Screwball Quotes

#1. I can give you my personal opinion: love the music, hate the business. It's a screwball business, and there are a lot of players who will straight-up lie to you.

Justin Timberlake

#2. I just made a movie. There's a kind of a banter that some people might recognize as being screwball. There are no cell phones, no DVD playersit's set in a timeless Brooklyn. Hopefully, it's a good, old-fashioned movie.

Michael Showalter

#3. Got any pitches? I got five pitches-rise-ball, curveball, screwball, drop-ball and changeup.

Jennie Finch

#4. I think that most of the best movies made in America in the 20th century were crime dramas, screwball comedies and westerns.

Terry Teachout

#5. My brain is so anxiety-prone, like a pinball machine. If I don't get up in the morning and focus my thinking, my breathing, and my being for about 12 minutes, I'm just a screwball all day long.

Rainn Wilson

#6. You and I know that there is a correlation between the creative and the screwball. So we must suffer the screwball gladly.

Kingman Brewster Jr.

#7. I like old movies, screwball comedies, vintage clothes, and basically I'm an old-fashioned gal.

Zooey Deschanel

#8. She's more even -[daughter China] - I think it jumps generations. You get a screwball in one, and then the next one is straight, then you get a screwball. My grandmother was goofy, my mother was straight.

Grace Slick

#9. Who'd have thought your screwball brother could have gone so serial-killer fucktwat insane?

Larissa Ione

#10. When people move from one extreme set of views to embrace another equally batty picture of the world, they expect us to applaud their choice, as if the fact that they have rejected one form of nuttiness somehow validates the screwball views they hold now.

Simon Hoggart

#11. The screwball's an unnatural pitch. Nature never intended a man to turn his hand like that throwing rocks at a bear.

Carl Hubbell

#12. People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.

Charles Kettering

#13. I have five pitches. Fast ball, change, curve, slider, screwball. I don't know any hitters. Catcher, he tells me what to do. I can get any pitch I want over the plate.

Juan Marichal

#14. Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball.

James Patrick Murray

#15. The best thing about serial drama - especially about screwball comedy - is blocked love.

Alison Pill

#16. It was one of those ones they call screwball comedies, where people mislead and ill-treat each other in the most shocking and baffling way possible, then forgive and forget about it because they happen to like the look of each other. Only they call it falling in love.

Helen Oyeyemi

#17. We are each the star of our own situation comedy, and, with luck, the screwball friend in somebody else's.

Robert Breault

#18. If the affairs of the world were put in the hands of the screwball artists, it couldn't be in a worse state than it is now !

Man Ray

#19. In times of trouble, may the Lord keep you safe.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#20. There's wall of agony between dreams and reality.

Toba Beta

#21. Quoting Kipling, I never got over the wonder of a people who, having extirpated the aboriginals of their continent more completely than any modern race had ever done, honestly believed they were a godly little New England community, setting examples to mankind.

Sarah Vowell

#22. Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Kurt Russell

#23. Within the nature of God is a strength that is fashioned in His perfection. Strength flows from the fountain of God's integrity. Honest people are the strongest people.

James MacDonald

#24. Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.

Tacitus

#25. I shall write an ode!" threatened Philip direfully.
"Ah no, that is too much!" cried De Vangrisse with feeling.

Georgette Heyer

#26. Lies are so suburban...But murder is nice and clean.

Carole Morin

#27. If John Grisham, Harper Lee, and Larry the Cable Guy were penned up in a remote cabin for a weekend with nothing but good bourbon, fine wine, and a couple of cases of Pabst Blue Ribbon beer, something like Common Pleas (A Tale of Whoa!) might result...

J. Randolph Cresenzo

#28. It was guarded by a few demons, but most of Set's forces were running towards our boat, screaming and throwing rocks (which tended to fall back down and hit them, but no one says demons are too bright)

Rick Riordan

#29. About an attractive woman at the bar, my character, Austin Carr, says, "She might be too drunk. I mean, even stockbrokers have some pride.

Jack Getze

#30. Freedom that is not fought for, that is not gained by personal sacrifice is freedom that will never last, because in the heart of the one set free, it will have little value. A treasure that costs nothing is a treasure that is easily neglected and lost.

Bryan Davis