Gene Fowler Famous Quotes & Sayings
39 Gene Fowler Famous Sayings, Quotes and Quotation.
Love and memory last and will so endure till the game is called because of darkness.— Gene Fowler
Walter Plinge said: "You know she asked me a very silly question Mrs Ogg! It was a silly question any fool knows the answer!"— Terry Pratchett
"Oh, yes," said Nanny. "About houses on fire, I expect ... "
"Yes! What would I take out of our house if it was on fire!"
"I expect you were a good boy and said you'd take your mum," said Nanny.
"No! My mum would take herself!"
"What would you take out then, Walter?" Nanny said.
"The fire!
Whatever one believes to be true either is true or becomes true in one's mind.— Gene Fowler
Psychoanalysts seem to be long on information and short on application.— Gene Fowler
Never thank anybody for anything, except a drink of water in the desert - and then make it brief.— Gene Fowler
Sometimes I think my writing sounds like I walked out of the room and left the typewriter running.— Gene Fowler
Every great crisis of human history is a pass of Thermopylae, and there is always a Leonidas and his three hundred to die in it, if they can not conquer.— George William Curtis
Every man should be allowed to love two cities, his own and San Francisco— Gene Fowler
Perhaps no mightier conflict of mind occurs ever again in a lifetime than that first decision to unseat one's own tooth.— Gene Fowler
News is history shot on the wing.— Gene Fowler
Everyone needs a warm personal enemy or two to keep him free from rust in the movable parts of his mind.— Gene Fowler
Writing is easy. You only need to stare at a blank piece of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.— Gene Fowler
A man who makes a one-dollar profit on his expense account is dishonest. A man who loses five cents on one is a damned fool.— Gene Fowler
Is she still eating her spinach?" Aomame asked. "As much as ever. And with the price of spinach as high as it's been, that's no small expense!" "I've never seen a German shepherd that liked spinach before." "She doesn't know she's a dog." "What does she think she is?" "Well, she seems to think she's a special being that transcends classification." "Superdog?" "Maybe so." "Which is why she likes spinach?" "No, that's another matter. She just likes spinach. Has since she was a pup.— Haruki Murakami
Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves.— Gene Fowler
If they haven't heard it before it's original.— Gene Fowler
It's important to have good tunes, but words are the thing for me.— Gabrielle Aplin
What is success? It is a toy balloon among children armed with pins.— Gene Fowler
Liberty has as many chains as an iron-monger's shop, and as rusty.— Austin O'Malley
A book is never finished; it's abandoned.— Gene Fowler
Why may not the Bible and especially the New Testament be read and taught as a divine revelation in school? Where else can the purest principles of morality be learned so clearly or so perfectly as from the New Testament?— Gene Fowler
It is easier to believe than to doubt.— Gene Fowler
He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled.— Gene Fowler
What is the subject matter of this apparently very personal world? It has been suggested that these shapes and images are underworld characters, the inhabitants of the vast common realm of memories that have gone down below the level of conscious control. It may be they are. The degree of emotional involvement and the amount of free association with the material being photographed would point in that direction.— Aaron Siskind
I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse.— Marlon Brando
The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from.— Gene Fowler
You just have to realize that no matter how delectable that meal looks, there's a chance that you might not get to eat it while it's hot.— Betty Wright
News is history shot on the wing. The huntsmen from the Fourth Estate seek to bag only the peacock or the eagle of the swifting day.— Gene Fowler
Managers help people see themselves as they are; Leaders help people to see themselves better than they are.— Jim Rohn
It is no disgrace to rest a bit.— Gene Fowler
The dawn came - not the flaming sky that promises storm, but a golden dawn of infinite promise. The birds came flying up out of the east in wedge-shaped formation, and the mist lifted in soft wreaths of sun-shot silver. Colour came back to the world. The grass glowed with a green so vivid that it seemed pulsing, like flame, from some hidden fire in the earth, the distant woods took on all the amazing deep crimsons and purples of their winter colouring, the banks were studded with their jewels of lichens and bright moss, and above the wet hedges shone with sun-shot orbs of light.— Elizabeth Goudge
Death is my neighbor now.— Edith Evans
An editor should have a pimp for a brother so he'd have someone to look up to.— Gene Fowler
It's not like you get up in the morning on the first day of shooting and say, 'I'm so smart today I'm going to determine every choice I make from now until a year and a half from now.' So it changes. You gain insights. The movie bucks you.— Robert Schwentke
They that will not be counseled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you on the knuckles.— Gene Fowler
What better reward than to see others excited by your work?— Jean Louis
I drove on, and between the north and southbound lanes a construction crew worked under daylight-bright industrial lamps. I saw them through a gauzy fog of dust and strong light...they wore blood-red vests and hardhats and massive goggles, and as the road sank I saw that the workers were bone thin, with skeletal jaws and long teeth. They labored on platforms over gaping holes in the earth, and among the men, piled atop rickety pallets, lolled babies, piles of them, in ashy cerements. I could not tell whether the crew was excavating or burying them.— Matthew M. Bartlett
Don't be dismayed by the opinions of editors, or critics. They are only the traffic cops of the arts.— Gene Fowler
The girl hurried away, but then Pippi shouted, "Did he have big ears that reached way down to his shoulders?"— Astrid Lindgren
"No," said the girl and turned and came running back in amazement. "You don't mean to say that you have seen a man walk by with such big ears?"
"I have never seen anyone who walks with his ears," said Pippi. "All the people I know walk with their feet.
