"The Press blew, the public stared, hands flew out like a million little fishes after bread."

-- Enid Bagnold

#Hands Quotes #Littles Quotes #Bread Quotes

“I don't care if you print something nasty about me. If it's true, fine. I don't care. But just make sure it's the truth.”
“Be wary of the arrogant intellectual who comments from the stands without having played on the field.”
“...to kill animals for the purpose of feeding on their flesh is one of the most deplorable and shameful infirmities of the human state”
“I don't care who does the electing, as long as I get to do the nominating.”
“A sudden gust: How big the world seems in a wind.”
“Experimental music scores are enigmatic, opaque, demanding, irritating, humorous, childlike; the best, like Cardew's Treatise, are also inspiring, giving rise, on occasion, to a music of vitality, intelligence and elegance.”
“Bonkers is kind of a combination of Jerry Lewis and Harpo Marx, which is very strange because Harpo never spoke!”
“I don't know what's good, or bad, or true. I let God worry about truth. I just want to know the momentary fact of things. Life isn't good, or bad, or true. It's merely factual. It's sensual. It's alive!”

Source : Paddy Chayefsky (1995). “The Collected Works of Paddy Chayefsky: The Screenplays”, Applause Theatre & Cinema Books

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