Famous quotes containing the words million dollar, million, dollar and/or highway:
“Thatcher: Now tell me honestly, my boy. Dont you think its rather unwise to continue this philanthropic enterprise, this Inquirer thats costing you a million dollars a year?
Charles Foster Kane: Youre right, Mr. Thatcher. I did lose a million dollars last year. I expect to lose a million dollars next year. You know, Mr. Thatcher, at the rate of a million dollars a year, Ill have to close this place in sixty years.”
—Orson Welles (19151985)
“Mere human beings cant afford to be fanatical about anything.... Not even about justice or loyalty. The fanatic for justice ends by murdering a million helpless people to clear a space for his law-courts. If we are to survive on this planet, there must be compromises.”
—Storm Jameson (18911986)
“Johnny Clay: You like money. You got a great big dollar sign there where most women have a heart. So play it smart. Stay in character and youll have money. Plenty of it. Georgell have it and hell blow it on you. Probably buy himself a five-cent cigar.
Sherry Peatty: You dont know me very well, Johnny. I wouldnt think of letting George throw his money away on cigars.”
—Stanley Kubrick (b. 1928)
“The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practised, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good.... God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.”
—Pierre Charron (15411603)