“For not many men, the proverb saith, can love a friend whom fortune prospereth unenvying.”
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Sad Quotes — page 198 of 475
“It would be my guess that Madonna is not a very happy woman. From my own experience, having gone through persona changes like that, that kind of clawing need to be the center of attention is not a pleasant place to be.”
“Think of the old cliché about ‘the mind being an excellent servant but a terrible master.’ This, like many clichés, so lame and unexciting on the surface, actually expresses a great and terrible truth. It is not the least bit coincidental that adults who commit suicide with firearms almost always shoot themselves in: the head.”
“This diagnosis can be done in about two lines. It doesn't engage anybody.”
“You have to be deviant if you're going to do anything new.”
“Marilyn Monroe was taken advantage of by most of the men that knew her, including Frank Sinatra and Joe DiMaggio, whom I also knew very well.”
“The worst lies of all are the ones we tell ourselves. They are the most damaging.”
“So many comics have such low self-esteem.”
“I'm not the classic type - fair skin, very beautiful women of a classic type, I'm talking about now.”
“But I thought, I've just got to check out Hollywood, so I sent out pictures and resumes.”
“Many scientists think that philosophy has no place, so for me it's a sad time because the role of reflection, contemplation, meditation, self-inquiry, insight, intuition, imagination, creativity, free will, is in a way not given any importance, which is the domain of philosophers.”
“[On Marilyn Monroe:] I think my response to her death was the common one: it came to me with the impact of a personal deprivation but I also felt it as I might a catastrophe in history or in nature; there was less in life, there was less of life, because she had ceased to exist. In her loss life itself had been injured.”
“Dreams have only the pigmentation of fact.”
“The first ten million years were the worst," said Marvin, "and the second ten million years, they were the worst too. The third ten million years I didn't enjoy at all. After that I went into a bit of a decline.”
“He shifted his weight from foot to foot, but it was equally uncomfortable on each.”
“My capacity for happiness," he added, "you could fit into a matchbox without taking out the matches first”
“Blame the city I'm a product of it”
“It wasn't like a "I know I wanted to do this," I was sort of just - I was five and my dad kinda said hey, you wanna be an actor and I said sure.”
“I used to think that once a writer became a man of letters, if only for a half hour, he was done for. And here I am now, at the very moment of such an odious, though respectable, danger.”
“The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities ... We pay for a single fighter with a half million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people.”