9 quotes
“Mr. Jones, has it ever occurred to you, the world being what it is, that women sometimes prefer not to appear too bright?”
Starman Jones (1953)
Everybody has a skeleton in the closet; the thing is to keep ’em there and not at the feast.
Starman Jones (1953)
Like searching at midnight in a dark cellar for a black cat that isn’t there.
Starman Jones (1953)
Oh Max, you large lout, you arouse the eternal maternal in me.
Starman Jones (1953)
A distance “as the crow flies” is significant only to crows.
Starman Jones (1953)
Sic transit gloria mundi—Tuesday is usually worse.
Starman Jones (1953)
But as grandpop always said, there are just three ways to get ahead; sweat and genius, getting born into the right family, or marrying into it.
Starman Jones (1953)
“I guess I don’t understand women.”
“That’s an understatement.”
Starman Jones (1953)
Max opened his mouth, closed it, opened it again. “No.”
“Speak louder. You used a word I don’t understand.”
Starman Jones (1953)