1971 Movie Quotes

#1. Play well, or play badly, but play truly.

Constantin Stanislavski

#2. What a strange creature is a laughing fool,
As if a man were created to no use
But only to show his teeth.

John Webster

#3. If we continue to believe as we have always believed, we will continue to act as we have always acted. If we continue to act as we have always acted, we will continue to get what we have always gotten.

Marilyn Ferguson

#4. Mom and Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married. He was eighteen, she was sixteen and I was three.

Billie Holiday

#5. Man is immortal till his work is done.

James Williams

#6. The happy consciousness is shaky enough a thin surface over fear, frustration, and disgust.

Herbert Marcuse

#7. In politics, the pen is at its heaviest because it is weighed down by the collective responsibility it holds towards its people and their future in the eyes of the world.

Aysha Taryam

#8. The world is filled with so many beautiful people after all and who am I to think that you will hold on, hold on to me, because who am I and what are we?

Charlotte Eriksson

#9. You must remember, too," he added, "that we deal with no ordinary criminal, but with the second greatest brain in the world." I forbore to pander to his conceit by asking the obvious question.

Agatha Christie

#10. And revolutions always mean the breakdown of old authority.

Hu Shih

#11. Should the discovery of fire have been avoided because arsonists can misuse it? Any kind of information can be misused by those who are determined to do so. The place to stop the misuse of knowledge is not at the point of inquiry, but at the point of misuse.

Arthur R. Jensen

#12. Things rust, you know, like the heart. My cardiologist said, 'It's a pump; use it - that's the sole advice I've got to give you.' It's the same in playwriting. Don't theorise about it. Do it.

Peter Shaffer

#13. You don't like pink?" "I shouldn't think anyone likes pink as much as that room does," said Bryony.

T. Kingfisher

#14. The common vice of democracy is disregard for morality.

Lord Acton

#15. When can I drive the new ride?" "When you learn that a yellow light means haul ass to get through it before it turns red instead of slowing down to a crawl a half a block away.

J.D. Robb

#16. From 1971 onwards, the Memorial Day holiday was officially observed on the last Monday in May and became the unofficial start of the summer, with barbecues, blockbuster movie openings and mattress sales.

Allen West