Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
You have to protect your writing time. You have to protect it to the death.
Never argue with your wife about hostility when she's a certified Freudian.
One way an author dies a little each day is when his books go out of print.
He's right on top of us. I wonder if he is using the same wind we are using.
You are wonderful, Father.""I'm more than wonderful, how dare you insult me.
I don't guess. I think. I ponder. I deduce. Then I decide. But I never guess.
Life is difficult. Anyone who says different is trying to sell you something.
Life is pain, highness. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something.
It’s an accepted fact that all writers are crazy, even the normal ones are weird.
Who are you?" "No one of consequence." "I must know." "Get used to disappointment.
"We’ll never survive!” “Nonsense. You’re only saying that because no one ever has."
He was the mighty Fezzik, lover of rhymes, and you did not give up, no matter what.
Good night, Westley. Good work. Sleep well. I'll most likely kill you in the morning.
Inconceivable!" "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
You are trying to kidnap what I have rightfully stolen, and I think it quite ungentlemanly.
Do I love you? My God, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches.
If you're going to abridge a book in the author's own words, you can't go sticking your own in.
There were some things you did, no matter what, and when a friend needed help, you helped them.
One of the easiest things in the world is not to write... If it were easy, everyone would do it.
The Duchess set about studying Annette and shortly found her adversary's tragic flaw. Chocolate.
He had risked his life and now it was walking away from him, hand-in-hand with a Ruffian prince.
Inside and out, Westley's world was ripping apart and he could do nothing but crack along with it.
The easiest thing to do on earth is not write…But this is life on earth, you can't have everything.
If all that's going on in your scenes is what's going on in your scenes, think about it a long time.
There’s death coming up, and you better understand this:some of the wrong people die.Be ready for it.
Miracle Max: Have fun stormin' da castle. Valerie: Think it'll work? Miracle Max: It would take a miracle.
As far as the filmmaking process is concerned, stars are essentially worthless - and absolutely essential.
Yes, I am a failed playwright. I had three shows on Broadway by the time I was 30. They all flopped, and I fled.
Anything there is that I can do for you, I will do for you; anything there is that I cannot do, I will learn to do.
I've been in the revenge buisness for so long, now that it's over I don't know what to do with the rest of my life.
If you think of human experience as a pie, then the wedge Hollywood is reflecting now is getting smaller and smaller.
When was the last time you read a book? The truth now. And picture books don't count-I mean something with print in it.
I seemed busy, busy, busy, but I suppose, if pressed, I might have admitted that, for all my frenzy, I was very much alone.
"I could give you my word as a Spaniard," Inigo said. "No good," the man in black replied. "I've known too many Spaniards."
I don't like killing a girl," the Spaniard said. "God does it all the time; if it doesn't bother Him, don't let it worry you.
I love you. Okay? Want it louder? I LOVE YOU. Spell it out, should I? I ell-oh-vee-ee why-oh-you. Want it backward? You love I.
Let's look on the bright side: we're having an adventure, Fezzik, and most people live and die without being as lucky as we are.
You seem a decent fellow," Inigo said. "I hate to kill you." You seem a decent fellow," answered the man in black. "I hate to die.
Enough about my beauty," Buttercup said. "Everybody always talks about how beautiful I am. I've got a mind, Westley. Talk about that.
Look, are you just fiddling around with me or what?" "I just want you to feel you're doing well. I hate for people o die embarrassed.
I don't want the power. When a project is given to me, and I say yes, I'm gonna oblige everybody who has the power to try to make it work.
Why do you wear a mask and hood?" I think everybody will in the near future," was the man in black's reply. "They're terribly comfortable.
There is one crucial rule that must be followed in all creative meetings. Never speak first. At least at the start, your job is to shut up.
At 8:23 there seemed every chance of a lasting alliance starting between Florin and Guilder. At 8:24 the two nations were very close to war.
Fezzik's in trouble, bubble bubble, His brain is just not in the pink, His mind is rubble, rub-a-dub double, Because everyone needs him to think.
Since the invention of the kiss, there have only been five kisses that were rated the most passionate, the most pure. This one left them all behind.
You don't want to be rude but you have to be careful - there are a lot of strange people out there. (Goldman attributes this quote to Cliff Robertson.)
Someone would have to keep his wits, and he had assumed automatically that since Fezzik had so few, he would find retaining them not all that difficult.
I just know once you're over your emotional outbursts, you'll come up with-' I mean if we even had a wheelbarrow, that would be something,' Westley said.
For you see each day I love you more today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow. Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.