Knebel's 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 think one of the terrible things today is that people have this deathly fear of food: fear of eggs, say, or fear of butter. Most doctors feel that you can have a little bit of everything.

Julia Child

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

Fletcher Knebel

#5. It's always a great day going to work with Ginnifer Goodwin; she's a fantastic actress and I learn so much from her.

Josh Dallas

#6. 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

#7. You want to create a country with millions of great magicians? Then let the free thinking prevails everywhere. And thus creativity will increase and creativity is the greatest magician in our universe.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

Fletcher Knebel

#9. Farmers spend more time at Conventions than they do plowing.

Will Rogers

#10. After film school, I would write 8 hours a day on film and 8 hours a night on TV, and then sleep once and a while.

Tobias Lindholm

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

Fletcher Knebel

#12. If only we could crawl inside our dreams and live there. Why can't I live inside my dream?

Meg Howrey

#13. 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

#14. Keep in mind that if you never answer the door, people will stop knocking.

Abby Fabiaschi

#15. True hope is based on energy of character. A strong mind always hopes!!

Karl Ludwig Von Knebel

#16. The Proverbs 31 woman is not the model of a perfect woman. She is the model of a committed woman under God.

Tony Evans

#17. The bane of Terri's life could use a prescription of Prozac.' (Terri)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#18. You possess other people's ... bodies."
He accepted that statement with a nod.
"Do you want to possess my body?"
"I want to do a lot of things to your body, but that's not one of them.

Becca Fitzpatrick

#19. Sceptics are generally ready to believe anything, provided it is sufficiently improbable.

Karl Ludwig Von Knebel

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

Fletcher Knebel

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

Fletcher Knebel

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

Fletcher Knebel

#23. Those who are pure of heart find new thoughts whenever they meditate.

Nachman Of Breslov

#24. I was never interested in looking at myself in an aesthetic mirror. My intention was always to get away from myself, though I knew perfectly well that I was using myself. Call it a little game between 'I' and 'me.'

Marcel Duchamp

#25. The sceptic only stumbles at matter of fact.

Karl Ludwig Von Knebel

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

Fletcher Knebel

#27. Hope awakens courage. He who can implant courage in the human soul is the best physician.

Karl Ludwig Von Knebel

#28. There is a challenge of doing something new. Sometimes you have to suspend whether you believe in yourself doing it and just give yourself over to the idea that they believe in you.

Josh Peck

#29. A man becomes creative, whether he is an artist or scientist, when he finds a new unity in the variety of nature. He does so by finding a likeness between things which were not thought alike before.

Jacob Bronowski