David Edelstein Quotes

The movie is a metaphor for the power of delusional hype--a metaphor for itself.

David Edelstein

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• If this be treason, make the most of it!

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Make
  • Most
  • Treason

• I really wanted to be a cartoonist, and I was in 4th or 5th grade and I would bring my drawings in, and I'd look around, and everyone could draw better than me. Everyone. My drawings were just awful. So that's why I had to write.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Me
  • Better
  • Write

• A lot of girls think they have to choose between being the smart geeky type or the beautiful bimbo.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Think
  • Beautiful
  • Smart

• It is a life of FAITH, not of intellect and reason, but a life of knowing Who makes us “go.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Life
  • Faith
  • Reason

• How can you know God if you don't know your big toe?

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • God

• Furthermore, a pattern was beginning to emerge: nutrients from animal-based foods increased tumor development while nutrients from plant-based foods decreased tumor development.

  

  T. Colin Campbell
  • Beginning
  • Animal
  • Plant

• I hate cosmetics companies. They get you addicted to the perfect lipstick or nail polish and then, six months later, they discontinue it. You have to buy your favorite colors like you're storing up for the Apocalypse.

  

  Lisa Kudrow
  • Up
  • Hate
  • Perfect

• Express your admiration for the traits, possessions or accomplishments of your customer. Little things mean a lot.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Mean
  • Accomplishment
  • Admiration

• Today, men and women in uniform ... work so hard on our behalf to protect our freedom (and) our liberty. As they give their best for us, we want to be there for them, ... The good news for returning veterans is that the demand for skilled talent is very strong.

  

  Elaine Chao
  • Good
  • Work
  • Men

• What are wits for unless a man uses them?

  

  Ellis Peters
  • Men
  • Use
  • Wit

• I adopted a pet because I have been wanting one for the longest time. In fact, I am really close to Ravi Dubey's dog Moyo.

  

  Rithvik Dhanjani
  • Time
  • Dog
  • Because

• But the voice goes on, calling us, beckoning us, luring us to think that there might be such a thing as justice, as the world being put to rights, even though we find it so elusive. We're like moths trying to fly to the moon. We all know there's something called justice, but we can't quite get to it.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • World
  • Trying
  • Justice

• I mean, people who watch Jon Stewart's show every night don't think he went far enough, because he couldn't do what he does on his show every night, because it's a different job. The same thing with Chris Rock. He can't come out and do a tossed-salad routine, the way he does on his HBO shows, because this is the Academy Awards.

  

  Bruce Vilanch
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Night

• "I would call him an ordinary man, but, well." Another grin. "Even I am not capable of such delusional self-effacement."

  

  Courtney Milan
  • Capable
  • Ordinary
  • Call

• Oftentimes, when we think of 3D, we think of things coming out of the screen, but actually, you've got this zero, this negative space, what they call the negative space, which is the scene, what's being filmed in the positive space of the audience. As you can have things come out, you can have all of this depth.

  

  Keanu Reeves
  • Space
  • Positive
  • Audience

• I was a comedian in Russia, and I worked on the cruise ships there. I met a lot of Americans, and they were laughing even though I didn't speak their language.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff

• To live a life half dead, a living death.

  

  John Milton
  • Life
  • Live
  • Dead

• The movie is a metaphor for the power of delusional hype--a metaphor for itself.

  

  David Edelstein
  • Metaphor
  • Hype
  • Delusional