A great man is only proclaimed by his son.
RAYMOND SANT It is not what is said but who said it
RAYMOND SANT The musical intrument is always right, only the musician may be at fault.
RAYMOND SANT Do not count the instrument but the one behind it
RAYMOND SANT The true reader is the one, who will carry the book nearly everywhere he goes, eager to finish it, b...
RAYMOND SANT Were there is a crowd there is a show
RAYMOND SANT Bad faith plastered, among others, in the vague arguments of postponement of the divorce Bill, shoul...
ALFRED SANT Claiming that some matters are purely political while others are moral and that, therefore, they mer...
ALFRED SANT “Tell her she's beautiful, not hot, remind her the good things she's done, not her mistakes, hug h...
ALFRED SANT The best and brightest among politicians could delegate their power and vision to others who operate...
ALFRED SANT This can be done under existing parliamentary procedures with due respect for the beliefs and dignit...
ALFRED SANT That was when I realised a sad but incontrovertible truth: I was a geek, and there was no getting ar...
SHARON SANT I don’t know why Kate was trying to impress him, as far as I could see the guy had all the allure ...
SHARON SANT We obtain the property for our investor, and then do all the work of getting a qualified tenant thro...
JASON SANT After a period of financial difficulty, people often find themselves with income, savings for a down...
JASON SANT We regularly help people with poor credit find both the home they need and the credit repair assista...
JASON SANT Simplicity, that is what we offer. We are experts at seller financing through lease options. We put ...
JASON SANT There are many people who know there is money to be made in real estate, but they just do not have t...
JASON SANT I was once a shameless, full-time dope fiend.
GUS VAN SANT The area of teenage life is not necessarily rarefied; we've all gone through that period. It'...
GUS VAN SANT My art teacher in junior high was a very out gay man and a mentor to me.
GUS VAN SANT Gay marriage is the last bastion of, to me... as a legal, ceremonial, sentimental and religious side...
GUS VAN SANT I don't usually direct actors in the classic sense of that word. Instead, I try to remind the ch...
GUS VAN SANT My art teacher in junior high was a very out gay man and a mentor to me. He would tell us about Gree...
GUS VAN SANT Yeah, Kubrick's a big influence. In something like 'A Clockwork Orange,' he is trying to...
GUS VAN SANT There's a lot of films that have relatively rigid road maps because they have a script and other...
GUS VAN SANT If I'm diagnosed with cancer I might become despondent, but someone young might not, and they mi...
GUS VAN SANT I have my ideas of what a good documentary is, but drama is a different animal because you're ar...
GUS VAN SANT You're following your track, the story, your only plan, your map for the audience, and all the o...
GUS VAN SANT Free time keeps me going.
GUS VAN SANT If you don't have the story and the unfolding of the trajectory of the saga, it's like getting in a ...
GUS VAN SANT I don't think American independent films have ever really been particularly experimental, except...
GUS VAN SANT The media has gone through lots of things that make it a less foreign thing to have your lead charac...
GUS VAN SANT With 'Good Will Hunting,' Miramax made certain the recruited audience wasn't expecting t...
GUS VAN SANT Modern-day cinema takes the form of a sermon. You don't get to think, you only get to receive in...
GUS VAN SANT The rules of suspense are that you do know, and you just don't know when. In the Hitchcock rules...
GUS VAN SANT It was instantaneous. We felt it at once. Here was Jamal.
GUS VAN SANT I'm thinking of remaking Psycho again. Doing a third remake. The idea this time is to really change ...
GUS VAN SANT You could easily find combative moments in Kurt's life, and there are places in the film where thing...
GUS VAN SANT to study a long silence.
GUS VAN SANT When I was a kid, I looked up to River. He might have had something to do with why I became an actor...
GUS VAN SANT Death Valley is really wide-open - it's bigger than Rhode Island - and it's less a part of C...
GUS VAN SANT I'm thinking of remaking 'Psycho' again. Doing a third remake. The idea this time is to ...
GUS VAN SANT Usually, when I read something, I'm looking for the story first. And then, when I re-read it, I ...
GUS VAN SANT I think that what I'm attracted to is people who are wild. But the self-destructive side comes o...
GUS VAN SANT The reason I know about 'Tomb Raider' is from when I was researching 'Elephant.' It ...
GUS VAN SANT One of the things that is devastating is I realise I haven't been living a different life than w...
GUS VAN SANT The things that inform student culture are created and controlled by the unseen culture, the sociolo...
GUS VAN SANT If you don't have the story and the unfolding of the trajectory of the saga, it's like getti...
GUS VAN SANT Gerry,
GUS VAN SANT It felt pretty in the moment because ... he's kind of quiet and he looks like that and dresses like ...
GUS VAN SANT [In contrast to Cobain, though, Blake is never seen using drugs (even if it's clearly hinted at).] I...
GUS VAN SANT I have my ideas of what a good documentary is, but drama is a different animal because you're arrang...
GUS VAN SANT Sometimes I wish I had never met you, because then I could go to sleep at night not knowing there wa...
GUS VAN SANT I grew up near the sea in British Columbia and San Francisco, and lived in Malibu and Fiji for years...
RAYMOND BURR The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right butto...
RAYMOND CHANDLER Successful people understand the value of time. Once they commit to doing something, they would neve...
RAYMOND ARROYO If the speaker won't boil it down, the audience must sweat it out.
RAYMOND DUNCAN I fell into acting by going to a callback for J.C. Penney with my two older brothers when I was 4 1/...
RAYMOND OCHOA All marriages are happy it's living together afterwards that causes all the problems.
RAYMOND HULL I guess God made Boston on a wet Sunday.
RAYMOND CHANDLER It is not a fragrant world.
RAYMOND CHANDLER Some people are always critical of vague statements. I tend rather to be critical of precise stateme...
RAYMOND SMULLYAN I've crossed some kind of invisible line. I feel as if I've come to a place I never thought I'd have...
RAYMOND CARVER He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away.
RAYMOND HULL Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day and read.
RAYMOND CARVER However toplofty and idealistic a man may be, he can always rationalize his right to earn money.
RAYMOND CHANDLER Pleasure is sweeter as recreation than as a business.
RAYMOND HITCHCOCK Originality consists in trying to be like everybody else --and failing.
RAYMOND RADIGUET The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.
RAYMOND CHANDLER A man isn't poor if he can still laugh.
RAYMOND HITCHCOCK The keynote of American civilization is a sort of warm-hearted vulgarity. The Americans have none of...
RAYMOND CHANDLER It's fairly obvious that American education is a cultural flop. Americans are not a well-educated pe...
RAYMOND CHANDLER The inner thought coming from the heart represents the real motives and desires. These are the cause...
RAYMOND HOLLIWELL Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.
RAYMOND HULL You must see first before you can believe.
RAYMOND HOLLIWELL Would you convey my compliments to the purist who reads your proofs and tell him or her that I write...
RAYMOND CHANDLER There is something about the literary life that repels me, all this desperate building of castles on...
RAYMOND CHANDLER Any man who can write a page of living prose adds something to our life, and the man who can, as I c...
RAYMOND CHANDLER Each experience through which we pass operates ultimately for our good. This is a correct attitude t...
RAYMOND HOLLIWELL What breaks capitalism, all that will ever break capitalism, is capitalists. The faster they run the...
RAYMOND WILLIAMS The agent never receipts his bill, puts his hat on and bows himself out. He stays around forever, no...
RAYMOND CHANDLER Throughout the history of commercial life nobody has ever quite liked the commission man. His functi...
RAYMOND CHANDLER Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more de...
RAYMOND CHANDLER When a book, any sort of book, reaches a certain intensity of artistic performance it becomes litera...
RAYMOND CHANDLER The minute you try to talk business with him he takes the attitude that he is a gentleman and a scho...
RAYMOND CHANDLER It wasn't idealism that made me, from the beginning, want a more secure and rational society. It was...
RAYMOND WILLIAMS Are we controlled by our thoughts, or are we controlling our thoughts?
RAYMOND HOLLIWELL A really good detective never gets married.
RAYMOND CHANDLER An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of ...
RAYMOND CHANDLER The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral gro...
RAYMOND CHANDLER Desire creates the power.
RAYMOND HOLLIWELL What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of ...
RAYMOND CHANDLER Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were d...
RAYMOND CHANDLER It is wrong to be harsh with the New York critics, unless one admits in the same breath that it is a...
RAYMOND CHANDLER Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. ...
RAYMOND CHANDLER Good critical writing is measured by the perception and evaluation of the subject; bad critical writ...
RAYMOND CHANDLER God does not require you to follow His leadings on blind trust. Behold the evidence of an invisible ...
RAYMOND HOLLIWELL The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and a...
RAYMOND CHANDLER The most durable thing in writing is style, and style is the most valuable investment a writer can m...
RAYMOND CHANDLER A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled.
RAYMOND CHANDLER She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket.
RAYMOND CHANDLER In jail a man has no personality. He is a minor disposal problem and a few entries on reports. Nobod...
RAYMOND CHANDLER So by all means let's have a television show quick and long, even if the commercial has to be delive...
RAYMOND CHANDLER Television's perfect. You turn a few knobs, a few of those mechanical adjustments at which the highe...
RAYMOND CHANDLER The moment a man begins to talk about technique that's proof that he is fresh out of ideas.
RAYMOND CHANDLER The most prepared are the most dedicated.
RAYMOND BERRY The boys with their feet on the desks know that the easiest murder case in the world to break is the...
RAYMOND CHANDLER If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been an...
RAYMOND CHANDLER Its idea of production value is spending a million dollars dressing up a story that any good writer ...
RAYMOND CHANDLER Some are able and humane men and some are low-grade individuals with the morals of a goat, the artis...
RAYMOND CHANDLER That's one thing I like about Hollywood. The writer is there revealed in his ultimate corruption. He...
RAYMOND CHANDLER They don't want you until you have made a name, and by the time you have made a name, you have devel...
RAYMOND CHANDLER The motion picture made in Hollywood, if it is to create art at all, must do so within such strangli...
RAYMOND CHANDLER The overall picture, as the boys say, is of a degraded community whose idealism even is largely fake...
RAYMOND CHANDLER Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid.....
RAYMOND CHANDLER There are people who can write their memoirs with a reasonable amount of honesty, and there are peop...
RAYMOND CHANDLER It is a mass language only in the same sense that its baseball slang is born of baseball players. Th...
RAYMOND CHANDLER I've found that there are only two kinds that are any good: slang that has established itself in the...
RAYMOND CHANDLER The making of a picture ought surely to be a rather fascinating adventure. It is not; it is an endle...
RAYMOND CHANDLER The motion picture is like a picture of a lady in a half-piece bathing suit. If she wore a few more ...
RAYMOND CHANDLER The reading public is intellectually adolescent at best, and it is obvious that what is called signi...
RAYMOND CHANDLER I said something which gave you to think I hated cats. But gad, sir, I am one of the most fanatical ...
RAYMOND CHANDLER Your rat tail is all the fashion now. I prefer a bushy plume, carried straight up. You are Siamese a...
RAYMOND CHANDLER He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.
RAYMOND CHANDLER Alcohol is like love. The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After t...
RAYMOND CHANDLER It is pretty obvious that the debasement of the human mind caused by a constant flow of fraudulent a...
RAYMOND CHANDLER There are two kinds of truth; the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The ...
RAYMOND CHANDLER At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must se...
RAYMOND CHANDLER A good title is the title of a successful book.
RAYMOND CHANDLER Common sense always speaks too late. Common sense is the guy who tells you ought to have had your br...
RAYMOND CHANDLER 'Common sense is the guy that tells you that you ought to have your brakes relined last week before ...
RAYMOND CHANDLER Chess is the most elaborate waste of human intelligence outside of an advertising agency.
RAYMOND CHANDLER A man's judgment is best when he can forget himself and any reputation he may have acquired and can ...
RAYMOND SPRUANCE The more you reason the less you create.
RAYMOND CHANDLER Understanding reduces the greatest to simplicity, and lack of its causes the least to take on the ma...
RAYMOND HOLLIWELL Some people are always critical of vague statements. I tend rather to be critical of precise statem...
RAYMOND SMULLYAN Don't let the University get in the way of your education.
RAYMOND BROWN I don’t mind if you don’t like my manners. They’re pretty bad. I grieve over them during the l...
RAYMOND CHANDLER The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and...
RAYMOND CHANDLER I alienated the automotive industry by saying that cars should be lightweight and compact.
RAYMOND LOEWY Among the most serious allegations a federal court can address are that an Executive agency has targ...
RAYMOND KETHLEDGE I love being able to bring an animator's vision to life and give the breath to the voice of a ch...
RAYMOND OCHOA Golf is a game, and games are meant to be enjoyed.
RAYMOND FLOYD Alcohol is like love. The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After t...
RAYMOND CHANDLER Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.
RAYMOND CHANDLER Ulysses finds himself unchanged, aside from his experience, at the end of his odyssey.
RAYMOND QUENEAU Good design keeps the user happy, the manufacturer in the black and the aesthete unoffended.
RAYMOND LOEWY 'No' is the second shortest word in the English language, but one of the hardest to say.
RAYMOND ARROYO Honey, no offense, but sometimes I think I could shoot you and watch you kick.
RAYMOND CARVER One can easily classify all works of fiction either as descendants of the Iliad or of the Odyssey.
RAYMOND QUENEAU I am an unmarried man, as opposed to a single man. A bachelor, according to the dictionary, is a man...
RAYMOND BURR A great danger, or at least a great temptation, for many writers is to become too autobiographical i...
RAYMOND CARVER The American automobile has changed the habits of every member of modern society.
RAYMOND LOEWY I don't overeat. I only eat one meal a day... but my body has been one of those that has almost ...
RAYMOND BURR I do a great deal of research - particularly in the apartments of tall blondes.
RAYMOND CHANDLER The world is filled with archaic objects - mailboxes which look like alarm boxes, banks which look l...
RAYMOND LOEWY Between two products equal in price, function and quality, the better looking will outsell the other...
RAYMOND LOEWY I liked the military life. They teach you self-sufficiency early on. I always say that I learned mos...
RAYMOND KELLY Think Indonesia and tourism, and the first thing that comes to mind is probably Bali. Think golf hol...
RAYMOND BONNER Sydney's most famous beach is Bondi. At its southern end is Bondi Baths, an eight-lane, 50-meter...
RAYMOND BONNER I regard psychiatry as fifty percent bunk, thirty percent fraud, ten percent parrot talk, and the re...
RAYMOND CHANDLER Dying, we tell ourselves, is like going to sleep. This figure of speech occurs very commonly in ever...
RAYMOND MOODY But I can hardly sit still. I keep fidgeting, crossing one leg and then the other. I feel like I cou...
RAYMOND CARVER It seems to me that an author who has determined very new domains in literature is Gertrude Stein.
RAYMOND QUENEAU It's very comforting to know that you are faced with a difficult job. If someone gives you a job...
RAYMOND AUBRAC There are no accomplished golf tour operators in Indonesia, so a golf holiday there is a do-it-yours...
RAYMOND BONNER No doubt many people have the feeling that to talk about death at all is, in effect, to conjure it u...
RAYMOND MOODY No matter what we want of life we have to give up something in order to get it.
RAYMOND HOLLIWELL Between two products equal in price, function and quality, the better looking will out sell the othe...
RAYMOND LOEWY Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.
RAYMOND LINDQUIST It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window.
RAYMOND CHANDLER If a guy has a really good success pattern, I'll go along with him if he says he can go to the moon ...
RAYMOND HERZOG To give your best is to receive the best.
RAYMOND HOLLIWELL She poured us some more Scotch. It didn't seem to affect her any more than water affects Boulder Dam...
RAYMOND CHANDLER When in doubt, have two guys come through the door with guns.
RAYMOND CHANDLER California, the department store state.
RAYMOND CHANDLER In a developing country like Ghana, the issue about standardized testing is not different, because a...
RAYMOND OBENG I can understand that Muslims find the caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad in the Norwegian weekly.....
RAYMOND JOHANSEN Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any sta...
RAYMOND CHANDLER Many believe effective networking is done face-to-face, building a rapport with someone by looking a...
RAYMOND ARROYO The debate analysis in the media is rampant with contest analogies of war, baseball, boxing, footbal...
JONATHAN RAYMOND People here always said to me, 'Why would you leave civilization to go to a place like Fiji?'...
RAYMOND BURR Hope is simply an anchor that we hold on to, as a way of envisioning the brightness of our future.
RAYMOND OBENG American products are marvels of production and functionality, but were unnecessarily and unbearably...
RAYMOND LOEWY The Coke bottle is a masterpiece of scientific, functional planning. In simpler terms, I would descr...
RAYMOND LOEWY A lot was achieved, including the finalization of a protocol setting out global standards for the pr...
RAYMOND MARTIN I once had a long relationship with a lady, and wherever I went in the world, if I saw something she...
RAYMOND BURR You see, this happened a few months ago, but it's still going on right now, and it ought to make us ...
RAYMOND CARVER People are imperfect. What we have learned through the ages, though, is that combining lots of peopl...
ERIC RAYMOND It's a new role for me. In the past, I've played partners that were the less emotional leader. Now, ...
LISA RAYMOND If you are doing well, it is an incredible lifestyle.
LISA RAYMOND What passes for optimism is most often the effect of an intellectual error.
RAYMOND ARON The journey of a biased investigation leads to a destination of biased findings.
RAYMOND OBENG The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring.
RAYMOND CHANDLER For a long time I wanted to do the kind of work my dad did. He was going to ask his foreman at the m...
RAYMOND CARVER If all married men and women will appreciate and cherish their partners' sex organs no matter how th...
RAYMOND OBENG Truth unveiled is as harmful as the sickness that overpowers all efficacious medications.
RAYMOND OBENG Naturally, nobody seems not to enjoy working. But it is working harder, and going the extra mile in ...
RAYMOND OBENG If you want to get fired easily as an employee, behave as if you were the C.E.O of your organization...
RAYMOND OBENG