Preston Sturges Quotes

I worked out a rather deep-dish theory defining the theater as a form of architecture rather than a form of literature.

Preston Sturges

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

ArchitectureLiteratureOutTheory

It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.

Anatole France

InspirationalLivePeopleIdeasActs

Utopia means elsewhere.

John Malkovich

UtopiaMeansElsewhere

If God has made the world a perfect mechanism, He has at least conceded so much to our imperfect intellect that in order to predict little parts of it, we need not solve innumerable differential equations, but can use dice with fair success.

Max Born

SuccessGodWorldPerfectPredict

My greatest sense of accomplishment has come from having two amazing sons, but it's also a paradox in that the times when I felt like the biggest failure have been times when I felt like, as a parent, I wasn't making the right decisions or succeeding in the way that I should.

Michael Franti

FailureAmazingAccomplishmentParent

The odds of being successful are the same for every group that is educated in America. It's just that the group that is not wealthy is 95 percent of the population. So if there are 100 successful people in a room, probably 95 out of 100 came from more modest means.

Michael Eisner

PeopleAmericaGroupMoreOddsOut

Uber has to design for the global platform.

Masayoshi Son

DesignUberGlobalPlatform

Anybody can write a film script 'cuz it has been reduced to a formula.

Dirk Benedict

WriteFilmBeenAnybodyScriptCuz

My favorite movie of all time is probably 'Apocalypse Now.'

Dominic Monaghan

TimeNowFavoriteMovieApocalypse

We have to realize we are building a movement.

Dorothy Height

BuildingRealizeMovement

Every Democrat on Capitol Hill professes to be a fiscal hawk.

Bob Beauprez

HillHawkDemocratCapitolEvery

All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.

Thomas Jefferson

MindLawWillOppressionProtect

I have nothing, absolutely nothing against anyone who's homosexual. If that's their orientation, then I accept that. And I have no problem with someone who has other orientations.

Rick Santorum

SomeoneProblemNothingAcceptWho

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