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Author Topic: Favorite quotes from anywhere! Stephen Brown Film Handler Posts: 91 From: Newcastle, NSW, Australia Registered: Jan 2000 posted 08-29-2003 07:18 AM                     Robin Williams on making a special Effects movie..... "Making a special effects movie is like masturbating with a Cheese Grater. Sure at the start its all new and interesting, but as it goes on it just turns into a real pain...." Steve Brown  |  IP: Logged System Notices Forum Watchdog / Soup Nazi Posts: 215 Registered: Apr 2004 posted 11-25-2004 07:21 AM                 It has been 454 days since the last post.  |  IP: Logged William Hooper Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1879 From: Mobile, AL USA Registered: Jun 99 posted 11-25-2004 07:21 AM                        I'd forgotten about this one, which folks here may like: quote: Often enough, in those days, I found a fitness in the lines of Omar: We are no other than a moving show Of Magic Shadow-shapes that come and go Round with the Sun-illumined Lantern held In Midnight by the Master of the Show. It's a little over-romaticized for my taste; I still like Gordon McLeod's stuff better.  |  IP: Logged Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 11-25-2004 12:52 PM                       quote: Stephen Brown Robin Williams on making a special Effects movie..... "Making a special effects movie is like masturbating with a Cheese Grater. Such a class act, that guy.  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 11-25-2004 03:05 PM                        'Bugger Bognor!' - King George VI's dying words in 1937, after being told by his doctor that he'd soon recover from cancer enough to recuperate at the south coast resort of Bognor Regis.  |  IP: Logged Dustin Mitchell Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1865 From: Mondovi, WI, USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 11-25-2004 03:37 PM                     "I may be drunk but you are ugly. Tommorrow I'll be sober but you'll still be ugly." -Winston Churchill to Bessie Badcock (or was it Babcock?), a socialist member of parlaiment he didn't particularily like  |  IP: Logged Stephen Furley Film God Posts: 3059 From: Coulsdon, Croydon, England Registered: May 2002 posted 11-25-2004 03:45 PM                     "Sir, you are drunk" "Madam, you are ugly, and in the morning I shall be sober" and "Sir, if you were my husband I would put poison in your drink" "Madam, if you were my wife, I'd drink it" Allegedly said by Wnston Churchill and Bessie Braddock (British Labour Party Member of Parliament for Liverpool Exchange, and a rather formidible looking woman). Whether it really was said, I don't know. Edit. Dustin, you beat me to it, your post came in while I was still writing mine. There are some pictures of Mrs. Braddock here She was famous in her day, but is almost forgotten now. Despite her somewhat fearsome looks, she had a reputation as a kindly person, and I think her rivalry with the p.m. was a friendly one.  |  IP: Logged David Favel Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 764 From: Ashburton, New Zealand Registered: Feb 2002 posted 11-25-2004 03:52 PM                     I love my life. I love my wife. And I wish you my kind of success.  |  IP: Logged Allison Parsons Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 630 From: East Peoria, IL Registered: Oct 2004 posted 11-25-2004 03:56 PM                        "My human tied me in a bag and threw'd me in the water" --little kittie in Babe Pig In the City movie "Free is good, even when it's bad" --me "What shitty band are you in?" t-shirt saying  |  IP: Logged Dustin Mitchell Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1865 From: Mondovi, WI, USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 11-25-2004 04:07 PM                     Stephen, your's is probably more accurate, I was going off of memory from when I read "Great Political Wit", a book of famous political quotes compiled by Bob Dole. Some more Churchill: One day in the lavatory Winston came in to do his business. Clement Atlee, head of the Labour Party and thus a rival of Churchill, was already 'shaking hands with an old friend). Churchill choose a urinal as far away from Atleee as he could get. Atlee: "Feeling a bit standoffish today, Winston?" Churchill: "That's right, every time you see something big you want to nationalize it." Churchill on his time in South Africa "Because the water was bad we had to drink whiskey. By diligent effort, we learned to like it."  |  IP: Logged Stephen Furley Film God Posts: 3059 From: Coulsdon, Croydon, England Registered: May 2002 posted 11-25-2004 05:13 PM                     Dustin, There are many versions; what the actual words were, if it ever was said, I don't know. I think all of Churchill's quotes really need to be heard in his voice; reading them, or hearing them spoken in another voice, isn't the same. Another famous one, of course, "Some chicken, some neck." Very effective use of few words. I've just noticed the name of the elephant at the bottom of the Bessie Braddock page; quite appropriate for a film site! Leo, I can't remember which George said that, but you've got either the King, or the date wrong, it would have been George V who died in 1937, George VI in 1952. V died slowly, with announcements on the radio that "The King's life is drawing steadily towards its close" on the radio, every hour I think it was. VI died suddenly while quite young, and the news of his death had to be conveyed to the new Queen who was out of the Country, in Kenya if I remember correctly, at the time. I think VI died of cancer; I don't know what V died of.  |  IP: Logged Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 11-25-2004 08:14 PM                       The sooner you make your first five thousand mistakes, the sooner you will be able to correct them. -Kimon Nicolaides  |  IP: Logged Chris Byrne Expert Film Handler Posts: 102 From: Kirwan, Australia Registered: Jan 2003 posted 11-26-2004 08:01 PM                     "You either make dust or you eat it" "No failure is ever final, nor is any success" "Your religion is what you do when the sermon is over" "Don't brag. It's not the whistle that moves the train" "One road taken is another forsaken" "You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist" ... Indira Ghandi "If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything" ... Mark Twain It's a capital mistake to theorise before you have data" ... Sherlock Holmes  |  IP: Logged

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