When I was born I owed twelve dollars.
GEORGE S. KAUFMAN I like terra firma; the more firma, the less terra.
GEORGE S. KAUFMAN When I invite a woman to dinner, I expect her to look at my face. That's the price she has to pa...
GEORGE S. KAUFMAN The kind of doctor I want is one who when he's not examining me is home studying medicine.
GEORGE S. KAUFMAN They're not understudies, they're overstudies.
GEORGE S. KAUFMAN Office hours are from 12 to 1 with an hour off for lunch.
GEORGE S. KAUFMAN At dramatic rehearsals, the only author that's better than an absent one is a dead one.
GEORGE S. KAUFMAN I understand your new play is full of single entendres.
GEORGE S. KAUFMAN Epitaph for a dead waiter - God finally caught his eye.
GEORGE S. KAUFMAN Thousands of individuals unknowingly contribute to the creation of our lives. Over the years, these ...
KRISTIN S. KAUFMAN Each one of us has a destiny to fulfill, and a seat to take. It is never to late, as long as we have...
KRISTIN S. KAUFMAN Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.
GEORGE S. PATTON Better to fight for something than live for nothing.
GEORGE S. PATTON You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.
GEORGE S. PATTON A piece of spaghetti or a military unit can only be led from the front end.
GEORGE S. PATTON Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.
GEORGE S. PATTON Do your damnedest in an ostentatious manner all the time.
GEORGE S. PATTON If a man does his best, what else is there?
GEORGE S. PATTON Always do everything you ask of those you command.
GEORGE S. PATTON Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ing...
GEORGE S. PATTON Our acts can be no wiser than our thoughts.
GEORGE S. CLASON It is true that money cannot buy happiness but it does make it possible for you to enjoy the best th...
GEORGE S. CLASON Money is plentiful for those who understand the simple laws which govern its acquisition.
GEORGE S. CLASON Men of action are favored by the Goddess of luck.
GEORGE S. CLASON The conqueror and king in each one of us is the knower of truth. Let the knower awaken in us and dri...
GEORGE S. ARUNDALE A pint of sweat will save a gallon of blood.
GEORGE S. PATTON A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week.
GEORGE S. PATTON Don't be a fool and die for your country. Let the other sonofabitch die for his.
GEORGE S. PATTON If you tell people where to go, but not how to get there, you'll be amazed at the results.
GEORGE S. PATTON If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have nev...
GEORGE S. PATTON Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.
GEORGE S. PATTON The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That's t...
GEORGE S. PATTON The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
GEORGE S. PATTON It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
GEORGE S. PATTON A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood.
GEORGE S. PATTON Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the...
GEORGE S. PATTON If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
GEORGE S. PATTON We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.
GEORGE S. PATTON Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
GEORGE S. PATTON Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their re...
GEORGE S. PATTON Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingen...
GEORGE S. PATTON Americans play to win at all times. I wouldn't give a hoot and hell for a man who lost and laugh...
GEORGE S. PATTON Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of ...
GEORGE S. PATTON Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.
GEORGE S. PATTON A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.
GEORGE S. PATTON Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.
GEORGE S. PATTON Nobody ever defended anything successfully, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.
GEORGE S. PATTON The reason why we have never found measure of wealth. We never sought it.
GEORGE S. CLASON Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all tha...
GEORGE S. PATTON Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
GEORGE S PATTON If man does his best what else is there?
GEORGE S. PATTON Learning was of two kinds: the one being the things we learned and knew, and the other being the tra...
GEORGE S. CLASON Men of action are favored by the Goddess of luck.
GEORGE S. CLASON Battle is an orgy of disorder.
GEORGE S. PATTON A good plan violently executed today is better than a perfect plan executed tomorrow.
GEORGE S. PATTON Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning.
GEORGE S. PATTON I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.
GEORGE S. MCGOVERN Opportunity is a haughty goddess who wastes no time with those who are unprepared. a
GEORGE S. CLASON All very successful commanders are prima donnas and must be so treated.
GEORGE S. PATTON It costs nothing to ask wise advice from a good friend.
GEORGE S. CLASON As for time, all men have it in abundance.
GEORGE S. CLASON Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle.
GEORGE S. PATTON You've learned the lessons well. You first learned to live on less than you earn. Next you learned t...
GEORGE S. CLASON Advice is one thing that is freely given away, but watch that you only take what is worth having.
GEORGE S. CLASON الرغبات العامة هي مجرد أمنيات واهنة، إن الرجل الذي يتم�...
GEORGE S. CLASON إن الفرص الجيدة لا تأتي لأشخاص غير مستعدين لاستغلالها".
GEORGE S. CLASON Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it pure ig...
MARGO KAUFMAN Interviewer: So. Tell me about your mother.
Ezra: You're taping this, right?
Interviewer: ...
AMIE KAUFMAN Only things the dreamers make live on. They are the eternal conquerors.
HERBERT KAUFMAN Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is t...
HERBERT KAUFMAN I would be willing to bet that if one day a woman walked barefoot to the moon and back and a man cle...
MARGO KAUFMAN Education is not a product: mark, diploma, job, money in that order; it is a process, a never ending...
BEL KAUFMAN I'm not a concept. Too many guys think I'm a concept or I complete them or I'm going to 'make them a...
CHARLIE KAUFMAN The dean of the American Film Institute has written that I'm one of the very few auteurs in Amer...
LLOYD KAUFMAN I think that people have expectations of themselves and other people that are based on these fiction...
CHARLIE KAUFMAN When I'm writing, I'm trying to immerse myself in the chaos of an emotional experience, rath...
CHARLIE KAUFMAN I have a personality that tends to be somewhat compulsive, and I do tend to think in a circular way....
CHARLIE KAUFMAN Dislike is much easier to handle than sympathy.
AMIE KAUFMAN I believe that independent film making is the last frontier of creative expression available. So I&#...
LLOYD KAUFMAN What's really interesting about that is that a lot of these words that were incendiary in their ...
PHILIP KAUFMAN But in the early 1970s, we were not birdwatching. We were birding, and that made all the difference....
KENN KAUFMAN Makers of empire, they have fought for bigger things than crowns and higher seats than thrones.
HERBERT KAUFMAN It occurred to me that every work of art is a synecdoche, there's no way around it. Every creati...
CHARLIE KAUFMAN I am frequently underestimated. I think it's because I'm short.
AMIE KAUFMAN I should have told you I loved you every day. I should have given you the stars.
AMIE KAUFMAN I do have, at different times, a certain kind of self-consciousness in the world, an insecurity.
CHARLIE KAUFMAN Forget everything else. Forget everyone else. You're exactly my kind of girl.
AMIE KAUFMAN There's no way to describe what I do. It's just me.
ANDY KAUFMAN Wisdom is the reward for a lifetime of listening ... when you'd have preferred to talk. -D.J. Kaufm...
D.J. KAUFMAN The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
MARGO KAUFMAN Constantly talking isn't necessarily communicating.
CHARLIE KAUFMAN We are what we love, not what loves us.
CHARLIE KAUFMAN Remarriage is an excellent test of just how amicable your divorce was.
MARGO KAUFMAN I once complained to my father that I didn't seem to be able to do things the same way other people ...
MARGO KAUFMAN I'm not into extreme sports or something. I just live a quiet life.
CHARLIE KAUFMAN I think you just assume that your memory is just sort of a video playback of your experience, but it...
CHARLIE KAUFMAN I hate a movie that will end by telling you that the first thing you should do is learn to love your...
CHARLIE KAUFMAN It's about this guy who finds out that his girlfriend of two years has had this surgical procedure w...
CHARLIE KAUFMAN In our racist, sexist society, Christmas is the eight hours when we stop killing each other and grat...
LLOYD KAUFMAN I do like escapism. I like going to the movies on a Friday night and seeing something fun.
CHARLIE KAUFMAN Pure entertainment is not an egotistical lady singing boring songs onstage for two hours and people ...
ANDY KAUFMAN Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
CHARLIE KAUFMAN Are you afraid?"

"Yes."

"Energy never stops, remember. It just changes forms."...
AMIE KAUFMAN I don't think it's something to be portrayed in a positive way down at the Oceanfront where we're tr...
ADAM KAUFMAN Everybody has had labs where you can do testing.
ADAM KAUFMAN The winning team recognized the attack before the other ones. You had to send e-mail to the judges t...
ADAM KAUFMAN When I perform, it's very personal. I'm sharing things I like, inviting the audience into my...
ANDY KAUFMAN So when I write characters and situations and relationships, I try to sort of utilize what I know ab...
CHARLIE KAUFMAN Whereas European films have traditionally been able to go into adult relationships. I think there...
PHILIP KAUFMAN If you're cutting corners on things, someone may blow the whistle on you.
ALAN KAUFMAN A discharged employee leaves unhappy. Many people who are discharged, first thing they do is open th...
ALAN KAUFMAN When we are running full out, we average around 35 million gallons (of water) a week. Annually, we c...
ALEX KAUFMAN It's basically a typical eastern weather hiccup. This one definitely had some power behind it.
ALEX KAUFMAN That puts a smile on my face.
ALEX KAUFMAN I know a thousand different smiles, each with its own nuanced shade of meaning, but I don't know how...
AMIE KAUFMAN the code of a world he'd never been invited to join.
ANDREW KAUFMAN I look forward to coming in and cooking everyday. It just comes naturally.
ANDREW KAUFMAN When I was 30, I said 'enough of this. I decided it was time to grow up.
ANDREW KAUFMAN Exchanging ideas and techniques is motivating. There's always something new to learn.
ANDREW KAUFMAN There has been no global improvement on average. The average quality of governance worldwide has rem...
DANIEL KAUFMAN George Bush was called a lap dog for Ronald Reagan. You have to overcome that. You have to overcome ...
RON KAUFMAN I just want real reactions. I want people to laugh from the gut, be sad from the gut-or get angry fr...
ANDY KAUFMAN When I perform, it's very personal. I'm sharing things I like, inviting the audience into my room.
ANDY KAUFMAN My mother sent me to psychiatrists since the age of four because she didn't think little boys should...
ANDY KAUFMAN I never told a joke in my life.
ANDY KAUFMAN There's no drama like wrestling.
ANDY KAUFMAN I'm old enough, by a long shot, to remember going to the library and spending days researching. ...
CHARLIE KAUFMAN Eddie Beauchamp and Gordon Harrison have long served the University System of Georgia in a number of...
DANIEL KAUFMAN We look forward to a long-term partnership with W. P. Carey and appreciate the flexibility this tran...
BOB KAUFMAN I'm from the '60s, but no one has ever accused me of being a hippie. I never had much intere...
LLOYD KAUFMAN I'm interested in stories about people as we knew them in the near-recent future.
PHILIP KAUFMAN We want to offer families the opportunity to rehabilitate their communities.
DAVID KAUFMAN It reinforced what we were already doing.
CARYN KAUFMAN If there was any visage of bipartisanship left in this governor, I think he's just about put a nail ...
GALE KAUFMAN They are always very lax about putting restrictions on violence for children's movies, which I t...
PHILIP KAUFMAN We're going to get a pump here. This water is not going anywhere here.
CAROLE KAUFMAN I would be willing to bet that if one day a woman walked barefoot to the moon and back and a man cle...
MARGO KAUFMAN Of course, the Meryl Streep in the play is nothing like the real Meryl, and the proof of that is tha...
CHARLIE KAUFMAN I must admit, there's a little bit of 'this guy smells like a winner.' And that's aiding, I think, t...
RON KAUFMAN I just want real reactions. I want people to laugh from the gut, be sad from the gut - or get angry ...
ANDY KAUFMAN This is not a matter of whether David Kaufman is right or wrong: It's a matter of whether the judici...
DAVID KAUFMAN This is based on a presumption that they actually know what was going on in the Capitol, and they do...
GALE KAUFMAN My role was to break in and crash their servers. It gave them a taste of what an attack is like.
ADAM KAUFMAN These things are important to me, these things I write. I recognize and embrace the notion of collab...
CHARLIE KAUFMAN There's no way to describe what I do. It's just me.
ANDY KAUFMAN I'm not a celebrity. I'm intentionally and defiantly not a celebrity. I don't have any interest in i...
CHARLIE KAUFMAN It makes no sense if the NCAA really wants to cease the racial stereotyping inherent in the use of N...
STEPHEN KAUFMAN We live in sort of like a bowl, like a mini New Orleans, so it's a big mess. Everything is under wat...
CAROLE KAUFMAN It makes no sense if the NCAA really wants to cease the racial stereotyping inherent in the use of N...
STEPHEN KAUFMAN This means you have to negotiate the discharge. Negotiate it so that in return for [pay or benefit] ...
ALAN KAUFMAN [under pressure to keep speech brief] Thanks to the Academy. 29 seconds. 27 seconds. That's really i...
CHARLIE KAUFMAN The thing I find about the movie industry is that 99 percent of the people are absolute scum. They&#...
LLOYD KAUFMAN We really think that one tall, thin building is better than two smaller buildings.
WILLIAM KAUFMAN The mayor is satisfied with that assurance.
CARYN KAUFMAN There were a few bidders who won, but could not close, for whatever reason. But that will happen.
CARYN KAUFMAN We feel it was a real success.
CARYN KAUFMAN Philips is a very large Dell customer, and we have a very strong relationship that will continue in ...
BOB KAUFMAN We are always evaluating different technologies and various relationships on behalf of our customers...
BOB KAUFMAN Steven has a role in one of the spots for that campaign. His participation in the Interns spots is r...
BOB KAUFMAN We have a new campaign that started in the past couple of days, called Interns.
BOB KAUFMAN Steven has a role in one of the spots for that campaign. His participation in the Interns spots is r...
BOB KAUFMAN We have a new campaign that started in the past couple of days, called Interns,
BOB KAUFMAN I want to personally thank all the participants in this outing for providing a record amount of supp...
BOB KAUFMAN I'm sure there are folks out there somewhere who are working on that now,
BOB KAUFMAN The sprint car challenge is a one-of-a-kind show,
BOB KAUFMAN We're going to be in the national limelight.
CARYN KAUFMAN Numbers do not feel. Do not bleed or weep or hope. They do not know bravery or sacrifice. Love or al...
AMIE KAUFMAN Whenever I play a role, whether it's good or bad, an evil person or nice person, I believe in being ...
ANDY KAUFMAN That was part of the whole original concept. We were thinking, it's off-season, let's do a really fu...
ANDY KAUFMAN You are what you love, not what loves you.
CHARLIE KAUFMAN Authors (and perhaps columnists) eventually rise to the top of whateverdepths they were once able to...
STANLEY KAUFMAN The critics try to intellectualize my materiel. There's no satire involved. Satire is a concept that...
ANDY KAUFMAN If I play my cards right, I could bring network wrestling back to TV. Unfortunately, to most people,...
ANDY KAUFMAN Pure entertainment is not an egotistical lady singing boring songs onstage for two hours and people ...
ANDY KAUFMAN I try to please people, to give them a good time, but I refuse to make my act conform to traditional...
ANDY KAUFMAN What's real? What's not? That's what I do in my act, test how other people deal with reality.
ANDY KAUFMAN It's an affirmation of the direction the city was heading. The purpose was to have outside experts t...
CARYN KAUFMAN Very often, anti-corruption commissions are a politically expedient response to domestic and interna...
DANIEL KAUFMAN Failure is only postponed success as long as courage ''coaches'' ambition. The habit of persistence ...
HERBERT KAUFMAN Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is...
HERBERT KAUFMAN Rich men's sons are seldom rich men's fathers
HERBERT KAUFMAN Words signify man's refusal to accept the world as it is
HERBERT KAUFMAN While all the other kids were out playing ball and stuff, I used to stay in my room and imagine that...
ANDY KAUFMAN I don't know how we're ever going to get this back together.
CAROLE KAUFMAN Oh man, oh boy what a mess.
CAROLE KAUFMAN Sideways.
CHARLIE KAUFMAN CLEMENTINE: This is it, Joel. It's going to be gone soon.
JOEL: I know.
CLEMENTINE: What d...
CHARLIE KAUFMAN I was trying to figure out what a memory feels like.
CHARLIE KAUFMAN I want to try it to see what it's like and see what my stuff looks like when I take it from inceptio...
CHARLIE KAUFMAN My mother sent me to psychiatrists since the age of four because she didn't think little boys sh...
ANDY KAUFMAN My time on the set is the least of my involvement. Most of my time is in pre-production and post-pro...
CHARLIE KAUFMAN Nowadays they either want to move the film to Canada or in some cases they go to Prague or Romania o...
PHILIP KAUFMAN I think of myself as a guy who tries to write screenplays and now has tried to direct one. Anything ...
CHARLIE KAUFMAN Don’t look at your data through rose-colored glasses: always strive to be honest with yourself abo...
JOSH KAUFMAN The decker these ***holes brought with them is top tier, but I'm going to stomp his jelly beans so h...
AMIE KAUFMAN ...your zeal to face life's rough and tumble, your ardor to accept the responsibilities of adulthood...
MILLARD KAUFMAN We firmly believe that he never would have been convicted had the court not given this instruction, ...
DAVID KAUFMAN Sometimes you take all my words away from me.
AMIE KAUFMAN That's a little homage in a way to that and also to create that sort of creepy atmosphere that H...
PHILIP KAUFMAN I'm trying to tell a story and do it truthfully.
CHARLIE KAUFMAN