Quotations, Fav Movie Lines, and so on and so forth etc

[Grey Wolf]

I had a bike the first time I moved to L.A. I had a Honda and I got around on that. But I'd never ridden Harleys.

Princess Diana was a nice dancer because she had confidence. In fact, when we danced together she started to lead, and I looked her in eye and went, 'No, you have to let me lead.' So I grabbed her around the waist and we were off to the races.

Sports, entertainment and aviation are three of the most exciting professions in the world; you are dealing with the same magnitude.

I don't believe in regrets; I believe your future is in your tomorrows.

Even if the script's well written there's something about the life of an improvisation that resonates better than a written word, sometimes.

Dancing's part of my soul. I enjoy it, it makes people happy, and it makes me happy.

Christopher Walken was probably the most experienced dancing partner I've had in movies, because he has the same background as I do. He's from theatre, Broadway and off-Broadway, and we both shared that.

I've always slightly regretted not taking up Chicago.

I think what you have to do is have a box office success in every genre and then you're set for life. And fortunately, I happened to do that, so I get a myriad of offers of various sorts.

I have to believe there's some other life force out there. I don't know in what form. But we can't have all these galaxies and universes without something going on.

I've never had that concern of thinking of myself as stupid.

If you're going to play a woman, you might as well play a woman that you liked, and someone sexy.

I'm definitely working class, and I still believe in those values. I know that losing everything would not be an unfamiliar feeling. Meaning, if you don't have it anymore, you didn't have it to begin with.

Hollywood is controlled by homosexual Jewish men who expect favors in return for sexual activity.

[Grey Wolf]

We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Our republican system was meant for a homogeneous people. As long as blacks continue to live with the whites they constitute a threat to the national life. Family life may also collapse and the increase of mixed breed bastards may some day challenge the supremacy of the white man.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

You must remember that some things legally right are not morally right.

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.

Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.

Discipline is choosing between what you want now, and what you want most.

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.

He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.

When arguing with a fool, make sure the opponent isn't doing the exact same thing.

The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.

Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is wrong.

The strongest bond of human sympathy outside the family relation should be one uniting working people of all nations and tongues and kindreds.

The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend

Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.

The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.

At the beginning of the war, and for some time, the use of colored troops was not contemplated; and how the change of purpose was wrought, I will not now take time to explain. Upon a clear conviction of duty I resolved to turn that element of strength to account; and I am responsible for it to the American people, to the christian world, to history, and on my final account to God.

Familiarize yourselves with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them. Accustomed to trample on the rights of others, you have lost the genius of your own independence and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who rises among you.

Two of my favorite things are sitting on my front porch smoking a pipe of sweet hemp, and playing my Hohner harmonica.

[Grey Wolf]

The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

Don't go to the doctor with every distemper, nor to the lawyer with every quarrel, nor to the pot for every thirst.

Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.

Never trust a government that doesn't trust its own citizens with guns.

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.

Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature.

If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.

It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.

Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.

[Mal Hombre]

Publish and be damned.

All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavour to find out what you don't know by what you do; that's what I called "guessing what was at the other side of the hill.

If you believe that you will believe anything.

We always have been, we are, and I hope that we always shall be, detested in France.

The French system of conscription brings together a fair sample of all classes; ours is composed of the scum of the earth — the mere scum of the earth. It is only wonderful that we should be able to make so much out of them afterwards.

I don't know what effect these men will have on the enemy, but by God, they terrify me.

[tsunamiSD]

[scoundrel]

I was told that the way to tell a hostile Vietnamese from a friendly Vietnamese was to shout ‘To hell with Ho Chi Minh!’ If he shoots, he’s unfriendly. So I saw this dude and yelled ‘To hell with Ho Chi Minh!’ and he yelled back, ‘To hell with President Johnson!’ We were shaking hands when a truck hit us...

Unknown American GI explaining how he got the Purple Heart in Vietnam.

[haroldeye]

A few more from Wellington.

"Being born in a stable does not make you a horse." Apparently said when someone claimed he was Irish because he was born in Dublin.

"There is only one sight worse than a battle lost, and that is a battle won." [after Waterloo]

"All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavour to find out what you don't know from what you do."

"My Lord, if I attempted to answer the mass of futile correspondence which surrounds me, I should be debarred from the serious business of campaigning. So long as I retain an independent position, I shall see no officer under my command is debarred by attending to the futile drivelling of mere quill-driving from attending to his first duty, which is and always has been to train the private men under his command that they may without question beat any force opposed to them in the field."
(To the Secretary of State for War during the Peninsular Campaign)
MESSAGE FROM THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON TO THE BRITISH FOREIGN OFFICE IN LONDON -- written from Central Spain, August 1812

Gentlemen,
Whilst marching from Portugal to a position which commands the approach to Madrid and the French forces, my officers have been diligently complying with your requests which have been sent by H.M. ship from London to Lisbon and thence by dispatch to our headquarters.
We have enumerated our saddles, bridles, tents and tent poles, and all manner of sundry items for which His Majesty's Government holds me accountable. I have dispatched reports on the character, wit, and spleen of every officer. Each item and every farthing has been accounted for, with two regrettable exceptions for which I beg your indulgence.
Unfortunately the sum of one shilling and ninepence remains unaccounted for in one infantry battalion's petty cash and there has been a hideous confusion as to the number of jars of raspberry jam issued to one cavalry regiment during a sandstorm in western Spain. This reprehensible carelessness may be related to the pressure of circumstance, since we are at war with France, a fact which may come as a bit of a surprise to you gentlemen in Whitehall.
This brings me to my present purpose, which is to request elucidation of my instructions from His Majesty's Government so that I may better understand why I am dragging an army over these barren plains. I construe that perforce it must be one of two alternative duties, as given below. I shall pursue either one with the best of my ability, but I cannot do both:
1. To train an army of uniformed British clerks in Spain for the benefit of the accountants and copy-boys in London or perchance,
2. To see to it that the forces of Napoleon are driven out of Spain.
Your most obedient servant Wellington

"So long as I retain an independent position, I shall see no officer under my command is debarred by attending to the futile drivelling of mere quill-driving from attending to his first duty, which is and always has been to train the private men under his command that they may without question beat any force opposed to them in the field."

[Grey Wolf]

There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.

There are far more statues of soldiers out there than there are of civilians.

If I were an Indian...I would greatly prefer to cast my lot among those of my people who adhere to the free open plains, rather than submit to the confined limits of a reservation.

I would be willing, yes glad, to see a battle every day during my life.

My purpose is to make my narrative as truthful as possible.

Previous to this time I had never even a balloon except from a distance. Being interested in their construction, I was about to institute a thorough examination of all its parts, when the aeronaut announced that all was ready. He inquired whether I desired to go up alone, or he should accompany me. My desire, if frankly expressed, would have been not to go up at all; but if I was to go, company was certainly desirable. With an attempt at indifference, I intimated that he might go along.

The Seventh can handle anything it meets.

You ask me if I will not be glad when the last battle is fought, so far as the country is concerned I, of course, must wish for peace, and will be glad when the war is ended, but if I answer for myself alone, I must say that I shall regret to see the war end.

I appeal to you as a soldier to spare me the humiliation of seeing my regiment march to meet the enemy and I not share its dangers.

Hurrah Boys! Let's get these last few reds then head on back to camp. Hurrah!

[Grey Wolf]

Life is full of miracles, but they're not always the ones we pray for.

I've worked with a lot of great glamorous girls in movies and the theatre. And I'll admit, I've often thought it would be wonderful to be a femme fatale. But then I'd always come back to thinking that if they only had what I've had - a family, real love, an anchor - they would have been so much happier during all the hours when the marquees and the floodlights are dark.

If you can't be an athlete, be an athletic supporter!

Wife-Mother-Actress-Author The world will remember.

[Grey Wolf]

Once a song and dance man, always a song and dance man. Those few words tell as much about me professionally as there is to tell.

My father was totally Irish, and so I went to Ireland once. I found it to be very much like New York, for it was a beautiful country, and both the women and men were good-looking.

Perhaps people, and kids especially, are spoiled today, because all the kids today have cars, it seems. When I was young you were lucky to have a bike.

Learn your lines… plant your feet… look the other actor in the eye… say the words… mean them.

Outside of my family, the prime concern of my life has been nature and its order, and how we have been savagely altering that order.

Absorption in things other than self is the secret of a happy life.

Find your mark, look the other fellow in the eye, and tell the truth.

You don't psych yourself up for these things, you do them... I'm acting for the audience, not for myself, and I do it as directly as I can.

You know, the period of World War I and the Roaring Twenties were really just about the same as today. You worked, and you made a living if you could, and you tired to make the best of things. For an actor or a dancer, it was no different then than today. It was a struggle.

I never had the slightest difficulty with a fellow actor. Not until One, Two, Three. In that picture, Horst Buchholz tried all sorts of scene-stealing didoes. I came close to knocking him on his ass.

There's not much to say about acting but this. Never settle back on your heels. Never relax. If you relax, the audience relaxes. And always mean everything you say.

I`m sick of carrying guns and beating up women

My childhood was surrounded by trouble, illness, and my dad's alcoholism, but as I said, we just didn't have the time to be impressed by all those misfortunes. I have an idea that the Irish possess a built-in don't-give-a-damn that helps them through all the stress.

Though I soon became typecast in Hollywood as a gangster and hoodlum, I was originally a dancer, an Irish hoofer, trained in vaudeville tap dance. I always leapt at the opportunity to dance in films later on.

I got a part as a chorus girl in a show called Every Sailor and I had fun doing it. Mother didn't really approve of it, through.

I never said, 'MMMmmm, you dirty rat!