Adolph Zukor Quotes

#1. Beginning with a trip out to Ellis Island, I saw for myself where thousands of European immigrants took their first steps onto American soil, bringing with them nothing but their ambition: people such as Erich von Stroheim and Adolph Zukor.

Paul Merton

#2. I am inclined to attach some importance to the new system of manufacturing; and venture to throw it out with the hope of its receiving a full discussion among those who are most interestedin the subject.

Charles Babbage

#3. The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.

Aldous Huxley

#4. I can play a lot of things, but I haven't mastered any one. I use music really as a form of raw expression; escape from the real world.

Adrian Grenier

#5. As muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone, it could be argued that those who sit quietly and do nothing are making one of the best possible contributions to a world in turmoil.

Alan Watts

#6. In the depths of him, he too didn't want to go. But he was a born American, and if anything was on show, he had to see it. That was Life.

D.H. Lawrence

#7. He shed a lake of blood and murdered a king for a cold, lonely throne.

Jayne Castel

#8. Time is eating away my memory. Time, and this illness, this trespasser in my brain.

Tan Twan Eng

#9. You probably have to trust that your work is following certain themes and certain movements, but then the rest is a kind of piecing together so that the whole becomes larger than the parts.

Jess Walter

#10. Donald Trump believed that the whole history of trade agreements, most of which I've supported over the years, have not been effective, and I've come to believe he's right.

Jeff Sessions

#11. Divide and rule is the way Congress does their politics while we say let's unite and do development.

Narendra Modi

#12. I'm incredibly happy, I'm incredibly lucky.

Zachary Quinto

#13. I think some of the things I deal with Hopper probably has dealt with also, since it's somewhat the same environment and I have pretty strong reactions to what this country looks like. It looks pretty dull and spare, and you like this and dislike it and it's very complicated.

Donald Judd

#14. Rather than lose the public because television is here, wouldn't it be smart to adopt television as our instrument?

Adolph Zukor

#15. I do find acting cathartic.

Francesca Annis

#16. The public is never wrong.

Adolph Zukor

#17. So he left the lagoon and entered the jungle again, within a few days was completely lost, following the lagoons southward through the increasing rain and heat, attacked by alligators and giant bats, a second Adam searching for the forgotten paradises of the reborn Sun.

J.G. Ballard

#18. What falls away is always. And is near.

Theodore Roethke