Oldest Movie Quotes & Sayings

It is the supreme proof of a man being prosaic that he always insists on poetry being poetical. — G.K. Chesterton

A revolution is not an event. It's a process. And it takes its time. — Bassem Youssef

When you feel least interested in following the Way which you have entered, this may be the time when it is most appropriate for you. — Idries Shah

Two things mania did were to keep you up all night and to enable nonstop sex: pretty much the definition of college. — Jeffrey Eugenides

No one is ignorant that there are two avenues by which opinions are received into the soul, which are its two principal powers: the understanding and the will. — Blaise Pascal

To me, the whole process of being a brush stroke in someone else's painting is a little difficult — Madonna Ciccone

The whole purpose of existence is to bring love into existence where it is needed. — Barry Long

Nature was more merciful than men, providing for those who suffered great pain such blessedness as fainting; but men were cruel and brought their victims out of faints that the pain might start again. (On being tortured/The Tower.) — Jean Plaidy

I turned down a movie this summer because it was nine weeks in Vancouver and my oldest daughter is 14. I've got four more summers with her. I'm not giving away nine weeks of her summer to go do a silly movie. — Jeff Foxworthy

I used to live in Los Angeles, but I didn't want my kids to grow up in the thick of the obsession with movie-making. There's a lot of sensationalism and superficiality. I wanted to take my kids out of that and raise 'em up elsewhere, and I wanted to stop being preoccupied with whether my star is on the rise or the descent. I can't imagine having a much greater life, and I don't want to be preoccupied with things that don't matter. But of course, ironically, my two oldest daughters have decided that they're going to be actresses. — Woody Harrelson

Beauty is rarely soft or consolatory. Quite the contrary. Genuine beauty is always quite alarming. — Donna Tartt

As soon as I finished the first book, I wrote a second, which I hope to sell this year, and I have just about finished the third book in the series. Two more are already outlined. I'm in this for the long haul. — Richard Helms

I have this fantasy that the second movie would begin with a brief statement by all of the young actors who had played the children in the first movie, explaining how it had ruined their lives, so we would catch up with Emily Browning drinking heavily in the back of a burlesque bar, and maybe Liam Aiken would be living underneath a bridge, and then instead of the twins who played Sunny, we would just try to find the oldest woman in the world, and get an interview with her sitting in a trailer park. — Daniel Handler