A review of tough-guy Robert Mitchum's performance in Winds of War.
Nowadays Mitchum doesn't so much act as point his suit at people.
Nowadays Mitchum doesn't so much act as point his suit at people.
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Was she old? When they lit all the candles on her birthday cake, six people fainted from the heat.
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
Director Billy Wilder's cabled response to his wife's complaint from Paris that her accommodation did not have a bidet and would he send her one.
Unable to obtain bidet suggest handstand in shower.
Unable to obtain bidet suggest handstand in shower.
Winston Churchill:
An empty taxi arrived at 10 Downing Street and when the door was opened Attlee got out.
An empty taxi arrived at 10 Downing Street and when the door was opened Attlee got out.
Behindthegoal
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He also said: Attlee is a modest man with much to be modest about.
He did.
Men are never so serious, thoughtful and intent, as when they are at stool.
Yankee_Jack
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martin must have been seriously constipated
Of course clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence in society.
I know I am God because when I pray to Him I find I'm talking to myself.
Yankee_Jack
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That's two of us
When asked why he had been born in such an unfashionable place as Lowell, Massachusetts, American painter James McNeill Whistler replied:
The explanation is quite simple. I wished to be near my mother.
The explanation is quite simple. I wished to be near my mother.
Noel Coward on Peter O'Toole in the film Lawrence of Arabia.
If he had been any prettier, it would have been Florence of Arabia.
If he had been any prettier, it would have been Florence of Arabia.
Parents are the bones on which children sharpen their teeth.
WC Fields:
There's not a man in America who at one time or another hasn't had a secret desire to boot a child in the ass.
There's not a man in America who at one time or another hasn't had a secret desire to boot a child in the ass.
Whom the Gods wish to destroy they first call promising.
Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.
President Nixon's motto was if two wrongs don't make a right, try three.
Author Eldith Nesbit to George Bernard Shaw after an empty flirtation in 1887:
You had no right to write the preface if you were not going to write the book.
You had no right to write the preface if you were not going to write the book.