Pressburger Quotes

#1. I love visual stylists like Bob Fosse and Vincente Minnelli and Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger with The Red Shoes and The Tales of Hoffman.

Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

#2. Emeric [Pressburger] was completely cosmopolitan. That's what makes their [with Michael Powell] films so special. Neither of them thought twice about making a film about a friendship between an Englishman and a German during the Blitz. They were genius.

Thelma Schoonmaker

#3. Human beings in stressful relationships will frequently behave in ways that contradict or even reverse their own most certain expectations.

Donald Antrim

#4. I thought on that, but there just ain't no way around the fact that some folks need killing.

C. Hoyt Caldwell

#5. So a truthful assessment of how America is doing in the war on terror as a result of President Bush's war on Iraq is that we have been set back by decades.

John Olver

#6. I have spent most of the day putting in a comma and the rest of the day taking it out.

Oscar Wilde

#7. I wanted to do a war movie, a western and an alien movie. In reality, there are a lot of ugly things happening in the world.

Aaron Eckhart

#8. Who cares what others think when you know that what you are doing is the right thing to do.

Robin S. Sharma

#9. We are here because we are determined to offer the people of the Western Cape choices which are long overdue.

Mangosuthu Buthelezi

#10. I wasn't eating. I wasn't sleeping. All I was doing was cocaine. I stayed awake for about two weeks, locked in my bedroom. I went down from a 142 pounds to 110 pounds.

Andy Gibb

#11. If you can't force or are unwilling to force your people to follow you, with or without threats, you are not a leader.

Lee Kuan Yew

#12. I've found that the most engaging and satisfying author events I've done are with other people, where the conversation is spontaneous. I think that is by far the better way to introduce and promote a book.

Gayle Forman

#13. A guy wanted the vet to cut his dog's tail off. The vet asked why. Well, my mother in law is visiting next month and I want to eliminate any possible indication that she is welcome.

Karel Capek

#14. I like Chanel and Yves Saint Laurent. I have some great Balenciaga jackets and I'm shoe crazy.

Melanie Laurent

#15. I'm scared as hell to fall for you ... But I'm more terrified to let you go.

Tracy March

#16. But I knew that, both in fairyland and the real world, too, wishes were a slipperier things.

Karen Joy Fowler