Doctor: You wanna see pain? Swing by First Methodist Tuesday nights. See the guys with testicular cancer. That's pain. More Movie: Fight Club [1999] Movie: Fight Club [1999]
It was when reporters became journalists and when objectivity gave way to searching for truth, that an aura of distrust and fear arose around the New Journalist. More Georgie Anne Geyer
Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend. More John Singer Sargent
When the water of a place is bad it is safest to drink none that has not been filtered through either the berry of a grape, or else a tub of malt. These are the most reliable filters yet invented. More Samuel Butler
Do you see difficulties in every opportunity or opportunities in every difficulty? More unknown unknown
For a long time it seemed to me that real life was about to begin, but there was always some obstacle in the way. Something had to be got through first, some unfinished business; time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life. More Bette Howland
The Devil beget darkness; darkness beget ignorance; ignorance beget error and his brethren; error beget free-will and presumption; free-will beget works; works beget forgetfulness of God; forgetfulness beget transgression; transgression beget superstition; superstition beget satisfaction; satisfaction beget the mass-offering; the mass-offering beget the priest; the priest beget unbelief; unbelief beget hypocrisy; hypocrisy beget traffic in offerings for gain; traffic in offerings for gain beget Purgatory; Purgatory beget the annual solemn vigils; the annual vigils beget church-livings; church-livings beget avarice; avarice beget swelling superfluity; swelling superfluity beget fulness; fulness beget rage; rage beget license; license beget empire and domination; domination beget pomp; pomp beget ambition; ambition beget simony; simony beget the pope and his brethren, about the time of the Babylonish captivity. More Martin Luther
A joke, even if it be a lame one, is nowhere so keenly relished or quickly applauded as in a murder trial. More Mark Twain
The farmer works the soil. The agriculturalist works the farmer. More Eugene F. Ware
The world is a fine place worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it. More Ernest Hemingway
The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of his adopted land. More James Baldwin
If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace. More Gaston Bachelard
I was asked to memorize what I did not understand; and, my memory being so good, it refused to be insulted in that manner. More Aleister Crowley
The death penalty is inhumane... whether that person is in a jail or it's bin Laden. More Danny Glover
What I use a lot is Sandy Miser's repetition technique, where you hear your cue and repeat it out loud with your line. It's like active listening. More Eric Roberts
Portugee: My friend we don't sail on no tide.
Paul Shushaldin: Huh?
Portugee: We got no crew.
Paul Shushaldin: But you told me you had a crew!
Portugee: That's for true. This morning I have crew. You see them boys? Best crew in whole world. I steal them from Boston Man. Now, no crew! Boston Man steal them back... I think he is a thief. More Sandy Gallin
The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret. More Oscar Wilde
Humor, a good sense of it, is to Americans what manhood is to Spaniards and we will go to great lengths to prove it. Experiments with laboratory rats have shown that, if one psychologist in the room laughs at something a rat does, all of the other psychologists in the room will laugh equally. Nobody wants to be left holding the joke. More Garrison Keillor
From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war. More Margot Asquith
Mrs. Higgins: Think you can make anymore damn noise, what that damn car of yours?
Stephen: Sorry, Mrs. Higgins.
Mrs. Higgins: And stop trying to look through my dress, and see my nipples. More Movie: The War [1994] Movie: The War [1994]