“The human figure is coming back into fashion in painting, and what are all those poor [expletives deleted] going to do now? They never learned how to draw.” –Thomas Hart Benton, referring to painters from the Abstract Expressionist movement, via Robert Wernick
Tag: quotable
Oct 09
Quotable: Ronald Reagan
“Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.”
Sep 24
Quotable: General Sternwood from The Big Sleep
“Hum, nice state of affairs when a man has to indulge his vices by proxy.” I thought of this as I brought in donuts for the guys this morning.
Mar 01
Quotable: Scene 24
“…and the music that we play are the oldies of today and we think those kids are strange….”
Jan 07
Quotable: G. K. Chesterton
“Oscar Wilde said that sunsets were not valued because we could not pay for sunsets. But Oscar Wilde was wrong; we can pay for sunsets. We can pay for them by not being Oscar Wilde.”
Sep 11
Quotable: Ray Bradbury
“It affects us only one way: We’re angry as [expletive deleted]. And we have to find these people and kill them. It’s very simple, you can’t let them get away with this. This is a terrible, terrible thing they’ve done.” –Ray Bradbury in the Chicago Tribune, September 12, 2001.
May 02
Quotable: Peter Lorre
“Do you think we should drive a stake through his heart just in case?” Said to Vincent Price at Bela Lugosi’s funeral.
Mar 27
8 Cardinal Virtues of George Washington Carver
The world is a better place thanks to George Washington Carver, and not just for his brilliant invention of peanut butter. The following is excerpted from a thank-you he wrote to the members of his senior class at the Tuskegee Institute: “…it is needless for me to keep saying, I hope, except for emphasis, that …
