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As well might it be said that, because we are ignorant of the laws by which metals are produced and trees developed, we cannot know anything of the origin of steamships and railways. ”
The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor, live for it, and if need be, die for it. ”
Crime does not pay as well as politics. ”
I go where the sound of thunder is. ”
The secret of my success? I speak in a loud clear voice and try not to bump into the furniture. ”
We shall not have succeeded in demolishing everything unless we demolish the ruins as well. But the only way I can see of doing that is to use them to put up a lot of fine, well-designed buildings. ”
Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in visual terms. ”
If it's a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on. ”
These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equalled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig. ”
Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it. ”