Odets Clifford Quotes & Sayings

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out. — Clifford Odets

Yeah, the majority of Brit+Co users are women, but DIY? You see kids DIY, adult men geeking out hardcore with anything related to woodworking and all these cool new technologies, metalwork, leatherworking, concrete making. Everyone has a passion. I truly believe it's in our DNA literally to build things. — Brit Morin

American naturalism is what my indulgent actor side loves: a bit of Tennessee Williams, a bit of Clifford Odets, August Wilson - I would just love to tackle some of that. — Emilia Clarke

You make me feel too human, Joe. All I want is peace and quiet, not love. I'm a tired old lady, Joe, and I don't mind being what you call "half dead." In fact it's what I like. The twice I was in love I took an awful beating and I don't want it again! I want you to stop it! Don't devil me, Joe. I beg you, don't devil me ... — Clifford Odets

Life shouldn't be printed on dollar bills. — Clifford Odets

Music is the great cheer-up in the language of all countries. — Clifford Odets

There are two kinds of marriages - where the husband quotes the wife and where the wife quotes the husband. — Clifford Odets

But I did it! That's the thing - I did it! What will my father say when he hears I murdered a man? Lorna, I see what I did. I murdered myself, too! I've been running around in circles. Now I'm smashed! — Clifford Odets

One of these was Harry Hay, a young actor and communist who had been performing in Clifford Odets' play on unionization, Waiting for Lefty, at the Hollywood Guild Theatre. Hay would later become father of the gay rights movement in America, but he was hired to play the organ for the OTO's Gnostic Mass, having been drawn to the temple through his friendship with Regina Kahl. — George Pendle

I hadn't even dreamed of getting another Academy Award, and there I was unhappy in my private life and miserable, i remember Clifford Odets drove me three times around the Biltmore, where the Oscars were given out, because I was so full of tears. — Anna Held

There are 43,000 minutes in a month - can't you give me five? — Clifford Odets

What do you want from me? Revenge? Sorry - we're all out of revenge today! — Clifford Odets

As an actor, to go and see those shows - great plays like 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' and Clifford Odets's 'Golden Boy' - it's so exhilarating. I'd personally love to perform the role of Jerry in Edward Albee's 'The Zoo Story.' He's a transient, lost soul, and an example of humanity at its rawest. — Keegan Allen

If I begin writing a poem that means I'm intrigued in some way by whatever it's about and that if I'm not trying to find something new and pushing the envelope in the poem I can't expect my reader to be particularly excited about it either. — Rita Dove

Sex - the poor man's polo. — Clifford Odets

Still people want to topple [Bashar] Assad. And then there will be chaos, and I think ISIS will then be in charge of Syria. — Rand Paul

Sex is the poor man's polo. — Clifford Odets

Be observing constantly. Stay open-minded. Be eager to learn and improve. — John Wooden

One night some short weeks ago, for the first time in her not always happy life, Marilyn Monroe's soul sat down alone to a quiet supper from which it did not rise. — Clifford Odets

A lot of people have a lot of talent. What people don't have is the will to work hard enough to develop that talent fully. — Julie Foucher

People don't rise from nothing, — Malcolm Gladwell

I feel like the wrath of God. You like that boy, don't you? I love him, Tom. — Clifford Odets

You 're too sufficient by yourself ... too inside yourself — Clifford Odets

Imagine, if you will, a great reservoir, out of which lead innumerable small rivulets or channels. At its farther end each channel opens out into a small fountain. This fountain is not only being continually filled and replenished from the reservoir but is itself a radiating center whence it gives out in all directions that which it receives, so that all who come within its radius are refreshed and blessed. 41. This is our relation with God. Each one of us is a radiating center. Each one, no matter how small or ignorant, is the little fountain at the far end of a channel, the other end of which leads out from all there is in God. This fountain represents the individuality, as separate from the great reservoir--God--and yet as one with Him, and without Him we are nothing. — H. Emilie Cady

Mr President, the president is dead. — Clifford Odets

It's the Twentieth Century ... no more miracles. — Clifford Odets

It seems to happen sudden - a fighter gets good. He gets easy and graceful. He learns how to save himself - no energy wasted ... he slips and slides - he travels with the punch ... Oh, sure, I like the way you're shaping up. — Clifford Odets

The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations. — David M. Friedman

If they tell you that she died of sleeping pills you must know that she died of a wasting grief, of a slow bleeding at the soul. — Clifford Odets