Famous Quotes & Sayings

Samuel Goldwyn

The trouble with this business is the dearth of bad pictures.

Samuel Goldwyn

"Yes, but that's our strongest weak point."

Samuel Goldwyn

I paid too much for it, but it's worth it.

Samuel Goldwyn

True, I've been a long time making up my mind, but now I'm giving you a definite answer. I won't say yes, and I won't say no - but I'm giving you a definite maybe.

Samuel Goldwyn

We have that Indian scene. We can get the Indians from the reservoir.

Samuel Goldwyn

I want to make a picture about the Russian secret police - the GOP.

Samuel Goldwyn

You fail to overlook the crucial point.

Samuel Goldwyn

Tell them to stand closer apart.

Samuel Goldwyn

Don't improve it into a flop!

Samuel Goldwyn

Put it out of your mind. In no time, it will be a forgotten memory.

Samuel Goldwyn

There is a statue of limitation.

Samuel Goldwyn

I don't care if it doesn't make a nickel. I just want every man, woman, and child in America to see it.

Samuel Goldwyn

In two words, impossible.

Samuel Goldwyn

A Hospital is no place to be sick.

Samuel Goldwyn

Can she sing? She's practically a Florence Nightingale.

Thomas Hobbes

If I read as many books as most men do, I would be as dull-witted as they are.

Thomas Kretschmann

This is one of his most human and most amusing and witty novels. The characters are very Indian. I decided that I wanted to do a comedy, so this was just the right one.

Roman Coppola

I've been enjoying 'Life on the Mississippi' by Mark Twain that I picked up at the airport randomly. It's very witty and interesting to read about his time as a steamboat pilot.

Sacha Guitry

You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.

Paula Poundstone

I mean, I do love clever and witty, but I think that the 'Three Stooges' were geniuses. They'd have to be for their appeal to have lasted this long.

Plato

Mankind will never see an end of trouble until lovers of wisdom come to hold political power, or the holders of power become lovers of wisdom

Seymour Cray

#3 pencils and quadrille pads.(when asked what CAD tools he used to design the Cray I supercomputer )

Seymour Cray

Interesting - I use a Mac to help me design the next Cray.(when he was told that Apple Inc. had recently bought a Cray supercomputer to help them design the next Mac )

Seymour Cray

If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?

Larry David

Weathermen merely forecast rain to keep everyone else off the golf course

Suzanne Collins

I'm trying to think of a witty comeback, when Boggs says brusquely, “Well, don't expect us to be too impressed. We just saw Finnick Odair in his underwear.” I decide to go ahead and like Boggs.

Suzanne Collins

By the end of the session, I am no one at all. Haymitch started drinking somewhere around witty, and a nasty edge has crept into his voice. "I give up, sweetheart. Just answer the questions and try not to let the audience see how openly you despise them.

Sophie Kinsella

Being a journalist is good if you want to write books: it teaches you to get beyond the blank screen. My books have been described as froth, but there's scope to be witty and ironic about everything in life.

Sid Caesar

The best thing about humour is that it shows people they are not alone.

Natalie Maines

It almost takes people by surprise when I'm not a big talker. Because I'm known as being sort of a loud mouth. I have a lot to say. But I try to be more thoughtful with my comments or reactions, unless it's something witty or hysterical that I just can't keep myself from blurting or tweeting!

Tony Benn

When I think of Cool Britannia I think of old people dying of hypothermia.

Robert A. Heinlein

Nothing uses up alcohol faster than political argument.

Toni Morrison

The habit of getting up early, which I had formed when the children were young, now became my choice. I am not very bright or very witty or very inventive after the sun goes down.