Screenwriter Quotes

Where in this wide world can man find nobility without pride,
Friendship without envy, or beauty without vanity?

Recommendation for a successful tabloid story: Add sex, and stir.

Facts may be colored by the personalities of the people who present them.

I love the sea but it does not love me. The sea is like a desert in that it is quite rightly feared. The sea and the desert are both hungry, they have things to be getting on with so you do not go into them lightly.

More than a billion adults worldwide are now overweight - and at least 300 million of them are clinically obese. Childhood obesity is already epidemic in some areas and on the rise in others. Worldwide, an estimated 17.6 million children under five are said to be overweight.

Morgan Spurlock

It's definitely best for little children to have a regular life, especially if they can regulate it themselves.

Astrid Lindgren

We all dream of being a child again, even the worst of us. Perhaps the worst most of all.

Flo: I've never been so insulted in my life.
Hackenbush: Well, it's early yet.

Boston is one of the few American cities that regrets the past... Boston's like England. Up to its ears in yellowing photographs.

Penelope Gilliatt

On how to make a toast for breakfast:

Brown for first course, white for pudding. Brown's the savory and white's the treat.

Great parts of our economy are directly dependent upon women having a weak self-concept. A multi-billion dollar fashion-cosmetic industry testifies to the validity of this approach. A woman who does not know who she is can be sold anything.

Gabrielle Burton

The birds fly in the wrong places and there are too many stars in the sky.

Anthony Horowitz

Cunnilingus and psychiatry brought us to this.

Nobody comes to Minnesota to take their clothes off, at least as far as I know.

The essence of fascism is to make laws forbidding everything and then enforce them selectively against your enemies.

There are no available men in their thirties in New York. Giuliani had them removed along with the homeless.

Michael Patrick King

To Christopher Isherwood who had caught a bad cold and was saying apologetically that he should have cancelled their meeting:

My dear Christopher, any cold of yours is a cold of mine.

Before Me you are a slug in the sun. You are privy to a great Becoming and you recognize nothing. You are an ant in the after-birth.It is in your nature to do one thing correctly: before Me you rightly tremble. Fear is not what you owe Me, Lounds, you and the other pismires. You owe Me awe.

Sometimes you just gotta trust that your secret's been kept long enough.

Are you by any chance acquainted with the words 'steel toe'? Or do the words 'permanent dent' mean anything to you?" My locker door is not intimidated. "My grandfather was a vault at Fort Knox, and if you try to dent me with a kick you will only tear some ligament that will never mend.

Despite appearances, puzzling is not a solitary game: every move the puzzler makes, the puzzlemaker has made before; every piece the puzzler picks up, and picks up again, and studies and strokes, every combination he tries, and tries a second time, every blunder and every insight, each hope and each discouragement have all been designed, calculated, and decided by the other.

The fish was an enemy. It had come upon the community and killed two men, a woman, and a child. The people of Amity would demand the death of the fish. They would need to see it dead before they could feel secure enough to resume their normal lives.

At the end, one didn't remember life as a whole but as just a string of moments.

She is a phenomenon of nature, like Niagara Falls or the Grand Canyon. You can't talk to it. It can't talk to you. All you can do is stand back and be awed by it.

Of Marilyn Monroe

Nunnally Johnson

There's nothing like an airport for bringing you down to earth.

Richard Gordon (English author)