The Americans’ great wealth (and their great love for it) makes it precisely the appropriate metaphor. Supply and Demand as a principle has permeated their minds. As a practice, it stains all the way down to their souls.
was quick, lively, ingenious and profound, with great activity of mind and great facility of manipulation. I should place him at the head of all the living chemists in France.
A great leader fights with great adversity, suffers greatly, but courageously, and never forget to help others is his ultimate duty.
I want them to come away with discovering the music inside them. And not thinking about themselves as jazz musicians, but thinking about themselves as good human beings, striving to be a great person and maybe they'll become a great musician.
Santa: Do you know why I only eat roots? Jep Gambardella: No, why? Santa: Because roots are important.
Field Marshal Herring: We've just discovered the most wonderful, the most marvelous poisinous gas. It will kill everybody.
Melvin B. Tolson: I am here to help you to find, take back, and keep your righteous mind.
Melvin B. Tolson: We'll be one of the first Negro colleges to ever debate a white college. If we beat them, we beat the best.
Hilts: I haven't seen Berlin yet, from the ground or from the air, and I plan on doing both before the war is over.
Ashley-Pitt: [watching Hilts be brought back into camp] I didn't think he'd get caught so soon. Bartlett: He wasn't caught.
Danny: Oh, Hendley. I need a pick. Big, heavy one. Hendley: Only one? Danny: Two would be better.
Bartlett: What about the goon towers? Hilts: That's a chance you're gonna have to take. But they're gonna be watching the compound, not the woods.
Stratwitch: I will not take action against you, now. This is the first day here and there has been much stupidity and carelessness... on both sides!
Herr Kuhn: [to Bartlett] Squadron Leader Bartlett, if you escape again, and are captured, you will be SHOT! Herr Kuhn: [to Von Luger] Heil Hitler!
Carol Connelly: [Melvin enters the restaurant in his suit] You look so se-... um, you look great. You look great.
Helen: Have a great day, honey. Help customers, climb ladders... Bob: Bring bacon. Helen: All that jazz.
Diane Court: Nobody thinks it will work, do they? Lloyd Dobler: No. You just described every great success story.
Lester Burnham: [narrating] It's a great thing when you realize you still have the ability to surprise yourself.
It's hard loving those who don't much like themselves: "If you're so great, why would you think I'm so great.
Magic is the most interesting art because people not necessarily want to learn to paint after they see a great painting, but they want to learn magic after they see a great magic effect.
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.
