Rick Blaine Quotes

#1. Major Strasser: You give him (Rick Blaine) credit for too much cleverness. My impression was that he's just another blundering American. Captain Renault: We musn't underestimate American blundering. I was with them when they blundered into Berlin in 1918.

Humphrey Bogart

#2. Capt. Renault: What on Earth brought you to Casablanca? Rick Blaine: My health, I came to Casablanca for the waters. Capt. Renault: The waters? What waters? We're in the desert! Rick Blaine: I was misinformed.

Humphrey Bogart

#3. Just remember, strength and courage. If you stand on principle, you'll never lose.

Janet Reno

#4. If I had wanted to be a pawn in a game, I would have taken up chess...

Virginia Alison

#5. Thank God Roxane Coss had not fallen in love with one of the Russians. She doubted they could make it up the stairs without stopping for a cigarette and telling at least one loud story that no one could understand.

Ann Patchett

#6. He who commends the nature of the soul as the supreme good, and condemns the nature of the flesh as evil, at once both carnally desires the soul, and carnally flies the flesh, because he feels thus from human vanity, not from divine truth.

Saint Augustine

#7. I'm no good at being noble, but it doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world.

Rick Blaine

#8. My mother was a teacher, and when she wanted to show me art and literature and science, she'd take me to museums, parks and free exhibitions.

David Blaine

#9. And cleanliness is next to deadliness

Brandon Sanderson

#10. This change in the conception of reality is the most profound and the most fruitful that physics has experienced since the time of Newton.

{Referring to James Clerk Maxwell's contributions to physics}

Albert Einstein

#11. The fact is that pictures which are unlike reality ought not be approved, and even if they are technically fine, this is no reason why they should offhand be judged to be correct, if their subject is lacking in the principles of reality carried out with no violations.

Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

#12. That He is mighty - should cause us to rejoice who tremble at our weakness.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#13. Rick and Scotty, who had heard Australian slang before from Digger Sears, one-time mate of the Tarpon, broke into chuckles.

"I'd better translate," Scotty said, "'Lord stone the crows' is just an expression. Oscar Ashe is hard cash. Yakka is hard work. And dinkum oil is gospel truth.

John Blaine

#14. Changes in my personal life are nerve-racking for me.

Donny Deutsch

#15. Who's he seeing now then?"
"No idea. They're like funfair goldfish; no point giving them names, they never last that long.

David Nicholls

#16. 'The Crumbling of America' should be required viewing for local and national government, not to mention the local and national media who should be keeping their feet to the fire on guarding against disaster.

Rachel Sklar

#17. People in misery is what most important in art.

Zhang Yimou

#18. Phrases like 'the team spirit' are always employed to cut across individualism, love and personal loyalties.

Muriel Spark