I used to like this town.... Los Angeles was just a big dry sunny place with ugly homes and no style, but good-hearted and peacefu...l.... Now ... we've got the big money, the sharpshooters, the percentage workers, the fast dollar boys, the hoodlums out of New York and Chicago and Detroit--and Cleveland. We've got the flash restaurants and night clubs they run, and the hotels and apartment houses they own, and the grifters and con men and female bandits that live in them. The luxury trades, the pansy decorators, the Lesbian dress designers, the riff-raff of a big hardboiled city with no more personality than a paper cup.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
So long as State constitutions say that all may vote when twenty-one, save idiots, lunatics, convicts and women, you are brought d...own politically to the level of those others disfranchised.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We have had more brilliant Presidents than Cleveland, and one or two who were considerably more profound, but we have never had on...e, at least since Washington, whose fundamental character was solider and more admirable.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Here lies a man who was killed by lightning; He died when his prospects seemed to be brightening.... He might have cut a flash in this world of trouble, But the flash cut him, and he lies in the stubble.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I don't think of myself as a sex symbol or a servant. I think of myself as somebody who knows how to open the door of a 747 in the... dark, upside down, and under water.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understan...ding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »