48 Hrs Quotes & Sayings

No man, proclaimed Donne, is an Island, and he was wrong. If we were not islands, we would be lost, drowned in each other's tragedies. We are insulated (a word that means, literally, remember, made into an island) from the tragedy of others, by our island nature, and by the repetitive shape and form of the stories. The shape does not change: there was a human being who was born, lived, and then, by some means or another, died. There. You may fill in the details from your own experience. As unoriginal as any other tale, as unique as any other life. Lives are snowflakes - forming patterns we have seen before, as like one another as peas in a pod (and have you ever looked at peas in a pod? I mean, really looked at them? There's not a chance you'd mistake one for another, after a minute's close inspection), but still unique. — Neil Gaiman

When I was 13, Eddie Murphy was to me what Chris Tucker was to 13-year-olds when I made 'Rush Hour.' And 'Rush Hour' really came out of the fact that I grew up watching 'Beverly Hills Cop' and '48 Hrs.' — Brett Ratner

The trouble is if you don't spend your life yourself, other people spend it for you. — Peter Shaffer

Trav, if you cross us
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"I know. You'll get me. I'll try not to pee all over myself in terror. — Rachel Caine

Eddie Murphy did '48 Hrs.' because that was the only movie offered to him. And he killed it. Bill Cosby did 'I Spy' because that was the TV show he was offered. But now, there are networks dedicated to comedy, and the Internet ... it's so easy for comedians to not do things that aren't true to them. — Jerrod Carmichael

If we maintain the open-mindedness of children, we challenge fixed ideas and established structures, including our own. We listen to people in other denominations and religions. We don't find demons in those with whom we disagree. We don't cozy up to people who mouth our jargon. If we are open, we rarely resort to either-or: either creation or evolution, liberty or law, sacred or secular, Beethoven or Madonna. We focus on both-and, fully aware that God's truth cannot be imprisoned in a small definition. — Brennan Manning

Some people say the Balkans is just inherently violent. That we have to fight a war every fifty years."
"I hope that's not true", I said. — Sara Novic

The thing about '48 Hrs.' that really isn't thought about much is that's the first film where the black and the white criticize each other. — Nick Nolte

Rarely do we arrive at the summit of truth without running into extremes; we have frequently to exhaust the part of error, and even of folly, before we work our way up to the noble goal of tranquil wisdom. — Friedrich Schiller

The beautiful know they have power, and she had, in her diminutive charm, a certain power of which she was always casually aware. — Anne Rice

The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness. — Joseph Conrad

Eddie made a half-turn in his seat to face her. "So, what did you think of our hosts?"
She chuckled. "I think they could be not-too-distant cousins of the Addams Family."
"With Paul as a fuzzy Uncle Fester," Eddie laughed. — Hunter Shea

He (Sandy Koufax) throws a 'radio ball,' a pitch you hear, but you don't see. — Gene Mauch

I've played a lot of elegance and refinement, so to do something really down and dirty is a great attraction. — Natalie Dormer