Emerald City Doorman Quotes & Sayings

Michael [Douglas] was just leaving the TV series The Streets of San Francisco and he said, 'Dad, let me try it.' I thought, 'Well, if I couldn't make it ... ' So, I gave it to him and he got the money, the director and the cast. The biggest disappointment for me, I always wanted to play McMurphy. They got a young actor, Jack Nicholson. I thought, 'Oh God. He will be terrible.' Then I saw the picture and, of course, he was great in it! That was my biggest disappointment that turned out to be one of the things I'm most proud of because my son Michael did it. I couldn't do it, but Michael did it. — Kirk Douglas

The Savage nodded, frowning. "You got rid of them. Yes, that's just like you. Getting rid of everything unpleasant instead of learning to put up with it. Whether 'tis better in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows or outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them ... But you don't do either. Neither suffer nor oppose. You just abolish the slings and arrows. It's too easy."
... "What you need," the Savage went on, "is something with tears for a change. Nothing costs enough here. — Aldous Huxley

I recruited a Czech kicker, and during the eye exam, when asked to read the bottom line, the kicker replied, Read it? I know him. — Woody Hayes

The trouble with Nixon is that he's a serious politics junkie. He's totally hooked and like any other junkie, he's a bummer to have around, especially as President. — Hunter S. Thompson

My point is that we much decolonize our minds and re-name and re-define ourselves ... In all respects, culturally, politically, socially, we must re-define ourselves and our lives, in our own terms. — Max Roach

Oh, my poor friend and comrade, you'll suffer yet! — Thomas Hardy

As the Eastern saying, by the sage Hilali, has it, 'one person who understands is worth a hundred who merely obey a custom. — Idries Shah

It's bad enough when married people bore one another, but it's much worse when only one of them bores the other. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

You are an idiot," Tom informed him.
Prophet stared at the duct tape around his wrists. "I have no argument against that at the moment. — S.E. Jakes

All I hear are Satan's hammers and the war drums of hell, thank you. — Alexandra Bracken

If God wants something from me, he would tell me. He wouldn't leave someone else to do this, as if an infinite being were short on time. And he would certainly not leave fallible, sinful humans to deliver an endless plethora of confused and contradictory messages. God would deliver the message himself, directly, to each and every one of us, and with such clarity as the most brilliant being in the universe could accomplish. We would all hear him out and shout "Eureka!" So obvious and well-demonstrated would his message be. It would be spoken to each of us in exactly those terms we would understand. And we would all agree on what that message was. — Richard Carrier

Imagination is the most marvelous, miraculous, inconceivably powerful force the world has ever known. — Napoleon Hill

Takeda stops at the vehicle. 'There is a difference between revenge and redemption.'

"What's the difference?"

Takeda opens the door for him. 'Revenge is an act. Redemption lives solely in the heart. Only when you forgive yourself for what happened will you be able to truly focus. — Jesse Lasky