Matinees Movies Quotes & Sayings

I just went to see too many movies and I sat in too many dark matinees watching those old serials. — Sam Elliott

You know, bicycling isn't just a matter of balance," I said. "it's a matter of faith. You can keep upright only by moving forward. You have to have your eyes on the goal, not the ground. I'm going to call that the Bicyclist's Philosophy of Life. — Susan Vreeland

We of the craft (poets) are all crazy. — George Gordon Byron

If you think a caregiver has an active substance abuse problem, that person should never be entrusted with your child. — Emily Yoffe

Our efforts in chess attain only a hundredth of one percent of their rightful result ... Our education, in all domains of endeavour, is frightfully wasteful of time and values. — Emanuel Lasker

In my grammar school years back in the 1920s I used my ten-cents-a-week allowance for Saturday matinees of Douglas Fairbanks movies. All that swashbuckling and leaping about in the midst of the sails of ships! — Beverly Cleary

You got the good heart. Underneath all the other stuff. Good heart is eighty-five percent of everything in life.' ...
'What is the other fifteen percent?' Nat said. 'Just out of curiosity?'
'Politeness,' Mr. Jones said without hesitation. 'And keeping a level head. — Michael Chabon

It was too late - everything was too late. For years now he had dreamed the world away, basing his decisions upon emotions unstable as water. — F Scott Fitzgerald

How're you supposed to get one on their own to ask them?" "Lasso one?" Ron suggested. — J.K. Rowling

Life has no romance without risk. — Sarah Doherty

There needs to be nationalist and republican confidence in unionism. — Gerry Adams

Mother is the name for God on the lips and hearts of all children. — Mark Matthews

Love is a power too strong to be overcome by anything but flight. — Miguel De Cervantes

The other two things are ... well, I had a huge appetite for old black and white movies on BBC 2. At the weekends they used to run matinees, and the more romantic the better. — Ewan McGregor

You are not your thoughts, and you are not the product of your thoughts. — Alan Finger

After five years in Ferrari, being second all the time, I think it was enough for me. — Fernando Alonso

There were no horror movies or horror books to speak of in the '40s. I picked the '50s because that pretty well spans my life as an appreciator - as somebody who's been involved with this mass cult of horror, from radio and movies and Saturday matinees and books. In the '40s there really wasn't that much. People don't want to read about horrible things in horrible times. So, in the '40s, there was Val Lutin with The Cat People and The Curse of the Cat People and there wasn't much else. — Stephen King

In New York alone, there was an average of more than 300 campus fires per year between 1997 and 2000, with roughly 160 of them annually in dormitories. — Vito Fossella

What daughter thinks of her parents in flagrante delicto? Yet, my mother, even after years with him, dropped hints such as, 'You know, your father enjoys his matinees.' I never even saw them go to the movies together. What could she mean? All those afternoons, I thought she was upstairs listening to La Traviata, and those high notes apparently were not coming from the radio. — Joy Behar