Quotes, Quotations and Sayings

When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.

I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French.

As an adolescent ... I was convinced that France would have to go through gigantic trials, that the interest of life consisted in one day rendering her some signal service and that I would have the occasion to do so.

Shakespeare, Leonardo Da Vinci, Benjamin Franklin, and Lincoln never saw a movie, heard a radio, or looked at a TV They had loneliness and knew what to do with it. They were not afraid of being lonely because they knew that was when the creative mood in them would mark.

Does this boat go to Europe, France?

The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.

Absence makes the heart grow frantic.

France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.

There is no wisdom like frankness.

Lloyd What are the chances of a guy like you and a girl like me... ending up together

San Francisco, n.: Marcel Proust editing an issue of Penthouse.

Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.

I bought some powdered water, but I don't know what to add?;"Steven Wright

Frank It's the same old story. Boy finds girl, boy loses girl, girl finds boy, boy forgets girl, boy remembers girl, girls dies in a tragic blimp accident over the Orange Bowl on New Year's Day.

The drama's altar isn't on the stage: it is candle-sticked and flowered in the box office. There is the gold, though there be no frankincense or myrrh; and the gospel for the day always The Play will Run for a Year. The Dove of Inspiration, of the desire for inspiration, has flown away from it; and on it's roof, now, the commonplace crow caws candidly.

In an extensive reading of recent books by psychologists, psychoanalysts, psychiatrists, and inspirationalists, I have discovered that they all suffer from one or more of these expression-complexes: italicizing, capitalizing, exclamation-pointing, multiple-interrogating, and itemizing. These are all forms of what the psychos themselves would call, if they faced their condition frankly, Rhetorical-Over-Compensation.

God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often been said by philosophers, that nature is the will of God. And I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.

Might as well be frank, monsieur. It would take a miracle to get you out of Casablanca and the Germans have outlawed miracles.

By the worldly standards of public life, all scholars in their work are of course oddly virtuous. They do not make wild claims, they do not cheat, they do not try to persuade at any cost, they appeal neither to prejudice nor to authority, they are often frank about their ignorance, their disputes are fairly decorous, they do not confuse what is being argued with race, politics, sex or age, they listen patiently to the young and to the old who both know everything. These are the general virtues of scholarship, and they are peculiarly the virtues of science.

Your fortune stateth: You are scrupulously honest, frank, and straightforward. Therefore you have few friends.

Dick, frankly you do not have the war plan... which makes me quite happy.

A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

Yahoo's really happy with Lloyd and Lloyd is 100 percent committed to Yahoo.

If Dracula can't see his reflection in a mirror, how come his hair is always so neatly combed?;"Steven Wright

They laughed at Einstein. They laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

Frank knew that no man had ever crossed the desert on foot and lived to tell about it. So, he decided to get back in his car and keep driving.

Let's blow this duck out of the water and make it fly!" - - Dan and Lloyd, referring to their 18 month effort to start a company.

I remember when the candle shop burned down. Everyone stood around singing 'Happy Birthday-Steven Wright

Why do you see babies at the beach? What have they done to earn a vacation?;"Steven Wright

Why is it a penny for your thoughts, but you have to put your two cents in?;"Steven Wright

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope for advance Orville Wright

If Barbie is so popular, why do we have to buy her friends?;"Stephen Wright

If my theory of relativity proves to be correct, Germany will claim me a German, and France will claim me a citizen of the world. However, if it proves wrong, France will say I

Paranoids are people too; they have their own problems. It's easy to critize, but if everybody hated you, wouldn't you be paranoid?;"Steven Wright

Beanie I have a wife and kids. Do I seem like a happy guy to you, Frank

OK, so what's the speed of dark ?;"Stephen Wright

Ryan tries unsuccessfully to quit smoking during crew season: Ryan: I've got to quit smoking for crew! Lloyd: You know what your problem is? You're looking at this all wrong. See, you're doing crew to make your lungs bigger so you can smoke more!

If you had a million Shakespeares, could they write like a monkey?;"Steven Wright

In America only the successful writer is important, in France all writers are important, in England no writer is important, and in Australia you have to explain what a writer is.

Like dear St. Francis of Assisi I am wedded to Poverty: but in my case the marriage is not a success.

Frankly, I think the chances of having a happy childhood while you're still a kid going through it are pretty slim.

The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse -- as a luxury befitting a young man.

Is "tired old cliche" one?;"Steven Wright

Frankly, I don't mind not being president. I just mind that someone else is.

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

I have a switch in my apartment that doesn't do anything. Every once in a while I turn it on and off. On and off. On and off. One day I got a call from a woman in France who said "Cut it out!

Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort of frantic joy. I accepted everything, I believed everything, without struggle, without suffering, without regret, without false shame. How can one blush for what one adores?

I'm always there to tell people that their life is not that bad. I wish it was easy to follow that advice It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

Le Corbusier was the sort of relentlessly rational intellectual that only France loves wholeheartedly, the logician who flies higher and higher in ever-decreasing circles until, with one last, utterly inevitable induction, he disappears up his own fundamental aperture and emerges in the fourth dimension as a needle-thin umber bird.