Notable quotes, excerpts, and profound lines.

[WT Sharpe]

I still remember the day I updated my old Packard Bell from 3 to 18K. I thought I really had something, then!

[Stitchawl]

"Some wish to live within the sound of a chapel bell; I wish to run a rescue
mission within a yard of hell." C.T. Studd


Stitchawl

[WT Sharpe]

Originally Posted by Stitchawl

"Some wish to live within the sound of a chapel bell; I wish to run a rescue
mission within a yard of hell." C.T. Studd


Stitchawl

He put his money where his mouth was, you have to give him that!

[Stitchawl]

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

He put his money where his mouth was, you have to give him that!

Oh yes. Regardless of his message, you've got to recognize his actions. But I'd like to believe that this is true of most of us ex-pats. That's why we are where we are.


Stitchawl

[WT Sharpe]

.....Morality will doubtless at no distant date do away with war, as it has abolished human sacrifice, slavery, blood feuds, head hunting and cannibalism.
..........— Max Nordau (né Sudfeld) (1849-1923), German writer, physician. Morals and the Evolution of Man (1922), Chapter VII: Morality and Progress.

[FlorenceArt]

Slavery? Slavery is not done away with. Neither are blood feuds.

[WT Sharpe]

I'm hoping that his optimism will one day be revealed to be something more than wishful thinking. It's possible.

[WT Sharpe]

.....It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.
..........— Robert Benchley (1889-1945), American humorist. Quoted by his son and biographer Nathaniel Benchley in Robert Benchley: A Biography (1955).

[kennyc]

Good one. I can identify....well, except for the famous part...

[WT Sharpe]

.....He jests at scars, that never felt a wound.
..........— William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), English poet and playwright. Romeo and Juliet (probably written between 1591 and 1596), Act ii. Sc. 2.

[BenG]

Okay.. I want to tell you something.. when the Jaws die, nobody cry.. when my Kong die, everybody cry. Everybody love my Kong.. kids, women, intellectuals, all love my Kong.

- film producer Dino DeLaurentis (RIP),
in answer to Tom Snyder's question, "Mr. De Laurentiis, a few members of the Hollywood press have said that with all the money you spent on 'King Kong', you could have made twenty good movies instead. Some reporters have called you everything from a 'toy commercial maker' to a ruthless 'monkey pimp'. How, sir, do you answer these charges?

[kennyc]

"The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers."
―Leia Organa, to Wilhuff Tarkin )Star Wars

[Sparrow]

Originally Posted by BenG

... film producer Dino DeLaurentis (RIP),
in answer to Tom Snyder's question, "Mr. De Laurentiis, a few members of the Hollywood press have said that with all the money you spent on 'King Kong', you could have made twenty good movies instead. ..

Reminded of Lew Grade commenting on his expensive film flop, "Raise the Titanic" - "It would have been cheaper to lower the Atlantic."

[WT Sharpe]

Originally Posted by Sparrow

Reminded of Lew Grade commenting on his expensive film flop, "Raise the Titanic" - "It would have been cheaper to lower the Atlantic."

[WT Sharpe]

.....Well, it only proves what they always say—give the public something they want to see, and they'll come out for it.
..........— Richard "Red" Skelton (1913-1997), American actor and comedian. Commenting (March 2, 1958) on the crowds attending the funeral of Harry Cohn. Quoted in Bob Thomas, King Cohn (1967).