of one hundred movies there's one that is fair, one that's good and ninety eight that are very bad. most movies start badly and steadily get worse
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ONE I love so-called movies that are bad movies, but 'Prometheus' is one of those movies that pe...
ADAM WINGARD There are one hundred and ninety nine ways to beat, but only one way to win; get there first.
WILLIE SHOEMAKER There are one hundred and ninety nine ways to beat, but only one way to win; get there first.
BILL SHOEMAKER Movies, I don't really get the bad guys. In theater, I get more bad guys. Both audiences and dir...
CAMPBELL SCOTT I think that there's good movies and there's bad movies, and sometimes the bad movies spoil ...
DREW GODDARD There are nine hundred and ninety-nine patrons of virtue to one virtuous man.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU You don't know, oh, oh
You don't know you're beautiful.
ONE DIRECTION Love yourself and your expression, you can't go wrong.
KRS-ONE We get rated down by homeowners associations because we have no slums.
DAY ONE If we could only have this life for one more day. If we could only turn back time. You know I'll be ...
ONE DIRECTION You know I'll be
Your Life
Your Voice
Your Reason To Be
My Love
My Heart...
ONE DIRECTION do not cry , you can focus the light spot with the eyes , the eyes of your heart . smile
MISTER ONE Everyone loves the David and Goliath story, but if Goliath had slain David, it'd never have made the...
DAY ONE I've been coming here since Day One, ... Watching games at home is no fun. It's boring. Here, we get...
DAY ONE If it was $10 a gallon, I'd be buying it today since you can't get it anywhere else,
DAY ONE Get every drop in there. Can't lose none,
DAY ONE big, medium and small.
DAY ONE Yes, look, I don't think I can explain this any better to you, but we don't want to ... Well, I gues...
DAY ONE You hand fits in mine like its made to be but bear this in mind it was meant to be and im joining up...
ONE DIRECTION Tell me I'm a screwed up mess, that I never listen, listen. Tell me you don't want my kiss, that ...
ONE DIRECTION You're impossible to resist, but I wouldn't bet your heart on it. It's like I'm finally awake, and...
ONE DIRECTION Baby you light up my world like nobody else. The way that you flip your hair gets me overwhelmed. An...
ONE DIRECTION Why did the mushroom go to the party?
Because he's a fungi!
ONE DIRECTION I'm fucking the grave, I thought, I'm bringing the dead back to life...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education.
WILL ROGERS Secrets make for good drama, and revealing the hidden truths and contradictions of life is, for me, ...
IRA SACHS There is the moral spectrum in 'Fargo,' and you see it in other Coen brothers movies, where ...
NOAH HAWLEY Something coming back from the dead was almost always bad news. Movies taught me that. For every one...
DAVID WONG One of my gripes about movies is that people take them so seriously, and the moneymaking aspects are...
BILL MURRAY There's only one thing that can kill the movies, and that's education.
WILL ROGERS Some of my favorite movies are just movies that are just good stories, and aren't necessarily bi...
MIRANDA COSGROVE 'Gremlins' is one of those eternal movies that stands the test of time and that everyone lov...
ALEXANDRA DADDARIO So one of the most unique things on screen in American movies today is everyday behavior.
ALAN RUDOLPH American movies are the most popular movies everywhere, and it is true that the quality is far from ...
SYDNEY POLLACK In essence, we're imaging the same cell for anywhere from forty to a hundred thousand times to c...
ERIC BETZIG My favourite books are Charles Bukowski's 'Post Office' and 'Women.'
ALEX PETTYFER His humour is very much like his movies, one-liners, fast, off-the-cuff stuff. He's always been like...
TODD NELSON It is odd there are many movies with many men. But generally movies have one woman, or maybe the old...
CARLA GUGINO 'Fargo' is one of my favorite movies.
TATE DONOVAN One of my favorite movies is The Little Foxes.
DONNA MILLS 'Terminator' is one of my favorite movies.
DEAN AMBROSE Back of ninety-nine out of one-hundred assertions that a thing cannot be done is nothing, but the un...
WILLIAM FEATHER There is only one thing that can kill the movies, and that is education. . . . Some say, what is the...
WILL ROGERS I don't see my movies. When you ask me about one of my movies, it just goes in my memory because...
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI If you just love movies enough, you can make a good one.
QUENTIN TARANTINO Murderers don't get forgiven just because we promise to be good from now on. We have to earn our way...
BILL WILLINGHAM 'Tropic Thunder' is one of my favorite movies of all time. 'Blazing Saddles.' Anythi...
JOHN CENA That's one of the remarkable things about life. It's never so bad that it can't get worse.
BILL WATTERSON [One positive is that] there's very little news that could make psychology much worse, and you'll ju...
ARNIE BERMAN Sunrise symbolizes a whole new day, a fresh start with everything. Sunset on the other hand, tells u...
KIM SEGURA ENCARNACION One of the joys of going to the movies was that it was trashy, and we should never lose that.
OLIVER STONE Regimen is superior to medicine, especially as, from time immemorial, out of every hundred physician...
VOLTAIRE I have a feeling, one of those gut feelings, that I'll make pretty good movies the rest of my li...
PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON One of things that drives me nuts is you rarely get bad guys who are written very well.
ERIC JOHNSON One of my favorite things about doing movies is that you get to do different things you'd never ...
DAKOTA FANNING No one should make the mistake of thinking that three or four movies are going to change their fate.
BRYAN LOURD I've made movies that cost less than one car chase.
SAM MENDES Now, being on the cover of Vanity Fair is as important as being in great movies. The lines are very,...
JASON PATRIC I loved 'Clueless.' That was one of my favorite movies of all time.
AMANDA BYNES With movies, you are always in search is a good story, one that everyone will relate to and love. I ...
DON BLUTH He pleaded so much that he lost his voice. His bones began to fill with words.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Death really did not matter to him but life did, and therefore the sensation he felt when they gave ...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ İnsanın oturduğu toprakların altında ölüleri yoksa, o adam o toprağın insanı değildir.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ If military movies were automatically successful we'd make nothing but military movies. But seri...
TOMMY LEE JONES I'm not going to have a perfect career. It's better to be Billy Wilder and make lots of movi...
JASON REITMAN Here is one fact 1 minute to finish the class, 1 day to die, one day behind that fact, one day in th...
DEYTH BANGER One of my favorite movies of all time is 'Fargo.'
CAMERON MONAGHAN All that matters is the ending, its the most important part of the story, and this one is very good....
JOHNNY DEPP My motto: 'No good movie is depressing. All bad movies are depressing.'
ROGER EBERT The normal profits of a business concern in the United States are six, eight, ten, and sometimes twe...
SMEDLEY BUTLER 'Blazing Saddles' is one of the funniest movies ever made.
ADAM MCKAY One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests
THOMAS PAINE Toronto Film Festival is one of those festivals where there are 400 movies, and unless you have a di...
VIGGO MORTENSEN For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul...
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES Every once in a while, people step up. They rise above themselves. Sometimes they surprise you. And ...
ONE TREE HILL What kids are doing are killing themselves
They feel they have no control of their prisoner's c...
TWENTY ONE PILOTS Life is good! It is only our thoughts, choices and actions towards the situations we meet in life ea...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Even from a really young age I was a huge movie buff - five, six, seven, eight. Just loved movies, b...
DANNY STRONG I would say the film world has stopped operating as one. We have divided it into Hindi movies, Benga...
MITHUN CHAKRABORTY The room fell quiet. And as I read down the list of over one hundred and fifty eight-grade boys, I r...
WENDELIN VAN DRAANEN The technology involved in making anything invisible is so infinitely complex that nine hundred and ...
DOUGLAS ADAMS I'm the number-one fan of gangster movies.
DAVID CHASE Movies are extremely imitative of one another. Whatever works, people will try to do it.
OCTAVIA E. BUTLER I'm sure that I know that, it's behind one of all doors.
DEYTH BANGER All movies are good if we are attentive to the social message that it conveys often in a subdued ton...
ANUJ SOMANY Of course the French are making very credible movies and it is still one of the greatest nations in ...
WIM WENDERS One of the first movies my dad took me to see was the original 'Road Warrior.' And I was kin...
AISHA TYLER Jazz is one of the great, truly native American art forms. Along with the movies, it's probably the ...
DANA GIOIA I realized what interested me as a student of film was one thing and the movies that I liked were an...
SAM RAIMI Every year I hear people complain that the quality of screenplays and movies is declining. In my opi...
VIGGO MORTENSEN 'The Princess Bride' is one of my favorite movies of all time.
IVANA MILICEVIC One thing I always heard from the begining when I talked about this being a movie - was that the rul...
MIKE JUDGE I really liked Carrie a lot. That was one of Brian De Palma's best movies.
LAWRENCE KASDAN I certainly look at them very differently now, and enjoy Jackie Chan movies and movies like that.
CHIAKI KURIYAMA There isn't one solution for every piece of content. There are some movies worth renting, and others...
BOB GREENE The idea of us telling a story where a character doesn't get everything he wants at the end is o...
DAN SCANLON When you look at the early-'30s movies, like King Kong, the codes of acting are very similar to ...
MICHEL HAZANAVICIUS I dont want the kind of love thats in movies, I want my own kind,
LYNDSEY ANN-MARIE SHEPARD If I wanted to make spy movies for the rest of my life, that would be one thing, but I don't wan...
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and my
courage
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grav...
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CHARLES BUKOWSKI My dear,
Find what you love and let it kill you.
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CHARLES BUKOWSKI we
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smoking
cigarettes
at
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“Drink, fuck and smoke plenty of cigarettes.
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CHARLES BUKOWSKI you boys can keep your virgins
give me hot old women in high heels
with asses that forgo...
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Emergency purposes only
These people are not
Emergencies,...
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but I'm too tough for him,
I say, sta...
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the only reason I fucked L. is because you fucked
Z. ...
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the longer I sit and listen to them
the more empty I feel but I don't...
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CHARLES BUKOWSKI A i urreni njerëzit?
Unë nuk i urrej ata ... Unë vetëm ndjehen mirë kur ata nuk janë për...
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our lips raw with love
and how you gave me
everything y...
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a space
and even ...
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unless being still would
drive you to...
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Van Gogh writing his brother for paints
Hemingway tes...
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do they,
that sometimes solitude
is
one of the mos...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI great writers are indecent people
they live unfairly
saving the best part for paper.
...
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that you can see it in the slow movement of
t...
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A fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous thing
To do...
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CHARLES BUKOWSKI I'm becoming softer and softer.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI y la fama y el amor
nada más que un truco para atenuar nuestra herida.
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CHARLES BUKOWSKI las palabras bonitas
como las mujeres bonitas
se arrugan y mueren.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI there are worse things
than being alone
but it often takes
decades to realize this CHARLES BUKOWSKI your best men are
drunks and your worst men are
locking them
up,
your best men a...
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that city, though
it didn't let me feel guilty
that I had n...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI we must bring
our own light
to the
darkness.
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live.
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CHARLES BUKOWSKI having nothing to struggle
against
they have nothing to struggle
for.
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CHARLES BUKOWSKI You're afraid of the audience, aren't you?"
"Yes, but it's not stagefright. It's that I'm there...
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CHARLES BUKOWSKI Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show....
CHARLES BUKOWSKI that your power of command
with simple language was
one of the magnificent things of
...
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CHARLES BUKOWSKI I
think that the
world should be full of cats and full of rain, that's all, just
cats...
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CHARLES BUKOWSKI girls
please give your
bodies and your
lives
to
the young men
who
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human beings about
there is never going to be
any peace
for...
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belief, deluded myself with love
tricked myself w...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI is there any wonder why the world is where it’s at now? just notice the creature sitting near you ...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI they thought that writing had
something to do with
the politics of the
thing.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI it’s as if he were hiding in there and I want to console him, say: “I am sorry, poor fellow, but...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI it is a fine sunny day and great matters loom across the horizon of history. Carthage in my rearview...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I often carry things to read so that I will not have to look at the people.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI another hot summer night as I sit here and play at being a writer again. and the worst thing of cour...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Living too long takes more than time
CHARLES BUKOWSKI humanity you sick motherfucker.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I look like a man in a death camp.
I
am.
still, I'm lucky: I feat on solitude, ...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Writing is its own intoxication.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI if I had a book or a drink then I didn’t think too much of other things—fools create their own p...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI But you know, my former life as a bibliophile, it possibly kept me from murdering somebody, myself i...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI alone tonight in this house, alone with 6 cats who tell me without effort all that there is to know.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI a bird no one wants. he’s mine. my bird of pain. he doesn’t sing. that bird swaying on the bough...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI people are worn away with striving, they hide in common habits. their concerns are herd concerns. fe...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI death is walking
up and down
this room
smoking my cigars
taking hits of my <...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI there was a soldier in the next room living with his wife and he would soon be going over there to p...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I was so thin I could slice bread with my shoulderblades, only I seldom had bread
CHARLES BUKOWSKI well, death says, as he walks by, I'm going to get you anyhow no matter what you've been: writer, ca...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI not writing is not good but trying to write when you can't is worse.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI great books are the ones we need
CHARLES BUKOWSKI young or old, good or bad, I don't think anything dies as slow and as hard as a writer.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I could read the great books but the great books don't interest me.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI writing about a writer's block is better than not writing at all
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I tell you such fine music waits in the shadows of hell.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I often carry things to read
so that I will not have to look at
the people.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Now we are citizens of nothing. the sun itself knows the sad truth of how we surrendered our lives a...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I was sentimental about many things: a woman’s shoes under the bed; one hairpin left behind on the...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI