Original Dragnet Quotes & Sayings

'Dragnet' (the 1951 original, transferred nearly intact from radio) served as a veritable template for all cop shows to come. — Tom Shales

James Brown is important because he decorates the clock correctly and he's good with lower mathematics. Don't get me wrong - he's good. — Captain Beefheart

Hurt no more, fear no more, cry no more. — Carol Brearley

You get inspiration from craziest places. It's just about being creative. You gotta step outside that box, you know what I'm saying, to reach the people. You never know who can feel it; who it can connect to. — Nayvadius Cash

The average man," explained the late Dr. Ernst Jokl, "loses fifty percent of his muscle mass between the ages of eighteen and sixty-five. — Arnold Schwarzenegger

I think of novels as houses. You live in them over the course of a long period, both as a reader and as a writer. — Nicole Krauss

If Steven Spielberg brought me a movie four hours long and said, 'It has to go out this way,' I guarantee you that's the way it would go out. — Sidney Sheinberg

Good acts are like good poems. One may easily get their drift, but they are not rationally understood. — Albert Einstein

Oh Jesse, paint you pictures, 'bout how it's gonna be.
By now I should know better, your dreams are never free.
But tell me all about, our little trailer by the sea.
Oh Jesse, you can always sell any dream to me. — Joshua Kadison

I sometimes wonder ... if the land is not destroying the people who inhabit it as the people who inhabit it are destroying the land. A magic continent, a Peculiar Treasure, stuffed with riches, millions in it are starving in the midst of plenty. — Edna Ferber

The best of seers is he who guesses well. — Euripides

This was about getting inside her body, then her mind, before unlocking the chastity belt that was her heart, to steal the soul inside. — Lindsay J. Pryor

The president of Goodwill Industries made $800,000 a year. — Larry Brooks

If someone wants to be a part of your life, they'll be there. So don't bother saving a spot for someone who won't make an effort to stay. — Michael Cera

Religious truth is captive in a small number of little manuscripts which guard the common treasures, instead of expanding them. Let us break the seal which binds these holy things; let us give wings to truth that it may fly with the Word, no longer prepared at vast expense, but multitudes everlastingly by a machine which never wearies to every soul which enters life. — Johannes Gutenberg

I wish I had a little more ambition. But then what would I do? Turn down more roles with more vehemence? Me no likey worky. — Ellen Barkin