Quote (#552)

Practice random beauty and
senseless acts of love.
- Anonymous

"Setting a good example for children
takes all the fun out of middle age."
- William Feather

"I have just returned from Boston. It is the only
sane thing to do if you find yourself up there."
- Fred Allen

Short change your education now and you may
be short of change the rest of your life.
- Anonymous

"Love dies only when growth stops."
- Pearl S. Buck

"A good film is when the price of
the dinner, the theatre admission
and the babysitter were worth it."
- Alfred Hitchcock

Quote (#494)

Angels fly because they
take themselves lightly.
- Jean Cocteau

When I pass, speak freely of
my shortcomings and my flaws.
Learn from them, for I'll
have no ego to injure.
- Aaron McGruder

If you think you can, you can. And
if you think you can't, you're right.
- Mary Kay Ash

"I hate television. I hate it
as much as I hate peanuts. But
I can't stop eating peanuts."
- Orson Welles

"Seeing a murder on television... can help work
off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some."
- Alfred Hitchcock

"Human beings are the only creatures on earth
that allow their children to come back home."
- Bill Cosby

Quotaria

"Television has brought back murder
into the home - where it belongs."
- Alfred Hitchcock

"We build statues out of snow,
and weep to see them melt."
- Walter Scott

"As I grow older , I regret to say
that a detestable habit of thinking
seems to be getting a hold of me."
- H. Rider Haggard

"Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university
stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could
have been prevented by a good teacher."
- Flannery O'Connor

"Anybody can win unless there
happens to be a second entry."
- George Ade

"Charm is a way of getting the answer
yes without asking a clear question."
- Albert Camus

Quotaria

"Freedom lies in being bold."
- Robert Frost

"What you get free costs too much."
- Jean Anouilh

"I know that you believe that you understood what
you think I said, but I am not sure you realize
that what you heard is not what I meant."
- Robert McCloskey

"The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery,
a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for
a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an
oracle, is inborn in us."
- Paul Valery

"This paperback is very interesting, but I find
it will never replace a hardcover book - it makes
a very poor doorstop."
- Alfred Hitchcock

A friend of mine characterizes leaders simply like
this: "Leaders don't inflict pain. They bear pain."
~ Max DePree

Quotes

"In films murders are always very clean.
I show how difficult it is and what a
messy thing it is to kill a man."
- Alfred Hitchcock

"Never tell anyone that you're writing a book, going
on a diet, exercising, taking a course, or quitting
smoking. They'll encourage you to death."
- Lynn Johnston

"Now is the time for all
good men to come to."
- Walt Kelly

"An associate producer is the
only guy in Hollywood who will
associate with a producer."
- Fred Allen

"I, Joan Crawford,
I believe in the dollar.
Everything I earn, I spend."
- Joan Crawford

And God said, 'Let there be light' and there was
light, but the Electricity Board said he would
have to wait until Thursday to be connected.
- Spike Milligan

Quotes

"I think computer viruses should count
as life. I think it says something about
human nature that the only life we have
created so far is purely destructive.
We've created life in our own image."
- Stephen Hawking

"The best way to make your dreams
come true is to wake up."
- Paul Valery

"Anybody who wants the presidency so much that he'll
spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is
not to be trusted with the office."
- David Broder

"The aging process has you firmly in
its grasp if you never get the urge
to throw a snowball."
- Doug Larson

The length of a film should be directly related
to the endurance of the human bladder.
- Alfred Hitchcock

"A lawyer starts life giving $500 worth of law
for $5 and ends giving $5 worth for $500."
- Benjamin H. Brewster