Walking recently - to get some isolation - through crematorium gardens i saw a plaque on a lady's grave who had passed after long illness. It read... "...No matter how you feel... get up, wash up, dress up, get out and never give up"
"It's almost impossible to write a song called 'Satan Never Sleeps' and expect the public to buy it." Harry Warren, in "Harry Warren and the Hollywood Musical" (1975)
"At a learned table in Paris, where Dr. [Benjamin] Franklin happened to dine, it was asked by the abbe Raynal, 'What description of men most deserves pity?'
Some mentioned one character, and some another. When it came to Franklin's turn, he replied, 'A lonesome man in a rainy day, who does not know how to read.'"
"At a learned table in Paris, where Dr. [Benjamin] Franklin happened to dine, it was asked by the abbe Raynal, 'What description of men most deserves pity?'
Some mentioned one character, and some another. When it came to Franklin's turn, he replied, 'A lonesome man in a rainy day, who does not know how to read.'"
I forgot to include a reference:
Mason L. Weems, Life of Benjamin Franklin with Many Choice Anecdotes (1818)
A straight-talking Polish friend died recently of cancer. Before he passed, he sent back to well-wishers the inspirational “hope” cards he received during his protracted illness. Scrawled on the back of each card was the popular Polish saying:
"The desire for food is limited in... [all] by the narrow capacity of the human stomach; but the desire for conveniences and ornaments of buildings, dress, equipage and household furniture, seems to have no limit or certain boundary." (Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations)
[writing in the late 1970's] "The generation of actors and actresses who could interest us in a character simply by appearing on the screen - Bogart, Grant, Stewart, Tracy, Cooper, Gable, Wayne, Hepburn, Dietrich, Crawford, Davis, Bergman - are slipping away fast, to be succeeded, for the most part, by a generation of dope freaks, pretty boys and lazy ladies, some of whom are better actors than their predecessors but precious few of whom can make us like them."
[writing about A STAR IS BORN (1977)] "Kris Kristofferson may be the first person in history to have out-slept Robert Mitchum in a screen performance."
"...in L.A. people hate success and failure with equivalent intensity. I don't know that it's so curious; not much else of importance is happening."
