Ken Adam Quotes

I'm an incurable romantic, and Casablanca's one of the most romantic pictures I've ever seen - the combination of Bogart and Bergman is just magical.

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• Most of the producers don't know what they do. The misconception of the producers' function is really not a misconception. Most producers don't do a very good job.

  

  Irwin Winkler
  • Good
  • Job
  • Know

• Everybody in the Middle East wants to explain why they're right.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Why
  • Middle
  • East

• If you needed to borrow a cup of sugar, you knocked on your neighbour's door.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • You
  • Door
  • Sugar

• I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didn't want to see my kids do the same thing.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Kids
  • Addict
  • Alcoholic

• My most noticeable physical trait is, hands down, my hair. It's big, unruly and curly, and you can spot it from a mile away... literally.

  

  Becca Fitzpatrick
  • Hair
  • Hands
  • Down

• There's no way you can predict what is going to happen in six months or two years in most businesses, and certainly not for businesses that are growing at the rate that we have grown.

  

  Barry Diller
  • You
  • Growing
  • Years

• Nothing can make you more humble than pain.

  

  Larry Flynt
  • You
  • Pain
  • Humble

• I have short-term memory loss. I know that some of the memories of the Super Bowl championships are fading.

  

  Pat Bowlen
  • Memories
  • Memory
  • Loss

• If I bring up political power, personal power, it sounds like they're my terms, and they're not.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Up
  • Power
  • Political

• If the only ideas you had were your own, you'd be very limited.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • You
  • Ideas
  • Limited

• Back in those days intimidation was the greatest tool the drill instructor had. Without that tool, he would not have had control.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • Control
  • Back
  • Greatest

• The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.

  

  Harper Lee
  • World
  • Book
  • Think

• In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Thinking
  • Independent

• I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.

  

  Kate Mulgrew
  • Life
  • Rich
  • Personal

• 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

• The amygdala plays a crucial role in processing fear, and minus her two amygdalae, S.M. became unflappable. Studies of her are actually a hoot to read, since they basically consist of scientists concocting ever-more-elaborate ways of trying to scare her.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Fear
  • Role
  • Plays

• The minimum wage was due for an increase, but it was important that we offset its cost to small businesses.

  

  J. D. Hayworth
  • Important
  • Small
  • Wage

• I grew up during the Revolution of Iran and the war between Iran and Iraq. The things that I saw. The impact. How it changes you. How it changes the way you look at the world.

  

  Navid Negahban
  • Up
  • World
  • War

• I didn't watch a lot of TV growing up; I watched more films.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Growing Up

• Once you start trying to sell creativity, you're always going to run into the problem that the people selling it aren't as creative as the people making it, and the people making it don't know how to talk business with the people trying to sell it.

  

  Dave Pirner
  • People
  • Trying
  • Business

• Anything more low, obscene, feculent, the manifold heaving's of history have not cast up. We shall come to the worship of onions, cats and things vermiculite.

  

  Rufus Choate
  • Cat
  • Worship
  • Obscene

• Being single, I thought would be fun, but it is terribly boring. And I am a romantic, but only when I am in love. I can't force it otherwise.

  Jacqueline Fernandez
  • Fun
  • Single
  • Romantic

• Why does the rain make us feel so romantic and strange? Maybe its the fact that we are unnatural spectators of it, from inside our homes, and it is a reminder that we have the power to live our whole lives like this, if we choose. Its not the smell of fertile ground kicked up by raindrops, or the slick leaves, or the way we must amplify our voices to be heard over this larger presence. Its the power of the rooftop that makes us want to fuck under it.

  

  Amelia Gray
  • Feel
  • Romantic
  • Rain

• I'm an incurable romantic, and Casablanca's one of the most romantic pictures I've ever seen - the combination of Bogart and Bergman is just magical.

  

  Ken Adam
  • Romantic