Preston Sturges Quotes

Though I believe in God, I don't believe in religion for everybody. Some people who are a little weak and don't want to shoulder any responsibility need Catholicism. For people at the other extreme, there is Christian Science... I think a powerful conscience is worth all the religions put together.

Preston Sturges

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 29, 1898 - August 6, 1959

Topics

GodScienceResponsibilityTogether

I wish I could get all the discourteous drivers on a ship and sail them away and make sure it's a really horrible, wavy journey and when they get to where they're going, keep them there.

Alvin Martin

JourneySailShipWishI WishGoing

With every generation comes a new wave of hopefuls: small-town escapees, European refugees, disaffected Londoners.

Amanda Foreman

GenerationWaveNewRefugeesEvery

You're never wasting your time as long as you learn from every single thing you do, whether you feel like those attempts are successful or not.

Tomi Adeyemi

TimeFeelLearnLongYouNever

For if any man who never saw fire proved by satisfactory arguments that fire burns. His hearer's mind would never be satisfied, nor would he avoid the fire until he put his hand in it that he might learn by experiment what argument taught.

Roger Bacon

FireManMindLearnArgumentHand

Real artists take the misery and sadness of life and translate it into art.

Josh Peck

LifeArtSadnessRealTakeArtists

I talk to my parents a couple of times a week. I talk to my daughters every day.

Denise Morrison

DayParentsWeekEvery DayTalk

The play is on top of me all the time, and I am constantly thinking about it. Even when I leave the theatre, I'll mumble the lines to myself or think about the way the character walks or holds himself.

Donald Pleasence

CharacterTimeMyselfI AmTheatre

The best way to help Burma is to empower the people of Burma, to help us have enough self-confidence to obtain what we want for ourselves.

Aung San Suu Kyi

BestPeopleEnoughHelpWantWay

Americans have a special horror of giving up control, of letting things happen in their own way without interference.

William S. Burroughs

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I thought I was loved.

William Shatner

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But the Constitution was made not only for southern and northern states, but for states neither northern nor southern, namely, the western states, their coming in being foreseen and provided for.

William H. Seward

ConstitutionComingBeingSouthern

I have a very set routine. I work six days a week, but only half days. I work from 9 in the morning till 1 in the afternoon, without any interruptions, a fair slug.

Peter Mayle

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