Quotes

No matter what you want to say, no matter how well you say it, someone will have already said it and better. That's why using quotes is so great.

Okay, so I took that line from a movie. But it was a good movie. And THAT was a good way to explain quotes. Some people just say things so well you can't not write it down. They're just THAT good.

Every now and then I'll cycle some of my favorites I find. They may be funny, insightful, or a little bit of each. They're all . . . . . just good.

Funny Quotes

• "Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for movie stars." (Fred Allen)
• "Artificial Intelligence: the art of making computers that behave like the ones in movies." (Bill Bulko)

Insightful Quotes

• "The cinema is truth 24 frames per second." (Jean-Luc Godard)
• "Of course all films are surrealist. They are making something that looks like the real world but isn't." (Michael Powell)

Little bit o' both

• "Never judge a book by its movie." (J. W. Eagan)
• "A film is born in my head and I kill it on paper. It is brought back to life by the actors and then killed in the camera. It is then resurrected into a third and final life in the editing room where the dismembered pieces are assembled into their finished form." (Robert Bresson)

If you like quotes, look up these names:

• Ambrose Bierce (and his "Devil's Dictionary")
• Albert Einstein
• Anonymous (This guy says so much . . . kidding, of course)
• T. S. Eliot
• Ralph Waldo Emerson
• W. C. Fields
• Robert Frost
• Friedrich Nietzsche
• George Bernard Shaw
• Mark Twain
• Oscar Wilde

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