Pauline Kael Quotes

De Mille's bang-them-on-the-head-with-wild-orgies-and-imperilled-virginity style is at its ripest; the film is just about irresistible.

Pauline Kael

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• No matter how good you are, how brave you are or anything, it comes down to that car so many times. Not every time, but so many times.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Time
  • Good
  • Car

• There's nothing unnatural in creation.

  

  Wadada Leo Smith
  • Nothing
  • Creation
  • Unnatural

• I was always interested in the kind of history they didn't teach you in school.

  

  Sally Watson
  • School
  • History
  • Teach

• No god ever gave any man anything, nor ever answered any prayer at any time - nor ever will.

  

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair
  • Time
  • God
  • Man

• The Federal Reserve is incapable of accomplishing its stated objectives.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • Objectives
  • Incapable

• If people don't find what you are doing threatening, then it is probably not very important.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • Important
  • Doing

• None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Wish
  • Proud
  • Taken

• Vietnam helped me to look at the horror and terror in the hearts of people and realize how we can't aim guns and set booby traps for people we have never spoken a word to. That kind of impersonal violence mystifies me.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
  • People
  • Violence
  • Hearts

• The most romantic thing someone did was surprise me at the airport, after being away for 3 months in Los Angeles. You always see people with signs, and you're like, 'Isn't that lovely?' and then you see your own name on one - that isn't a taxi driver's! I was very impressed.

  

  Ophelia Lovibond
  • People
  • Romantic
  • Surprise

• Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Understanding
  • Dangerous

• Democracy requires common ground on which all can stand, but that ground is sinking beneath our feet, and democracy may be going down the sinkhole with it.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • May
  • Democracy
  • Feet

• I was, by the way - I'm an Essex lad, born and raised in Essex in the U.K.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Way
  • Born
  • Raised

• You can instill fear in your kids and get them to mind, but they won't function better in the world and your relationship will suffer greatly.

  

  Ian Dunbar
  • World
  • Mind
  • Kids

• Comedy is such a vulnerable thing. With drama, you're not trying to make someone cry. If you do, great, but that's not your goal. With comedy, you're trying to make someone laugh, so to me, it's harder because you are in such a vulnerable position. You're like, 'I hope people like this. I hope I do the joke justice.'

  

  Harley Quinn Smith
  • People
  • Great
  • Trying

• The Queen's wedding dress in 1947, there was some embroidery on the train which was definitely there to illustrate new dawn/post-war optimism, that sort of thing.

  

  Kate Reardon
  • War
  • Wedding
  • Queen

• I grew up in an all-female family - two sisters and a mostly single mother - and we often bonded, in part, by disparaging men and feeling superior to them.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Up
  • Men
  • Family

• My new movie, Fools Rush In, is a romantic comedy and the girl I play in that is very warm, very sweet.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Movie
  • Girl
  • Comedy

• Europe is no longer Europe, it is Eurabia, a colony of Islam, where the Islamic invasion does not proceed only in a physical sense, but also in a mental and cultural sense.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Islamic
  • Islam
  • Physical

• I had left school at 16, gone to stage school - and, until I was 22, I hadn't really played anyone but myself. Then in 1979, I made a film with Mike Leigh called 'Grownups,' which went out on the BBC, and overnight this new career opened up.

  

  Lesley Manville
  • Up
  • School
  • Career

• You were right," said the Master impressed by the neatness of Korovyov's work, "when you said: no documents, no person. So that means I don't exist since I don't have any documents.

  

  Mikhail Bulgakov
  • Exist
  • Master
  • Documents

• In 1979, when I was 39, I had such a bad year, I thought it was all over. Thankfully it wasn't.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Bad
  • Thought
  • Year

• I don't know how I dealt with it. I went to a shrink.

  

  Lynn Redgrave

• De Mille's bang-them-on-the-head-with-wild-orgies-and-imperilled-virginity style is at its ripest; the film is just about irresistible.

  

  Pauline Kael
  • Style