Movietone Quotes & Sayings

What makes you a man is not the ability to make a child, it's the courage to raise one. — Barack Obama

I believe that movements to suppress wrongs can be carried out under the protection of our flag. — Mary Harris Jones

A happy woman is one who has no cares at all; a cheerful woman is one who has cares but doesn't let them get her down. — Beverly Sills

We don't make bicycles anymore. It's all human relations now. The eggheads sit around trying to figure out new ways for everyone to be happy. Nobody can get fired, no matter what; and if somebody does accidentally make a bicycle, the union accuses us of cruel and inhuman practices and the government confiscates the bicycle for back taxes and gives it to a blind man in Afghanistan. — Kurt Vonnegut

Silence is hereby outlawed. Silence breeds independent thought, which in turn breeds dissent. — Frank Beddor

The power structure understands that Black folks have been hungry for so long, fixing us a plate now that's the same size as theirs would do nothing for our hunger. After all, they're pretty full and fat.
They know we now require a much bigger plate than theirs to quiet the stomach rumblings.
They see us and know what it looks like to be less powerful. They are fighting to never FEEL it. — Darnell Lamont Walker

Cukor is one of my favorite directors. He was a master at directing women. — Pedro Almodovar

It is cruel and insensitive to interpret an affair as a symptom of sickness in the relationship, as it leaves the 'cheated-on' partner - who may already be feeling insecure - to wonder what is wrong with him Many people have sex outside their primary relationships for reasons that have nothing to do with any inadequacy in their partner or in the relationship. — Dossie Easton

Did a swift burst of mental arithmetic, arrived at an answer he liked and — Douglas Adams

What is pain to a man? A privilege! — James Clavell

Seek if you have not found. "You ask and do not receive, because you ask amiss . . ." (James 4:3). If you ask for things from life instead of from God, "you ask amiss"; that is, you ask out of your desire for self-fulfillment. The more you fulfill yourself the less you will seek God. ". . . seek, and you will find . . . ." Get to work - narrow your focus and interests to this one thing. Have you ever sought God with your whole heart, or have you simply given Him a feeble cry after some emotionally painful experience? ". . . seek, [focus,] and you will find . . . . — Oswald Chambers

We made love, and then she threw up. — Sarah Kane

My 6 foot goddess
makes me laugh
the laughter of the mutilated
who still need
love ...
she has saved me
from everything that is
not here — Charles Bukowski

As I've looked into the eyes of street children in Afghanistan desperate for a future other than terrorism, or children in Rwanda hungry for something greater than genocide, I've reached one big conclusion: we belong to one another. And children across the Earth deserve the same hopes and opportunities we give our children here."--Bernard Amadei, civil engineering professor at the University of Colorado and founder of Engineers Without Borders — Bernard Amadei

But memory will forever replay this day in black and white, the slow voice-over pan of Movietone — Richard Powers