1930s Film Quotes

#1. Beginning in the 1920s and 1930s, film has been a shadow thrown over the minds of all novelists. Ever since, novelists have strained to make themselves more relevant and, whether consciously or not, novel-writing has been influenced by cinematic doctrines - by turns, embracing and defying it.

Matthew Pearl

#2. A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in.

Frederick The Great

#3. This is a nonstop flight to New York. Thank you for flying Cuelebre Airlines.
"You're not funny!" she screamed out loud. Dragon laughter filled her head.

Thea Harrison

#4. The town slowly wakes up around him with its foreign-made cars and its statistics and credit card debt and all its other crap.

Fredrik Backman

#5. 'Kit Kittredge' was an amazing experience because I got to go to Canada, and it was my first 'era' film, so I got to wear the 1930s clothes, the real vintage clothes.

Madison Davenport

#6. Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.

Bernard Malamud

#7. On a certain day, I will tweet five times, and then I'll go four days without tweeting at all. It really depends on what time allows. Twitter, priority-wise, has to come after the work is done.

Seth MacFarlane

#8. When people are judged by merit, not connections, then the best and brightest can lead the country, people will work hard, and the entire economy will grow - everyone will benefit and more resources will be available for all, not just select groups.

Barack Obama

#9. In an hour, you'll be in hell or glory.

Cadmus M. Wilcox

#10. I'm a huge fan of 1930s horror - Universal films. I grew up with them and I just absolutely love them.

Marco Pirroni

#11. What we glean from travellers' vivid descriptions has a special charm; whatever is far off and suggestive excites our imagination; such pleasures tempt us far more than anything we may daily experience in the narrow circle of sedentary life.

Alexander Von Humboldt

#12. When you work regularly, inspiration strikes regularly.

Gretchen Rubin

#13. Audio is the only medium you can consume while you're multitasking.

Alex Blumberg

#14. I would love to do a movie naked; it would be beautiful. No one dares make that kind of film today. They did it in the 1930s in an arty way, so why not now?

Megan Fox

#15. But who knows why a man, though suffering, clings, above all the other well members, to the arm or leg which he knows must come off?

William Faulkner

#16. I think of 'The Hobbit' as more like a boy's own film, like those annuals from the 1930s and 1940s.

Mark Hadlow

#17. May you always remember the Beloved is your divine and sacred self.

Earthschool Harmony

#18. 'Flying Down to Rio' established RKO as a leader in musical film production throughout the 1930s. The film helped to rescue the studio from its financial straits and it gave a real boost to my movie career.

Ginger Rogers

#19. I am fascinated by Spinoza's pantheism, but admire even more his contributions to modern thought because he is the first philosopher to deal with the soul and the body as one, not two separate things

Albert Einstein

#20. It was not possible to film in California, because all the areas are heavily built up now. Coming to Cape Town is an invitation to step into the past and recreate Los Angeles of the 1930s.

Robert Towne

#21. If you want to achieve immortality, see what you can do about getting yourself turned into a Pentagon program.

Rachel Maddow