155 quotes
A prudent man does not open an umbrella for one drop of rain.
Madness in the Family (1988)
Many friendships are swift and accidental, the result of a chance meeting, followed by a permanent separation.
The Bicycle Rider In Beverly Hills (1952)
Jim Dandy waves his stick over and around about the rock in a meaningless-meaningful way.
Jim Dandy : Fat Man in a Famine (1947)
The only thing I can talk about is the cold because it is the only thing going on today.
The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze (1934)
To remember something or to invent something, it comes to the same thing.
Obituaries (1979)
Each person belongs to the environment, in his own person, as himself.
At his best, things do not happen to the artist; he happens to them.
The Bicycle Rider In Beverly Hills (1952)
Before the cat tastes the fish, his whiskers must feel the head.
Madness in the Family (1988)
I care so much about everything that I care about nothing.
My Heart's in the Highlands (1939)
Illness must be considered to be as natural as health.
The Bicycle Rider In Beverly Hills (1952)
You write a hit play the same way you write a flop.
My Heart's in the Highlands (1939)
I have a faint idea what it is like to be alive.
Seventy Thousand Assyrians (1934)
My work has always been the product of my time.
Something About a Soldier (1940)
I am enormously wise and abysmally ignorant.
My Heart's in the Highlands (1939)
One of us is obviously mistaken.
Cowards are nice, they're interesting, they're gentle, they wouldn't think of shooting down people in a parade from a tower. They want to live, so they can see their kids. They're very brave.
Madness in the Family (1988)
It is better to be a good human being than to be a bad one. It is just naturally better.
My Heart's in the Highlands (1939)
He paints for the blind, and we are the blind, and he lets us see for sure what we saw long ago but weren't sure we saw.
I Used to Believe I Had Forever — Now I'm Not So Sure (1968)
Art and politics must move closer together. Reflection and action must be equally valid in good men if history is not to take one course and art an other.
Something About a Soldier (1940)
I found many men to whom I felt deeply grateful … but the first man to whom I felt definitely related was George Bernard Shaw.