Menkens Mad Quotes

#1. I'd be the last colonel in the world to order you to go to that U.S.O. show and have a good time, but I want every one of you who isn't sick enough to be in a hospital to go to that U.S.O. show right now and have a good time, and that's an order!

Joseph Heller

#2. My dad was a different bloke to me and not very nice to my mum, although I never judge him. If you did, you'd become one of those people who is all-consumed by a fault in their past. And I haven't got the time for it.

Martin Clunes

#3. You make yourself strong because it's expected of you. You become confident because someone beside you is unsure. You turn into the person others need you to be.

Jodi Picoult

#4. Melinda was mine 'til the time that I found her holding Jim, loving him.

Neil Diamond

#5. Of the 60 movies I wrote, more than half were written in two weeks or less.

Ben Hecht

#6. The better question was, what was holding us prisoners?

Skye Warren

#7. I always see things that I can improve. But frankly with Stripes, I'm surprised at how effective it is, even today, and how vibrant that movie is and how juicy the performances all are.

Ivan Reitman

#8. You have to leave room in life to dream.

Buffy Sainte-Marie

#9. The truly original artist invents his own signs.

Henri Matisse

#10. The world is but a perennial movement. All things in it are in constant motion-the earth, the rocks of the Caucasus, the pyramids of Egypt-both with the common motion and with their own.

Michel De Montaigne

#11. Knowing how to win is the first step. We must also know how to make use of our victories.

Polybius

#12. People wanted to move to America because of Michael Jackson. Industry changed, the music industry changed, because of Michael Jackson. That's a gift to us, and, you know, I am concerned that the Good Lord may not send another one because we did not take good care of him.

Wesley Snipes