William Goldman Quotes

It was only when the giant got halfway down the incline that he suddenly, happily, burst into flame and continued his trip saying, "NO SURVIVORS, NO SURVIVORS!" in a manner that could only indicate deadly sincerity. It was seeing him happily burning and advancing that startled the Brute Squad to screaming. And once that happened, why, everybody panicked and ran.

William Goldman

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• I'm not a fan of 'Gone With the Wind.' I didn't like the movie. I didn't like the book.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Book
  • Movie
  • Like

• You won't hear me talk about my politics, you won't hear me talk about my vegetarianism, you won't hear me comment on the Iraq war. You'll only hear me talk about being gay and being an actor. I am just public on those two issues.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Gay
  • Actor
  • Issues

• There was a huge, tremendous amount of disabled veterans and the Veteran's Administration just wasn't geared up for it. I know for a fact that it's getting better and better.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • Up
  • Veteran
  • Veterans

• Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world.

  

  Earl Warren
  • World
  • Liberty
  • Communism

• People like Spencer Tracy held up because they had the background originally, but to this day they never have changed Mr. Gable's role, or most of them.

  

  Jackie Cooper
  • People
  • Up
  • Day

• One fifth of human kind depend on fish to live. Today now 70 percent of the fish stock are over-exploited. According to FAO if we don't change our system of fishing the main sea resources will be gone in 2050. We don't want to believe what we know.

  

  Yann Arthus-Bertrand
  • Believe
  • Live
  • Today

• After I was discharged from the military, it was difficult trying to become a civilian.

  

  Chris Kyle
  • Trying
  • Military

• A man is whole only when he takes into account his shadow as well as himself - and what is a man's shadow but his upright astonishment?

  

  Djuna Barnes
  • Shadow

• I know that my fans want to know who I'm sleeping with, but it's really none of their business.

  

  Diana Ross
  • Business
  • Want
  • Sleep

• We aren't consistent in our treatment of animals.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Animal
  • Treatment
  • Consistent

• Getting out of the way is really important.

  

  Craig Newmark
  • Important
  • Way

• I love arguing. I always say that I'll never win a physical battle, but I can always win a mental battle. I mean, not really, because I never really argue with anyone.

  

  Shailene Woodley
  • Win
  • Battle
  • Mental

• Repeal the Missouri Compromise - repeal all compromises - repeal the Declaration of Independence - repeal all past history, you still can not repeal human nature. It still will be the abundance of man's heart, that slavery extension is wrong; and out of the abundance of his heart, his mouth will continue to speak.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Human Nature
  • Declaration of Independence
  • Missouri Compromise

• I propose,” replied Jack, “that we shall undress ourselves, rub ourselves entirely over with charcoal and grease, so that they shall not recognise us, and dash in and carry the girl off by a coup de main. In which case it will, of course, be neck or nothing, and a tremendous race to the cave, where, if they follow us, we will keep them at bay with our rifles.” “Umph!

  

  R. M. Ballantyne
  • Ourselves
  • Propose
  • Jack

• When I was 8, I got a little toy propeller plane: You could turn it on and the people disappeared from the little windows and stewardesses appeared, and it ran along the ground.

  

  John Travolta
  • People
  • Littles
  • Window

• I’ll project myself into several futures simultaneously, a minor tremor in my hand; I’ll work my way from irony to sincerity in the sinking city, a would-be Whitman of the vulnerable grid.

  

  Ben Lerner
  • Sincerity
  • Irony
  • Tremor

• Of the many things we have done to democracy in the past, the worst has been the indignity of taking it for granted.

  

  Max Lerner
  • Done
  • Past
  • Democracy

• It was only when the giant got halfway down the incline that he suddenly, happily, burst into flame and continued his trip saying, "NO SURVIVORS, NO SURVIVORS!" in a manner that could only indicate deadly sincerity. It was seeing him happily burning and advancing that startled the Brute Squad to screaming. And once that happened, why, everybody panicked and ran.

  

  William Goldman
  • Sincerity
  • Ran
  • Survivor