Famous Quotes

"The cardinal sin in sports, what could really wreck it, is not cheating to win, which has gone on forever, but cheating to lose. That threatens a fundamental aspect of sports' appeal, which is their spontaneity. If games are fixed, they're no different from movies they're scripted."

Michael Mandelbaum on Movies

More quotes about Movies

• "Film spectators are quiet vampires."

  Jim Morrison on Movies

• "Am I a romantic? I've seen 'Wuthering Heights' ten times. I'm a romantic."

  Johnny Depp on Movies

• "You know what your problem is, it's that you haven't seen enough movies - all of life's riddles are answered in the movies."

  Steve Martin on Movies

• "This film cost $31 million. With that kind of money I could have invaded some country."

  Clint Eastwood on Movies

• "Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood."

  Walt Disney on Movies

More quotes by Michael Mandelbaum

• "If architecture is, as is sometimes said, music set in concrete, then football and basketball may be said to be creativity embodied in team sports."

• "The great thing about baseball is the causality is easy to determine and it always falls on the shoulders of one person. So there is absolute responsibility. That's why baseball is psychologically the cruelest sport and why it really requires psychological resources to play baseball - because you have to learn to live with failure."

• "In my experience, it's not just that serious books get a hearing on comedy shows. But serious books get a serious hearing, as well as a funny one, on comedy shows."

• "Words matter, especially words defining complicated political arrangements, because they shape perceptions of the events of the past, attitudes toward policies being carried out in the present, and expectations about desirable directions for the future."

• "After all, the past is our only real guide to the future, and historical analogies are instruments for distilling and organizing the past and converting it to a map by which we can navigate."