Fletcher Knebel Quotes

#1. Jack Kennedy very much enjoyed Fletcher Knebel's thriller 'Seven Days in May,' later a film. The story: a jingo based on the real-life Admiral Arthur Radford plans a military coup to take over the White House.

Gore Vidal

#2. I could feel the hair rising on my forearms, as though with cold, and rubbed them uneasily. Two hundred years. From 1945 to 1743; yes, near enough. And women who traveled through the rocks. Was it always women? I wondered suddenly.

Diana Gabaldon

#3. No other city in the U.S. can divest the visitor of so much money with so little enthusiasm. In Dallas, they take away with gusto; in New Orleans, with a bow; in San Francisco, with a wink and a grin. In New York, you're lucky if you get a grunt.

Fletcher Knebel

#4. As the director, you're meant to be critical and you are, so there are loads of things. But the thing is, the way I look at it is, to try to get some measure of success, it's dangerous to look at financial or critical success, or positive response as a measure.

David Slade

#5. When you're making pictures out of heartfelt passion, it hurts when someone calls them a calculated business move.

Michael Douglas

#6. Finally it has penetrated my thick skull. This life-this moment-is no dress rehearsal. This is it.

Fletcher Knebel

#7. Hollywood, to hear some writers tell it, is the place where they take an author's steak tartare and make cheeseburger out of it. Upon seeing the film, they say, the author promptly cuts his throat, bleeding to death in a pool of money.

Fletcher Knebel

#8. A decision is what a man makes when he can't find anybody to serve on a committee.

Fletcher Knebel

#9. Go ahead, God, you fat, filthy motherfucker, lightning-bolt my ass into oblivion if you're so tough!

Jeri Smith-Ready

#10. With every drop of water you drink, every breath you take, you're connected to the sea. No matter where on Earth you live. Most of the oxygen in the atmosphere is generated by the sea.

Sylvia Earle

#11. Our forefathers made one mistake. What they should have fought for was representation without taxation.

Fletcher Knebel

#12. I do my workouts in the morning, and often I'll take someone from my team. The person I'm meeting with can pick the class, whether it's a spin or barre class, or going for a power walk. It's hard to run and talk - I haven't mastered that yet.

Alexa Von Tobel

#13. I'm not a macroeconomics person.

Bill Gates

#14. They said they respect me, which means, their judgment is crazy.

Morrissey

#15. Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians.

Fletcher Knebel

#16. I love that moment when I feel a connection to another person, however brief or insignificant.

Tohoru Masamune

#17. If a man be without the virtues proper to humanity, what has he to do with music?

Confucius

#18. Find a man with both feet firmly on the ground and you've found a man about to make a difficult putt.

Fletcher Knebel

#19. Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.

Fletcher Knebel

#20. The convention is the voice, the bone and the sinews of a political party-and sometimes it even nominates an Abraham Lincoln.

Fletcher Knebel

#21. There are--plenty--without you."
"That isn't the point, Rilla-my-Rilla. I'm going for my own sake--to save my soul alive. It will shrink to something small and mean and lifeless if I don't go. That would be worse than blindness or mutilation or any of the things I've feared.

L.M. Montgomery

#22. Never give up. For fifty years they said the horse was through. Now look at him - a status symbol.

Fletcher Knebel

#23. I would rather be a man of conviction than a man of conformity

Martin Luther King Jr.

#24. I hate hateful people.

CeeLo Green

#25. Keep a definite goal of achievement constantly in view. Realize that work well and worthily done makes life truly worth living.

Grenville Kleiser