"Evelyn: Look, I... I may not be an explorer, or an adventurer, or a treasure-seeker, or a gunfighter, Mr. O'Connell, but I am proud of what I am. Rick: And what is that? Evelyn: I... am a librarian. The Mummy (1999)"

-- Max Allan Collins

#Treasure Quotes #May Quotes #Proud Quotes

“The airline business is it is mostly run by a bunch of spineless nincompoops who actually don't want to stand up to the environmentalists and call them the lying wankers that they are.”
“Anyone interested in design must be interested in other fields of expression - theater, ballet, photography, literature, music.”
“My boredom with everything has numbed me.”
“It is worthy to note, that the early popularity of Washington was not the result of brilliant achievement nor signal success; on the contrary, it rose among trials and reverses, and may almost be said to have been the fruit of defeat.”
“I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.”
“I feel like Hollywood would rather end the emerging, bottom-up creative culture than let it happen.”
“Few are aware that they want any thing, except pounds schillings and pence.”
“I don't want awards. I am not saying this like it's a case of sour grapes. It isn't. I have been to a couple of award functions, and I soon realised that it doesn't give me the kick that it does to others.”

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