General Talking Pictures

Famous quotes containing the words general, talking and/or pictures:

    We will win this war because we are willing to sacrifice 10,000,000 lives. How many lives is the White Man willing to sacrifice?
    Jerome Cady, U.S. screenwriter, and Lewis Milestone. General Mitsubi (Richard Loo)

    Kasper Gutman: You’re a closemouthed man?
    Sam Spade: Un, un. I like to talk.
    Gutman: Better and better. I distrust a closemouthed man. He generally picks the wrong time to talk and says the wrong things. Talking is something you can’t do judiciously unless you keep in practice.
    John Huston (1906–1987)

    Those who are esteemed umpires of taste, are often persons who have acquired some knowledge of admired pictures or sculptures, and have an inclination for whatever is elegant; but if you inquire whether they are beautiful souls, and whether their own acts are like fair pictures, you learn that they are selfish and sensual. Their cultivation is local, as if you should rub a log of dry wood in one spot to produce fire, all the rest remaining cold.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)