Blake Edwards famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Nothing matters but the facts. Without them, the science of criminal investigation is nothing more than a guessing game.
-- Blake Edwards

#Games #Criminals #Guessing
I think that there are few people in one's life that you never really feel that they're gone. I have to remind myself that she isn't around.
-- Blake Edwards

#Thinking #People #Gone
Shame is an unhappy emotion invented by pietists in order to exploit the human race.
-- Blake Edwards

#Race #Order #Unhappy
There's so few people in this town with a conscience.
-- Blake Edwards

#People #Towns #Conscience
Being thrown out of this place is significantly better than being thrown out of a leper colony.
-- Blake Edwards

#Colony #Thrown
Don't just stand there, idiot. Call a doctor, and then help me find a nose.
-- Blake Edwards

#Doctors #Noses #Helping
If you still want to kill him, do me a favor and take him outside. Those are new sheets.
-- Blake Edwards

#Favors #Want #Sheets
Look, there's nothing wrong with people being happy, but there's more to life than turning on and screwing to Ravel's Bolero.
-- Blake Edwards

#Life #Happiness #Sex
I'm not a dishwasher anymore. But I'm still from Sangamon Street.
-- Blake Edwards

#Dishwashers #Backgrounds #Streets

Scrabble - The game is available in Braille. Thatâ€™s a nice fact. This makes me feel better about humanity for some reason. I canâ€™t really explain why.
The rule of the game was never assume that anybody, however honorable, would be able to stand up under torture. If Mr. X, who knew where I was, was caught for some reason, I should move.
The World Series is played in my doubtless too-nostalgic imagination in some kind of autumn afternoon light, and seeing it exclusively in the bitter chill of midnight breaks the spell of even the best of games.
I am very interested in loyalty, even if the person to whom one is loyal is flawed, criminal, or otherwise in the wrong.
Tattooed men who are not behind bars are either latent criminals or degenerate aristocrats. If someone who is tattooed dies in freedom, then he does so a few years before he would have committed murder.
The idea that the State originated to serve any kind of social purpose is completely unhistorical. It originated in conquest and confiscation-th at is to say, in crime. It originated for the purpose of maintaining the division of society into an owning and exploiting class and a property-less dependent class - that is, for a criminal purpose.
Taking the state wherever found, striking into its history at any point, one sees no way to differentiate the activities of its founders, administrators, and beneficiaries from those of a professional criminal class.
Like I've said before, so many times before, I'm not a good person, I'm not a hero. I'm a criminal, a liar, a cheat, a killer. It was them or me and I wanted to live.
I have to say I'm all for public flogging. One type of criminal that a public humiliation might work particularly well with are the juvenile delinquents, a lot of whom consider it a badge of honor to be sent to juvenile detention. And it might not be such a cool thing in the 'hood to be flogged publicly.
The best people are always the worst. They drive everyone mad by being so good at second-guessing everything bad.

Blake Edwards famous quotes

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