Cinephiles Website Quotes

#1. Before an attack, the platoon pools all its available cash and the survivors divide it up afterwards. Those who are killed can't complain, the wounded would have given far more than that to escape as they have, and the unwounded regard the money as a consolation prize for still being here.

Robert Graves

#2. The only way to find out is to find out.

Frank Lucas

#3. The real purpose of running isn't to win a race, it's to test the limits of the human heart.

Bill Bowerman

#4. Teens today rule the world. The whole culture - movies, music - is pointed at young people. They have so 'much' power.

James Franco

#5. For the painful essence of withdrawal does not reside in the present suffering it brings - withdrawal is painless on the level of the immediate moment - but in the prospect of suffering to come, the rich future that one can imagine one's torture enjoying.

Jean-Philippe Toussaint

#6. I don't do drugs. I never have taken any drugs. I don't believe in them.

Florence Griffith Joyner

#7. Monsters, among other brutes, are the ones without guilt feelings. Perhaps Hitler did not have any, or Himmler, or Stalin. Maybe Mafia bosses do not have any guilt feelings either, or maybe their remains are just well hidden in the cellar. Even aborted guilt feelings ... All men need guilt feelings.

Pope Benedict XVI

#8. From my boyhood I have had an intense and overwhelming conviction that my real vocation lay in the direction of literature. I have, however, had a most unaccountable difficulty in getting any responsible person to share my views.
- Cyprian Overbeck Wells: A Literary Mosaic

Arthur Conan Doyle