Famous quotes containing the words carl, career and/or start:
“Oh no, it wasn’t the aviators, it was beauty that killed the beast.”
—James Creelman, screenwriter, Ruth Rose, screenwriter, Merian Cooper, and Ernest Schoedsack. Carl Denham (Robert Armstrong)
“Whether lawyer, politician or executive, the American who knows what’s good for his career seeks an institutional rather than an individual identity. He becomes the man from NBC or IBM. The institutional imprint furnishes him with pension, meaning, proofs of existence. A man without a company name is a man without a country.”
—Lewis H. Lapham (b. 1935)
“Gordon: Sure, sure, I got all your copy. Why didn’t you tell me you were going to write it in Greek? I’d start a new department.
Peter: That was free verse, you gashouse palooka!”
—Robert Riskin (1897–1955)