Linnington Avenue Quotes & Sayings

People see a Macbeth film. They imagine they have seen Macbeth, and don't want to see it again; so when your Mr. Hackett or somebody comes round to act the play, he finds the house empty. That is what has happened to dozens of good plays whose authors have allowed them to be filmed. It shall not happen to mine if I can help it. — George Bernard Shaw

I like someone who's focused and can tell me what they've done well and not well and who's very open, honest, and self-aware. — Mickey Drexler

Talent's like a baby. Wrap it up in wool and it goes to sleep. — Oscar Levant

The trouble with being a hypochondriac these days is that antibiotics have cured all the good diseases. — Caskie Stinnett

People do not persist in their vices because they are not weary of them, but because they cannot leave them off. It is the nature of vice to leave us no resource but in itself. — William Hazlitt

Who cares how we avoided a war and got a dictator to give up his chemical weapons if we avoided a war and got a dictator to give up his chemical weapons. — Jon Stewart