(1177 quotes found)
“The motion picture is like a picture of a lady in a half-piece bathing suit. If she wore a few more clothes, you might be intrigued. If she wore no clothes at all, you might be shocked. But the way it is, you are occupied with noticing that her knees are too bony and that her toenails are too large. The modern film tries too hard to be real. Its techniques of illusion are so perfect that it requires no contribution form the audience but a mouthful of popcorn.”
Raymond Chandler
“It operates basically off the vibrations of the throat, with an ear piece. And it also works really good with a gas mask,”
Donald Morgan
“It's just two pieces of paper, ... I don't know what the big deal is.”
William Petersen
“They don't watch programs anymore; they watch pieces of programs.”
Carrie Heeter
“It was the piece of straw that broke the camel's back”
Proverb
“The AOL unit is a critical piece of the puzzle.”
Lanny Baker
“There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start.”
Charles Baudelaire
“Take Five. There's a certain piece that if we don't play, we're in trouble.”
Dave Brubeck
“Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting. A poem may be worked over once it is in being, but may not be worried into being.”
Robert Frost
“I determined that if I was to carve out a piece of reportorial territory for myself it would be [doing] the hard interview, irreverent if necessary, the façade-piercing interview.”
Mike Wallace
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