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De - Pt| Proverbs, aphorisms, quotations (English) | by Linux fortune |
| Best Mistakes In Films In his "Filmgoer's Companion", Mr. Leslie Halliwell helpfully lists four of the cinema's greatest moments which you should get to see if at all possible. In "Carmen Jones", the camera tracks with Dorothy Dandridge down a street; and the entire film crew is reflected in the shop window. In "The Wrong Box", the roofs of Victorian London are emblazoned with television aerials. In "Decameron Nights", Louis Jourdain stands on the deck of his fourteenth century pirate ship; and a white lorry trundles down the hill in the background. In "Viking Queen", set in the times of Boadicea, a wrist watch is clearly visible on one of the leading characters. -- Stephen Pile, "The Book of Heroic Failures" | |
| If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know. -- Louis Armstrong | |
| No Civil War picture ever made a nickel. -- MGM executive Irving Thalberg to Louis B. Mayer about film rights to "Gone With the Wind". Cerf/Navasky, "The Experts Speak" | |
| In the realm of scientific observation, luck is granted only to those who are prepared. - Louis Pasteur | |
| "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by mean of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding." -- Justice Louis O. Brandeis (Olmstead vs. United States) | |
| L'etat c'est moi. [I am the state.] -- Louis XIV | |
| The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding. -- Justice Louis D. Brandeis | |
| Every night my prayers I say, And get my dinner every day; And every day that I've been good, I get an orange after food. The child that is not clean and neat, With lots of toys and things to eat, He is a naughty child, I'm sure-- Or else his dear papa is poor. -- Robert Louis Stevenson | |
| I do not care if half the league strikes. Those who do will encounter quick retribution. All will be suspended, and I don't care if it wrecks the National League for five years. This is the United States of America and one citizen has as much right to play as another. -- Ford Frick, National League President, reacting to a threatened strike by some Cardinal players in 1947 if Jackie Robinson took the field against St. Louis. The Cardinals backed down and played. | |
| A friend is a present you give yourself. -- Robert Louis Stevenson | |
| No man is useless who has a friend, and if we are loved we are indispensable. -- Robert Louis Stevenson | |
| There is a certain frame of mind to which a cemetery is, if not an antidote, at least an alleviation. If you are in a fit of the blues, go nowhere else. --Robert Louis Stevenson: Immortelles | |
| If you aren't rich you should always look useful. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine | |
| Our business in life is not to succeed but to continue to fail in high spirits. -- Robert Louis Stevenson | |
