Putting people in a room and strapping wires to their wrist to find out if I make them tingle when I'm telling them about Beirut i...s a long way from Edward R. Murrow.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Alicia Huberman: Look, I'll make it easy for you. The time has come when you must tell me that you have a wife and two adorable ch...ildren, and this madness between us can't go on any longer. T.R. Devlin: I bet you've heard that line often enough. Alicia: Right below the belt every time. Oh that isn't fair, Dev. Devlin: Skip it. We have other things to talk about. We have a job.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Captain Prescott: I don't like this. I don't like her coming here. Mr. Beardsley: She's had me worried for some time, a woman... of that sort. T.R. Devlin: What sort is that, Mr. Beardsley? Mr. Beardsley: I don't think any of us have any illusions about her character, have we Devlin? Devlin: Not at all. Not in the slightest. Miss Huberman is first, last, and always not a lady. She may be risking her life, but when it comes to being a lady, she doesn't hold a candle to your wife, sir, sitting in Washington playing bridge with three other ladies of great honor and virtue.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
George the First was always reckoned Vile, but viler George the Second;... And what mortal ever heard Any good of George the Third? When from earth the Fourth descended (God be praised!) the Georges ended.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
How comes it that you curse, Frere Jean? It's only, said the monk, in order to embellish my language. They are the colors of Cicer...onian rhetoric.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
At man's core there is a voice that wants him never to give in to fear. But if it is true that in general man cannot give in to fe...ar, at the very least he postpones indefinitely the moment when he will have to confront himself with the object of his fear ... when he will no longer have the assistance of reason as guaranteed by God, or when he will no longer have the assistance of God such as reason guaranteed. It is necessary to recoil, but it is necessary to leap, and perhaps one only recoils in order to leap better.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There are three roads to ruin; women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, bu...t the surest is with technicians.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The star is the ultimate American verification of Jean Jacques Rousseau's Emile. His mere existence proves the perfectability of a...ny man or woman. Oh wonderful pliability of human nature, in a society where anyone can become a celebrity! And where any celebrity ... may become a star!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I know [my label], in any case: a double face, a charming Janus, and underneath, the house motto: "Be wary". On my business cards:... "Jean-Baptiste Clamence, actor".LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »