Billy Wilder Quotes

I'd worship the ground you walked on if only you walked in a better neighborhood.

Billy Wilder

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• There's no more to Holden Caulfield. Read the book again. It's all there. Holden Caulfield is only a frozen moment in time.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Time
  • Book
  • Moment

• Consciousness is an end in itself. We torture ourselves getting somewhere, and when we get there it is nowhere, for there is nowhere to get to.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • End
  • Consciousness
  • Torture

• The fact that we're living in a country where 90 percent of the people want further gun laws - to maybe somehow put a dent in some of this insanity that's happening - and yet there's no further legislation taking place, it's very frustrating and upsetting.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • People
  • Country
  • Gun

• I have a good mind but I don't like to bore anyone with it.

  

  Rae Dawn Chong
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Like

• I always like to preserve my freedom. I've never really been attached to any place; that's probably why I kept moving. I like to evolve.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Why
  • Freedom
  • Moving

• Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.

  

  Abbie Hoffman
  • Sacred
  • Cows
  • Hamburger

• I actually remember the exact date I got the call that I got the 'Spider-Man: Homecoming' role - May 6, 2016. It was probably the best day of my life.

  

  Jacob Batalon
  • Life
  • May
  • Remember

• We need to work tirelessly to help create new jobs and good jobs here in Florida.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Good
  • Work
  • Help

• I would say that one of the things that encouraged me so much when I became elected to the leadership was the letters I received from fathers of daughters, saying that, 'My daughter can now do many more things because of what you did.'

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Leadership
  • Daughter
  • Fathers

• I'm part Filipino, part Japanese, part Chinese, part Malaysian, and part Spanish, and all those people, they love their karaoke. So whenever my family got together, we'd all karaoke.

  

  Manika
  • People
  • Family
  • Together

• The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Space
  • Dinosaurs
  • Extinct

• I'm pretty lucky to work on both 'CSI: NY' and 'Supernatural.' Not bad gigs!

  

  A. J. Buckley
  • Work
  • Bad
  • Pretty

• I don't know if it's changing already with 'Joanne,' but my intention is to bring people together that don't know each other and that would maybe feel awkward, but somehow be brought together by the music. That's what I wanted to do. Because that is pure and authentic to my family history and what I stand for.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Music
  • Family

• She wore a dress Ronan thought looked like a lampshade. Whatever sort of lamp it belonged on, Gansey clearly wished he had one. Ronan wasn't a fan of lamps.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • She

• This SimChuck is one suave bastard.

  

  Chuck Klosterman

• Apple! Boy, what a story. No taxes paid, everything made abroad - yet everyone worships them. This new iPhone, there's nothing new in it. Just a golden color. What the hell, right? When people start playing with color, you know they're played out.

  

  Vaclav Smil
  • People
  • Boy
  • Color

• Vehicular traffic is completely forbidden in the green strips, where tranquility shall reign and the curse of noise shall not penetrate.

  

  Le Corbusier
  • Green

• Before we were born, a whole society of storytellers was already here. The storytellers who were here before us taught us how to be human.

  

  Don Miguel Ruiz
  • Society
  • Human
  • Born

• I accept refreshment at any hands, however lowly.

  

  W. S. Gilbert
  • Hands
  • Accepting
  • Refreshments

• I think so much in time. I always have. Even at 20, I thought in terms of time, that I don't have a lot of time left. And I want to do so many things.

  

  Jerry Lewis
  • Time

• I'd worship the ground you walked on if only you walked in a better neighborhood.

  

  Billy Wilder