Polonsky Polonsky Quotes & Sayings

Twenty years ago I wanted to move to a nice place so our Charley would grow up a nice boy and learn a profession. But instead we live in a jungle, so he can only be a wild animal. D'you think I picked the East Side like Columbus picked America? — Abraham Polonsky

Are human reactions what they've always been, or has a century or more of movies influenced our response to every stimulus — Dean Koontz

I am thrilled to be able to bring my vision of beauty to others who may be inspired by it. — Carol Alt

A holiday is when you celebrate something that's all finished up, that happened a long time ago and now there's nothing left to celebrate but the dead. — Abraham Polonsky

You can't have a great university without a great library. — Joe Paterno

Indians don't last in prison. They weren't born for it like the whites. — Abraham Polonsky

Make me, snow-bitch," she said. "Please don't make her," said Andy. "We'll just wind up with two more hours of paperwork if Henry assaults a teammate. — Seanan McGuire

Do you know what it's like to love and be alone? — Abraham Polonsky

What are you gonna do? Kill me? Everybody dies. — Abraham Polonsky

I want to be a fighter. So fight for something! Not for money. — Abraham Polonsky

Kids win this'n'that every day. Thousands of them. One out of a hundred fights professionally. One out of a thousand's worth watchin', one out of a million's worth coffee and doughnuts. — Abraham Polonsky

It's perversion. Don't you see what it is? It's not natural. To go to great expense for something you want, that's natural. To reach out to take it, that's human, that's natural. But to get your pleasure from not taking, from cheating yourself deliberately like my brother did today, from not getting, from not taking. Don't you see what a black thing that is for a man to do? How it is to hate yourself? — Abraham Polonsky

Sent off, carried off, but never backed off. — David Dunworth

According to my grandmother, I started singing as soon as I began talking. I always wanted to be an entertainer. I knew that from the start. — Vesta Williams

I'll give you my answer calmly and sensibly, my final answer. My final answer is finally no. The answer is no! Absolutely and finally no! Finally and positively no! No! No! No! N - O! — Abraham Polonsky

Laws will not eliminate prejudice from the hearts of human beings. But that is no reason to allow prejudice to continue to be enshrined in our laws to perpetuate injustice through inaction. — Shirley Chisholm

I've since come to understand that the universe operates on the same general equilibrium theory as markets.It never gives you something without making you pay for it somehow. — Gayle Forman

What do you mean "gangsters"? It's business. — Abraham Polonsky

This is Wall Street, and today is important. Because tomorrow, July 4th, I intended to make my first million dollars
an excitingday in a man's life. The enterprise was slightly illegal. — Abraham Polonsky

At some point, your memories, your stories, your adventures, will be the only things you'll have left. — Chuck Palahniuk

Directors are like generals, political dictators, aggressive people ... And everyone in the film is always grateful if you can tell them what to do. — Abraham Polonsky

A man could spend the rest of his life trying to remember what he shouldn't have said. — Abraham Polonsky

The whole world is a personality cult. — Anneli Rufus

Money has no moral opinions. — Abraham Polonsky

First of all, directing is an idea that you have of a total flow of images that are going on, which are incidentally actors, words, and objects in space. It's an idea you have of yourself, like the idea you have of your own personality which finds its best representation in the world in terms of specific flows of imaginary images. That's what directing is. — Abraham Polonsky

If you don't get killed, it's a lucky day for anybody. — Abraham Polonsky

When you look back at the older cartoons, they're very much more observational cartoons. And the cartoon - the people in the cartoons are not making the joke. — Robert Mankoff

It's not the end of the world if I can't get a film job, or if a movie doesn't turn out well - even though I don't like it when that happens. There are other things I enjoy doing, and I involve myself in them. — Viggo Mortensen

I don't take no dive for nobody. Whaddya think I am, a tanker! — Abraham Polonsky

I'll kill you with my own hands rather than let you put the mark of Cain on my brother! — Abraham Polonsky

Today in Germany, everyone is being watched
even the watchers. — Abraham Polonsky

'Who was your mother?' 'Never had none!' said the child, with another grin. 'Never had any mother? What do you mean? Where were you born?' 'Never was born!' 'Do you know who made you?' 'Nobody, as I knows on,' said the child, with a short laugh ... 'I 'spect I grow'd.' — Harriet Beecher Stowe

You must never throw away things that are worth good money. — Abraham Polonsky