Vivian Rutledge: So you do get up. I was beginning to think perhaps you worked in bed like Marcel Proust. Philip Marlowe: Who...'s he? Vivian: You wouldn't know him. French writer. Marlowe: Come into my boudoir.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When I was very young and first worked in Hollywood, the films had bred in me one sole ambition: to get away from them; to live in... the great world outside movies; to meet people who created their own situations through living them; who ad-libbed their own dialogue; whose jokes were not the contrivance of some gag writer.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When I was very young and the urge to be someplace was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would cure this itch. W...hen years described me as mature, the remedy prescribed was middle age. In middle age I was assured that greater age would calm my fever and now that I am fifty-eight perhaps senility will do the job. Nothing has worked.... In other words, I don't improve, in further words, once a bum always a bum. I fear the disease is incurable.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I will never accept that I got a free ride. It wasn't free at all. My ancestors were brought here against their will. They were ma...de to work and help build the country. I worked in the cotton fields from the age of seven. I worked in the laundry for twenty- three years. I worked for the national organization for nine years. I just retired from city government after twelve-and-a- half years.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The conviction that the best way to prepare children for a harsh, rapidly changing world is to introduce formal instruction at an ...early age is wrong. There is simply no evidence to support it, and considerable evidence against it. Starting children early academically has not worked in the past and is not working now.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This day I have sent couriers to every part of our country, to every city and village. They carry this decree. That I have set a t...ask for Egypt, which in any other land would be impossible on the desert sands. You will raise a pyramid, a structure greater than any in the world. This pyramid shall be resting place for the second life. Each man has a covenant with me to work as man has not yet worked in all time. And as the living God of Egypt, I promise you that each man by his labor shall secure for himself a place in the life to come.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I recalled when I worked in the woods and the bars of Madras, Oregon.... That short-haired joy and roughness-- America--your stupidity. I could almost love you again.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We've no use for intellectuals in this outfit. What we need is chimpanzees. Let me give you a word of advice: never say a word to ...us about being intelligent. We will think for you, my friend. Don't forget it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If any proof were needed of the progress of the cause for which I have worked, it is here tonight. The presence on the stage of th...ese college women, and in the audience of all those college girls who will some day be the nation's greatest strength, will tell their own story to the world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »