Patriotic Movie Quotes & Sayings

It is precisely in relationships of intimacy that your craziness (and mine) will be hardest to conceal. — Stephanie Dowrick

I hope that by going to visit the pope I have enabled everybody to see that the words Catholic and Protestant, as ordinarily used, are completely out of date. They are almost always used now purely for propaganda purposes. That is why so much trouble is caused by them. — Geoffrey Fisher

When forced to work within a strict framework, the imagination is taxed to its utmost and will produce its richest ideas. Given total freedom, the work is likely to sprawl. — T. S. Eliot

America hadn't really been suited for its long and tiresome role as the Last Superpower, the World's Policeman. As a patriotic American, Oscar was quite content to watch other people's military coming home in boxes for a while. The American national character wasn't suited for global police duties. It never had been. Tidy and meticulous people such as the Swiss and the Swedes were the types who made good cops. America was far better suited to be the World's Movie Star. The world's tequila-addled pro-league bowler. The world's acerbic, bipolar stand-up comedian. Anything but a somber and tedious nation of socially responsible centurions. — Bruce Sterling

Any nitwit can understand computers, and many do. — Ted Nelson

Oh God, let me not be cured of love, but let my passion grow! Let me love for love's sake! — Diane Wolkstein

EARTH comprises distances, great and small; danger and security; open ground and narrow passes; the chances of life and death. — Sun Tzu

We're a nation of celebrity and hero worshipers, so much so that we make heroes out of those who aren't, such as John Wayne: a patriotic, red-blooded, two-fisted American who spent the Second World War in the trenches on the movie lots of Hollywood. — Vincent Bugliosi

With the Michael Moore movie, certain conservative talk show hosts call him un-American. Him and anybody else who says anything about the war ... To question your country's policy, especially in a war that kills people, is definitely not un-American. It's probably the most patriotic thing you can do. — John Fogerty

The greatest predictor of musical success is the quality and the quantity of practice time. — Michael Griffin