Top 100 Melvin Quotes
#1. Do you know what I did? I urrrrrinated on the cake at my ex-wife's wedding. Pissssed all over the icing.
Melvin Baylor - Seven Up
Janet Evanovich
#2. Go sell crazy someplace else; we're all stocked up."
(Melvin Udall aka Jack Nicholson, 1997)
Jack Nicholson
#3. What does borderline personality mean, anyhow? It appears to be a way station between neurosis and psychosis: a fractured but not disassembled psyche. Though to quote my post-Melvin psychiatrist: "It's what they call people whose lifestyles bother them.
Susanna Kaysen
#4. Zinnia always wants to hug me and pat me because she has a boy my same age named Melvin. I said maybe some day Melvin could come play at our farm, and I could bring him to the maze and show him the shortcuts. Zinnia started crying. That's when I seen that she has freckles.
Wally Lamb
#5. Feeling a little grumpy, Melvin decided he would no longer take a bath ever again. Therefore, with that in mind, he marched off into the woods.
Cindy Fisk
#6. Since the police knew who killed Debbie Carter, they helpfully informed Melvin Hett.
John Grisham
#7. My great-grandfather Melvin had been a carpenter - so was my father - and they taught me the value of tools: saws, hammers, chisels, files and rulers. It all dealt with conciseness and precision. It eliminated guesswork. One has to know his tools, so he doesn't work against himself.
Yusef Komunyakaa
#8. My father, Melvin van Peebles, and my mother were both very active politically when I was a kid. The first time I was allowed to stay up late was to attend a demonstration.
Mario Van Peebles
#9. James got some good looks that he just didn't knock down, as did Buckley. James has been pretty consistent, but the reality is when he and Melvin go 2 for 21 and Solomon (Jones) only gets four offensive rebounds, this is going to be the outcome.
Robert McCullum
#10. The poet Melvin B. Tolson once said, 'A civilization is judged only in its decline.' That made sense to me. I would imagine the same is true for poets and tennis players.
Nikki Giovanni
#11. I'd like to introduce a man with a lot of charm, talent, and wit. Unfortunately, he couldn't be here tonight, so instead ...
Melvin Helitzer
#12. The only thing that isn't free is you. You do as you're told. You sit in your seat until they say 'Stand'. You stay put til they say 'Go'. Maybe that's the way you like it. It's easy. It's all there. You don't have to think about. You don't even have to feel it.
Melvin Burgess
#13. Being a teenager is as difficult as living with one. And we've all been there. Perhaps that's the reason we're so hard on them.
Melvin Burgess
#14. I make a film like I cook for friends. I hope they like it, but if they don't, I'm prepared to enjoy it all by myself.
Melvin Van Peebles
#16. He'd come back, all open and helpless, and I suppose that's what won her around in the end. But it was so sad, because it was being himself that he found so difficult to cope with.
Melvin Burgess
#17. It's psychologically impossible to hate someone with whom you've laughed.
Melvin Helitzer
#19. In order to be treated fairly and equally, chidren have to be treated differently.
Melvin Konner
#20. It wasn't a love story." -Tar's dad
It was a love story. Me, Gemma, and junk." -Tar
Melvin Burgess
#21. To express to you in mere words, our personal feelings on this occasion you must know to be impossible, and particularly so for one who normally has to describe only things outside himself.
Melvin Calvin
#22. If the audience knows what's behind the door and the actor does not, that's comedy. If both the audience and the actor do not know, that's mystery!
Melvin Helitzer
#23. I have learned that it is easier to say later what one should have said before, than to unsay what should not have been said at all.
Melvin R. Starr
#24. A child is born with no state of mind,
Blind to the ways of mankind.
God is smilin' on you but He's frownin' too,
Because only God knows what you'll go through.
Melvin Glover
#25. I don't consider myself a sociologist, I consider myself a filmmaker, among other things. Maybe an asshole but a filmmaker.
Melvin Van Peebles
#27. I don't appreciate the disrespect, because I've been playing hurt for a guy who won't respect you. I don't deserve it ... It's time for me to move on.
Melvin Mora
#28. A touching and compassionate yet completely professional account of the psychological
indeed spiritual
dimensions of the doctorDpatient relationship that make the difference between fixing and healing.
Melvin Konner
#29. Watching baseball under the lights is like observing dogs indoors, at a pedigree show. In both instances, the environment is too controlled to suit the species.
Melvin Maddocks
#30. I reserve hatred for a select few. And even then, I'm ashamed of it.
Jim Melvin
#31. The only thing suffering teaches us is that we are capable of suffering.
Melvin Jules Bukiet
#32. People are always talking about love like it's something everyday. People say they love their parents, but what does that mean?
Melvin Burgess
#33. One thing I can guarantee you. You may not be a great deal wiser from my talk today, but you will be a great deal older.
Melvin Helitzer
#35. Except perhaps to our God, we all have a facade, even to our closest friends; some of us even to ourselves ... It may not be good that we have it, but I don't believe the state or anyone else has a right to pierce that facade without the individual's consent.
Melvin Belli
#36. Essentially, I'm, most of all, a writer. So, what makes people tick interests me.
Melvin Van Peebles
#37. Getting kicked out of the American Bar Association is like getting kicked out of the Book-of-the-Month Club.
Melvin Belli
#38. Nothing is more idealistic than a journalist on the defensive.
Melvin Maddocks
#39. Regrets grow tiresome
Melvin
#40. If it's a choice between being shat on and pissed on and used and being a bastard, I'll choose being a bastard any time.
Melvin Burgess
#41. I can't read or write music. When I want to remember something, I try to remember all the keys on the piano. Which is what I still do. I put the numbers on the keys. And that's got to become music again.
Melvin Van Peebles
#42. There is only one way by which the nations can be brought into unity and into peace and into brotherhood. This is not through guns, nor might, nor force, but through the power of God and the love of our fellowmen that is in the hearts of this people.
Melvin J. Ballard
#43. When the exceptional historian comes along, you have a poet.
Melvin B. Tolson
#44. The beauty of physics lies in the extent which seemingly complex and unrelated phenomena can be explained and correlated through a high level of abstraction by a set of laws which are amazing in their simplicity.
Melvin Schwartz
#45. Giving jazz the Congressional seal of approval is a little like making Huck Finn an honorary Boy Scout.
Melvin Maddocks
#46. Enjoy how sweet, how thoughtful, how kind I'm being on your birthday. Because tomorrow it's back to the same old crap.
Melvin Helitzer
#47. A politician would do well to remember that he has to live with his conscience longer than he does with his constituents.
Melvin Laird
#48. We are at war... The secret kind. The best kind. A war of shadows and mysteries... This is a fight for information, and for the truth.
Andrew Melvin
#49. No nation went into oblivion or was destroyed because it had bad laws, or because its statesmen were not intelligent, but because of INTERNAL CORRUPTION, and because they could not maintain the POWER OF SELF-CONTROL.
Melvin J. Ballard
#51. A lawyers performance in the courtroom is responsible for about 25 percent of the outcome; the remaining 75 percent depends on the facts.
Melvin Belli
#53. Hollywood desires money but they could not stand the political content.
Melvin Van Peebles
#56. Normally, if I'm being acknowledged it is for something in front of the camera. This puts the spotlight on the fact that there are opportunities other than just being an actor.
Melvin Van Peebles
#58. But there was no denying Purvis's ineptitude in the Dillinger hunt. Suspects were found then lost. His informants were hopeless. He raided the wrong apartments. He built no bridges to the Chicago police while annoying other departments. He'd had his car stolen from in front of his house.
Bryan Burrough
#59. For the most part, China is a system maintainer, not a system reformer or system transformer.
Melvin Gurtov
#60. Try it. You don't have to do it ever again if you don't want to. But try it once. Try everything once.
Melvin Burgess
#62. In this world it is becoming more and more unpopular to be a Christian. Soon it may become dangerous.
Melvin Laird
#63. For each of us who appear to have had a successful experiment there are many to whom their own experiments seem barren and negative.
Melvin Calvin
#64. Journalists do not like to report on uncertainties. They would almost rather be wrong than ambiguous.
Melvin Maddocks
#66. Out of abysses of Illiteracy, Through labyrinths of Lies, Across wastelands of Disease ... We advance Out of dead-ends of Poverty, Through wilderness of Superstition, Across barricades of Jim Crowism ... We advance.
Melvin B. Tolson
#67. Music is for theater like theater is for scripts. It's total: it's cyclical.
Melvin Van Peebles
#68. I'm not an ambulance chaser. I'm usually there before the ambulance.
Melvin Belli
#71. There is never a deed so foul that something couldn't be said for the guy; that's why there are lawyers.
Melvin Belli
#72. To choose art means to turn one's back on the world, or at least on certain of its distractions.
Melvin Maddocks
#73. Before I expected failure, and was astonished at deliverance; now I expect deliverance, and am astonished at failure."4 Though
Melvin E. Dieter
#74. I read all the time so it's difficult to say who my all-time favourites are. One is George Orwell, because he makes political writing so simple a child could understand it.
Melvin Burgess
#75. The question is
Who will get to heaven first; the man who talks or the man who acts?
Melvin B. Tolson
#76. Tar had a reason, plenty of reasons. The latest were painted on his face, too.
Melvin Burgess
#78. I'm not a cinematic cinematic person. I go to the movies like I did back when I was a kid. I go to the movies and I sit down. If the music works, hmm. If it doesn't work, hmm. The whole concept of the thing, not as one piece here or there. For me, music is a large part.
Melvin Van Peebles
#79. That's her secret, I suppose. Everything that happens to her she's proud of. She makes it special by it happening to her.
Melvin Burgess
#80. She didn't have to be offered anything; it was already hers. She was more herself than anyone else ever was and as soon as I clapped eyes on her I knew I wanted to be myself just as much as she was herself.
Melvin Burgess
#81. If Graffiti is art and art is a crime then how come piccaso never done time?
Melvin Glover
#82. The magic girl licked the wet off her arms and looked over to me as if to say, See? You don't have to behave like them, you don't have to behave like anyone.
Melvin Burgess
#83. Can we do too much for the Lord? Certainly we all love Him. Therefore, I implore us, keep His commandments and become more like Him. Come unto Christ, eat the bread of life, drink the living water, and feast on His limitless love. He is our Savior, our Master, of whom I bear my humble witness.
F. Melvin Hammond
#84. If I may take the liberty to speak for science at least, today his name and his prizes are without a peer in the world. He not only elevates science but he influences it as well.
Melvin Calvin
#85. It is one test of a fully developed writer that he reminds us of no one but himself.
Melvin Maddocks
#86. I had headaches for over 30 years until I tried chiropractic. They have completely disappeared.
Melvin Belli
#87. It is almost intrinsically impossible for ideas about how we are fooling ourselves to gain an adequate hearing. We are good enough at it to keep them nicely at bay.
Melvin Konner
#88. Society can transport money from rich to poor only in a leaky bucket
Arthur Melvin Okun
#89. The easiest way to destroy a man's faith is to destroy his morality.
Melvin J. Ballard
#90. We will never reach the world for Christ in our generation if we simply follow in the groove worn for us by our predecessors.
Melvin L. Hodges
#91. A famous actor, Edmund Kean, on his deathbed, was reported to have said, "Dying is easy. Comedy is hard."
Melvin Helitzer
#93. I was a trader for a company. That's different from the brokers who we sort of disdain as sort of just errand boys.
Melvin Van Peebles
#94. She wrote, 'Dandelion, I love you.' And I thought that was magic. It's not in you, it's between you. It's bigger and stronger than you are
Melvin Burgess
#96. High tax rates are followed by attempts of ingenious men to beat them as surely as surely as snow is followed by little boys on sleds.
Arthur Melvin Okun
#97. A hearing heart loves to whom it listens.
Doug Melvin
#98. Personally, I do movies the way I cook. I put in what I like, in case nobody else likes it and I have to eat it for the rest of the week.
Melvin Van Peebles
#99. Music or sound in a film is a character as important as another character.
Melvin Van Peebles
#100. Once we thought, journalists and readers alike, that if we put together enough 'facts' and gave them a fast stir, we would come up with something that, at least by the standards of short-order cooks, could be called the truth.
Melvin Maddocks
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