Hollywoodland Quotes & Sayings

I have often thought him since, like the steam hammer, that can crush a man or pat an eggshell, in his combination of strength with gentleness — Charles Dickens

H. L. Mencken called it "the one authentic rectum of civilization," but for most people Hollywood was a place of magic. In 1927, the iconic sign on the hillside above the city actually said HOLLYWOODLAND. It had been erected in 1923 to advertise a real estate development and had nothing to do with motion pictures. The letters, each over forty feet high, were in those days also traced out with electric lights. (The LAND was removed in 1949.) — Bill Bryson

Life is a series of decisions that define us. — Sarah J. Schmitt

When you are in love, things make even more sense, he thought. — Paulo Coelho

Dear Readers, This book is my love letter to you. Read hard, always and forever, LK — Laura Kaye

Excerpted From Chapter 18
The most famous sign in the world was only a few hundred yards above me, and the sight of it stopped me in my tracks. The light bulbs surrounding the letters must have been controlled by a timer of some kind because they were off now. But what shocked me was the scale. I was used to seeing the sign from a distance. From this perspective there was no sense of the word HOLLYWOODLAND. All I saw were gigantic letters looming dimly above me in the moonlight like ancient monoliths erected in tribute to the gods of some long-extinct tribe.
A primal feeling of foreboding prickled the hairs on the back of my neck. I could imagine the traveler of an earlier age coming across Stonehenge in the dark and experiencing a similar sensation. — H.P. Oliver

When you're trying to achieve a goal, negative people will just bring you down. Surround yourself with the positive. — Dave Ramsey

In place of dialectics, life had arrived. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

As opposed to coming up with something fantastic and trying to sell it to a studio, now all you have to do is get people to believe what you believe ... — Neil Drumming

Credit card interest payments are the dumbest money of all. — Hill Harper

But the recurrent ambiguity of the American tale of the supernatural reveals both a fascination
with the possibility of numinous experience and a perplexity about whether there was, in fact, anything numinous to be experienced. Writers often delighted in leading readers into, but not out of, the haunted dusk of the borderland. — Howard Kerr

(When I'd asked Mrs. Barbour where the washing machine was, she'd looked at me as if I'd asked for lye and lard to boil up for soap.) — Donna Tartt

Human Language is like a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, when all the time we are longing to move the stars to pity. — Gustave Flaubert

Soon, I will be 'King of all Hollywoodland.' — Joss Whedon