like."
36
"The history of medicine is the history of the unusual."
36
"We all know the Navy is never wrong, but in this case it was a little weak on being right."
35
"Knowledge is more important than life. We've only one excuse for existing, to think, to find out, to learn."
35
"I've got to go. That's one of the penalties of being a doctor. I never seem to finish a conversation."
35
"So when I write characters and situations and relationships, I try to sort of utilize what I know about the world, limited as it is, and what I hear from my friends and see with my relatives."
35
"I get a little behind during Lent, but it comes out even at Christmas."
34
"In my case, self-absorption is completely justified. I have never discovered any other subject quite so worthy of my attention."
32
"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."
32
"As Oscar Wilde should have said, when bad ideas have nowhere else to go, they emigrate to America and become university courses."
32
"I'm going to be a great film star. That is, if booze and sex don't get me first."
31
"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."
31
"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,
30
"We wanted to create an environment where if a game player enjoyed the "writing style" of a particular game designer, he or she could look for the next game by that same author and not be disappointed."
30
"Our co-founder and company president, Jim Levy, came from a record industry background and understood the marketing and promotion of artists as well as products. So the video game business went from absolutely zero designer credit to something approaching rock star promotion."
29
"The letters were universally complimentary, and we designers loved hearing that our games were being enjoyed, but if they weren't sending us a picture of their screens most of those writers would have spent their time playing the game rather than writing letters."
29
"Some smart man once said that on the most exalted throne in the world, we are seated on nothing but our own arse."
28
"Volleyball is a Jewish sport. It's fun, and nobody can get hurt."
28
"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,
27
"Let me dispel a few rumors so they don't fester into facts."
27
"It's easy to understand why the most beautiful poems about England in the spring were written by poets living in Italy at the time."
27
"I stick my neck out for nobody. I'm the only cause I'm interested in."
26
"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."
26
"I've yet to meet a writer who could change water into wine, and we have a tendency to treat them like that."
26
"You can be much more alone with other people than you are by yourself. Even if it's people you love."
26
"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."
26
"It's fear of being afraid that frightens me more than anything else."
24
"You have another little drink, and I'll have another little drink, and maybe we can work up some real family feeling here."
24
"I was a little hesitant at taking the job at Atari. I had never programmed for a living and I worried it might get boring (building circuits seemed more fun). But I would probably still be in the video game business."
24
"The Japanese do not fear God. They only fear bombs."
23
"I told you, the dopes are gonna inherit the earth anyway."
22
"It is a wise man who knows where courage ends and stupidity begins."
22
"I didn't lead a very wise life, myself, but it was a full one and a grown-up one. You come of age very quickly through shipwreck and disaster."
22
"She knew what all smart women knew: Laughter made you live better and longer."
21
"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?"
20
"Once in his lifetime every artist feels the hand of God and creates something that comes alive."
20
"If there were no mystery left to explore life would get rather dull, wouldn't it?"
20
"Experience has taught me never to trust a policeman. Just when you think one's all right, he turns legit."
19
"Well, it seems to me a scientist has need for both vision and confidence."
19
"A doctor is fascinated by death, and pain. And how much pain a man can endure."
18
"I've always been more afraid of being left alone or left out than of things that go bump in the night."
12
"When a girl's under 21, she's protected by law. When she's over 65, she's protected by nature. Anywhere in between she's fair game."
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