Dalton Trumbo Quotes

A good businessman never makes a contract unless he's sure he can carry it through, yet every fool on earth is perfectly willing to sign a marriage contract without considering whether he can live up to it or not.

Dalton Trumbo

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 9, 1905 - September 10, 1976

Topics

GoodMarriageLiveFoolEarthNever

Almost every one of us interacts with the experience or sharing economy every day, and I'm proud that Rent the Runway has helped to popularize and normalize this behavior.

Jennifer Hyman

ExperienceDayProudBehaviorRent

Commissioners are obsessed with young people, which is funny because they don't watch telly - only old people do.

Jennifer Saunders

FunnyPeopleYoungOld PeopleOld

The web's strength lies precisely in its unique position as the world's first universal platform.

Jeffrey Zeldman

StrengthWorldUniqueFirstPosition

The best version of surfing is not competing, I think. It's just... it's perfect. You're perfectly present. You're perfectly in the moment. You're perfectly not thinking about anything else in the world. You're just surfing. You're surfing away with your friends or your family, and that's it. You're just there.

John John Florence

FamilyMomentBestWorldThinking

During my first marriage, my career was the most important thing in my life.

Michael Douglas

LifeMarriageMy LifeCareerFirst

I used to get 15-20 bunt hits a season. Now, I'm down to five or six. Infielders still play me in, but I'm always looking if the opportunity is there.

Steve Finley

OpportunityMeLookingDownPlay

Making a movie where the central character is a horse was a challenge. Because I'm scared of riding. I was thrown as a kid. One of my daughters is a competitive jumper, we live with horses, we have stables on our property. But I don't ride. I observe, and I worry.

Steven Spielberg

LiveCharacterChallengeRideWorry

What politicians do is they never get the rhetoric wrong, and the price they pay is they don't speak the truth as they see it. Now, I will speak truth as I see it, and sometimes I don't get the rhetoric right. I think that's a fair trade-off.

Mary Beard

TruthSpeakThinkWrongSometimes

Four or five frigates will do the business without any military force.

Lord North

BusinessWillMilitaryWithoutForce

My parents never raised their hand or fired me. Their way of disciplining me was to tell me what is right or wrong.

Deepika Padukone

ParentsMeWrongHandWayNever

I am serious about my sleep.

Constance Marie

SleepI AmSeriousAboutAm

I was very lucky to have a mother who encouraged me to become a poet.

Philip Levine

MotherMeBecomeLuckyPoetWho

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