George S Kaufman Famous Quotes & Sayings
33 George S Kaufman Famous Sayings, Quotes and Quotation.
I understand your new play is full of single entendres.— George S. Kaufman
Yet I have come to distrust book jackets calculated to prick desire like a Bloomingdale's window, as if you could wear what you read.— Lynne Sharon Schwartz
The world yearns. This is its sure gravity: the attraction of bodies. Earth for molten star. Moon for earth. A hand for the orb of a breast. This is its movement too: the motion of desire, of a longing toward.— Alison MacLeod
You too shall know, what it is to love without hope!— Matthew Gregory Lewis
Sometimes I think people get into trouble because they can't say what they want to.— Quentin Blake
If you keep picking a scab it will bleed and never heal. If you keep dragging the pain of the past up, it will never heal.— Leon Brown
instability, the discomfort of the relationship - feed back into the low self-esteem and self-doubt that triggered the over-involvement to start with. The only way out appears to be deeper enmeshment, getting so close to the SOP that those blowups won't happen. Soon the cycle hums, fully in place, with both parties pedaling as fast as they can.— Robert Hemfelt
It is almost irrestible for humans to believe that we have some special relation to the universe, that human life is not just a more-or-less farcical outcome of a chain of accidents reaching back to the first three minutes, but that we were somehow built in from the beginning.— Steven Weinberg
I remember only images, snapshots burned into me, bleeding into each other until I no longer knew the order in which they had happen.— Laure Eve
KIRBY: A man can't give up his business.— George S. Kaufman
GRANDPA: Why not? You've got all the money you need. You can't take it with you.
At dramatic rehearsals, the only author that's better than an absent one is a dead one.— George S. Kaufman
The kind of doctor I want is one who when he's not examining me is home studying medicine.— George S. Kaufman
Grandpa Martin Vanderhoff: Penny, why don't you write a play about Ism-Mania?— George S. Kaufman
Penny Sycamore: Ism-Mania?
Grandpa Martin Vanderhoff: Yeah, sure, you know, Communism, Faschism, Voodoo-ism, everybody's got an -ism these days.
Penny Sycamore: Oh
[laughs]
Penny Sycamore: I thought it was some kind of itch or something.
Grandpa Martin Vanderhoff: Well, it's just as catching. When things go a little bad nowadays, you go out, get yourself an -ism and you're in business.
The genius of the French language, descended from its single Latin stock, has triumphed most in the contrary direction - in simplicity, in unity, in clarity, and in restraint.— Lytton Strachey
I've never had any complaints yet!— George S. Kaufman
When I invite a woman to dinner, I expect her to look at my face. That's the price she has to pay.— George S. Kaufman
The human memory is such a cruel, frustrating thing, the way it just discards things without asking permission, precious things. At least here, in my house, I have control over my memories.— Lisa Jewell
You've heard of people living in a fool's paradise? Well, Leonora has a duplex there.— George S. Kaufman
You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It's just a matter of paying attention to this miracle.— Paulo Coelho
God finally caught his eye.— George S. Kaufman
When I was born I owed twelve dollars.— George S. Kaufman
He conceived himself and his like as perpetually conquering peoples who were perpetually being conquered.— G.K. Chesterton
You can't fool me. There ain't no Sanity Claus!— George S. Kaufman
I know that so many women don't have a choice. They could lose their job if they say, 'I need to leave because I don't have childcare.'— Maya Harris
Lawyers-they get together all day and say to each other, "What can we postpone next?" The only thing they don't postpone, of course, is their bill, which arrives regularly. You've heard about the man who got the bill from his lawyer which said, "For crossing the street to speak to you and discovering it was not you, twelve dollars."— George S. Kaufman
The law. Lady Frances, is an uncertain animal. It has twists and turns that surprise the non-legal mind.— Agatha Christie
Office hours are from 12 to 1 with an hour off for lunch.— George S. Kaufman
Only on the surface, it seems to me. The only true atheists I've ever met were people in revolt. It wasn't enough for them to coldly deny the existence of God - they had to refuse it, like Bakunin: 'Even if God existed, it would be necessary to abolish him.' They were atheists like Kirilov in The Possessed. They rejected God because they wanted to put man in his place. They were humanists, with lofty ideas about human liberty, human dignity. I don't suppose you recognize yourself in this description.— Michel Houellebecq
Satire is what closes on Saturday night.— George S. Kaufman
Epitaph for a dead waiter - God finally caught his eye.— George S. Kaufman
I like terra firma; the more firma, the less terra.— George S. Kaufman
There was laughter in the back of the theater, leading to the belief that someone was telling jokes back there.— George S. Kaufman
(Popular singer Eddie Fisher, appearing on This is Show Business, told Kaufman that women refused to date him because he looked so young.)— George S. Kaufman
Mr. Fisher, on Mount Wilson there is a telescope that can magnify the most distant stars up to twenty-four times the magnification of any previous telescope. This remarkable instrument was unsurpassed in the world of astronomy until the construction of the Mount Palomar telescope, an even more remarkable instrument of magnification. Owing to advances and improvements in optical technology, it is capable of magnifying the stars to four times the magnification and resolution of the Mount Wilson telescope - Mr. Fisher, if you could somehow put the Mount Wilson telescope inside the Mount Palomar telescope, you still wouldn't be able to detect my interest in your problem.
