William Goldman Quotes
Fool!" cried the hunchback. "You fell victim to one of the classic blunders. The most famous is 'Never get involved in a land war in Asia,' but only slightly less well known is this: 'Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line.William Goldman
Quotes to Explore
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Instead of stubbornly attempting to use surrealism for purposes of subversion, it is necessary to try to make of surrealism something as solid, complete and classic as the works of museums.
Salvador Dali -
Self-censorship is a lie to yourself; if you are going to be trying to seriously create art, to create literary art, and you decide to hold back, to censor yourself, then you are a fool to yourself and it would be better that you kept your mouth shut and did not speak.
Salman Rushdie -
I've been fortunate to be in films that are classic, that are going to be around.
Samuel L. Jackson -
The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -
It's not blaming the victim. It's not anybody's fault. They just did something that didn't work, that's all.
Kary Mullis -
When I'm writing, I look like a fool because the parts are moving through me and I'm crying and laughing and making faces.
Zoe Kazan
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The most important issue for the killer is the ability to get a victim easily and successfully.
Pat Brown -
My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.
Ursula K. Le Guin -
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
E. F. Schumacher -
One disadvantage of being a hog is that at any moment some blundering fool may try to make a silk purse out of your wife's ear.
J. B. Morton -
I made a classic mistake. I held out for something better.
Parker Stevenson -
Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.
J. B. Priestley
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He who cheats others is a knave, but he who cheats himself is a fool.
Karl G. Maeser -
I drive a 1965 Shelby Cobra. I love classic muscle cars.
Aaron Paul -
There's a thin line between catering to the masses and making a fool of yourself; I try to walk that line.
Samantha Ruth Prabhu -
Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
Samuel Johnson -
A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again.
W. E. B. Du Bois -
You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
Abraham Lincoln
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Why am I trying to become what I don't want to be? What am I doing in an office, making a contemptuous, begging fool of myself, when all I want is out there, waiting for me the minute I say I know who I am!
Arthur Miller -
Don't be fool's, don't be complacent, and stop being apathetic.
David Pratt -
The use of lines of code metrics for productivity and quality studies is to be regarded as professional malpractice starting in 1995.
Capers Jones -
Coming to Nashville has been so motivating and inspirational. Just watching people live and breathe their music and create something that they can feel from start to finish.
Madi Diaz -
We've had it very clear to the Bosnians that our obligation to equip and train their forces is completely conditional on the foreign forces being gone.
Warren Christopher -
Fool!" cried the hunchback. "You fell victim to one of the classic blunders. The most famous is 'Never get involved in a land war in Asia,' but only slightly less well known is this: 'Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line.
William Goldman