A new kind of award has been added--the deathbed award. It is not an award of any kind. Either the recipient has not acted at all,... or was not nominated, or did not win the award the last few times around. It is intended to relieve the guilty conscience of the Academy members and save face in front of the public. The Academy has the horrible taste to have a star, choking with emotion, present this deathbed award so that there can be no doubt in anybody's mind why the award is so hurriedly given. Lucky is the actor who is too sick to watch the proceedings on television.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The conqueror at least; who, ere Time renders His last award, will have the long grass grow... Above his burnt-out brain and sapless cinders. If I might augur, I should rate but low Their chances: they are too numerous, like the thirty Mock tyrants, when Rome's annals wax'd but dirty.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If parents award freedom regardless of whether their children have demonstrated an ability to handle it, children never learn to s...ee a clear link between responsible behavior and adult privileges.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There are certain stereotypes that are offensive. Some of them don't worry me, though. For instance, I have always thought that Ma...mmy character in Gone with the Wind was mighty funny. And I just loved "Amos 'n' Andy" on the radio. So you see, I have enough confidence in myself that those things did not bother me. I could laugh.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
See, I'm so light, it don't seem right to go to the colored rest room;... my daughter's brown, and folks frown on that in Texas, I just don't know how to go to the bathroom in the free world!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You've watched me all your life, I've clothed your wife,... put your two sons through college. What good has it done? Sun keeps rising every morning.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »