Screwball's Quotes

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

Carl Hubbell

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

Zooey Deschanel

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

Carole Morin

#4. My wife knows that I thrive on independence, and whatever girls live with me must know that, too. They must realize I have a certain respect for my wife and love for my children, and my work comes pretty much ahead of all that.

Don Ho

#5. 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

#6. If there were no shadows, how could we see the sunlight?

V.C. Andrews

#7. 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

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

Larissa Ione

#9. 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

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

Charles Kettering

#11. 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.

#12. 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

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

Terry Teachout

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

Jennie Finch

#15. 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

#16. I'm not prejudiced in any way that I can think of. That's just not the guy I am.

Willie Nelson

#17. What else don't we know about you, Miss Riley?" Liz asked. "Do you put on a superhero costume and fight crime at night in the metropolis?"
"Yes, but only between three and five a.m."
"Oooh, aren't you the smart-ass." Liz cocked her head to the side and studied her.

Jaci Burton

#18. Yoga is the most boring exercise. It's for people who are too lazy to get on the elliptical. Bikram, where they heat up the room to mimic India's climate, is especially stupid. People in India are not skinny because they're doing yoga in 105-degree rooms; they're skinny because there's no food.

Noureen DeWulf

#19. I think somebody like Wes [Anderson] has a very good sense of style and is original. I think my sense of style got a little bit better after I was exposed to you guys at Valentino. Because I'm just in Hawaii and Malibu; it's just kind of T-shirts and surfing-type stuff.

Owen Wilson

#20. I turned a lot of people in white America - and not just white America, but middle-class America - into hip-hoppers, you know?

Vanilla Ice

#21. Liberty is the luxury of self-discipline, that those nations historically who have failed to discipline themselves have had discipline imposed by others.

Alistair Cooke

#22. Athens is like a sluggish horse, and I am the gadfly trying to sting it into life.

Jostein Gaarder

#23. 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

#24. Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.

Ogden Nash

#25. 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

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

Alison Pill

#27. Life without God is ultimately life without any point of reference for meaning other than what one gives it at the time.

Ravi Zacharias

#28. The world is my workshop. It is not my home.

Abbas Kiarostami

#29. 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

#30. 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

#31. 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

#32. Once you reach a good level in tennis it fills you with a lot of motivation. I hope I can do it for a long time.

Roger Federer

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

Robert Breault