Nothing is too much trouble for the busy man.
If you ever want anything done, always ask the busy man.
The others never have time.
Preston Sturges
They’ve heard the call. Then, all of a sudden, they turn in their tools, and they’re gone.
Can’t wait another minute. They’ll quit at lunchtime, in the middle of the week.
They won’t even wait for their pay. Some other gang will collect their money and hold it
until a postcard comes back telling where to send it.
Joseph Mitchell
Open-mindedness means retention of the childlike attitude;
closed-mindedness means premature intellectual old age.
John Dewey
I have been, for many years, part of various theatre companies,
any one of which in its healthy state nearly resembles
a perfect community than any other group I have encountered.
David Mamet
I still feel kind of temporary about myself.
Arthur Miller
A furious work pace and good professional collaboration
can construct a fine corset against the onset of neuroses,
threatening breakdowns, and disintegration.
Ingmar Bergman
Well, Mr. Goldwyn, there is not much use in going on.
There is this difference between you and me:
You are only interested in art and I am only interested in money.
George Bernard Shaw
Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent.
George Orwell
The man of print culture is necessarily a self-educated man.
You can’t acquire book culture by oral means.
You have to struggle alone and in silence against
a distracting social environment which looks askance at your solitary quest.
Marshall McLuhan
Don’t take anything for granted.
Go and see for yourself.
Peter Brook
I have not a good memory, Meno, and therefore
I cannot now tell what I thought of him at the time.
And I dare say that he did know, and that you know what he said:
please, therefore, to remind me of what he said;
or, if you would rather, tell me your own view;
for I suspect that you and he think much alike.
Socrates
Of course, of course; just what I was going to remark myself.
The Dormouse
The unconscious mind has a habit of asserting itself in the afternoon.
Anthony Burgess
It comes as a surprise to me and always as a kind of shock
when I realise for a moment the continuity of most people’s lives.
T.S. Eliot
The voyage will not teach you anything
if you do not accord it the right to destroy you.
Nicolas Bouvier
I am not a leader of men, Willy, and neither are you.
Arthur Miller
Sometimes it’s necessary to go a long distance out of the way
in order to come back a short distance correctly.
Edward Albee
John Keats once said that the life of a man
of any worth is a continual allegory.
It is the corroding certainty of having lost the key
to this translucent kind of living
that eats the heart out on quiet summer evenings.
Alan McGlashan
I would prefer not to.
Bartleby
If you start to smell burning toast
you’re having a stroke
or overcooking your toast.
Bo Burnham
Every time I conduct the same piece
I think how stupid I was the last time I did it.
Arturo Toscanini
I only came about my cough.
Daniel Hirsh
