Preston Sturges quote: "I did not think that a good movie was the equivalent of a good stage play, any more than I thought an automobile ride was as exhilarating as a drive behind a spirited horse, nor a trip by steam as soul-satisfying as a voyage by sail."

I am quite sure that a little man who braves ridicule to improve the lot of his fellow men, and is t...
PRESTON STURGES

By the very nature of his art, which depends on invention and innovation, a story teller must depart...
PRESTON STURGES

For a southern belle, my grandmother was remarkably modern. She threw my grandfather out, for one th...
PRESTON STURGES

I don't believe environment has the slightest bit to do with anything - I only believe in ancest...
PRESTON STURGES

I am, of course, directly descended from Brian Boru, the last king of Ireland, a fact certified by m...
PRESTON STURGES

It is probably a very good thing for a boy to learn to live with enmity, as opposed to an atmosphere...
PRESTON STURGES

In 'Remember the Night,' love reformed her and corrupted him, which gave us the finely balan...
PRESTON STURGES

The United States owes a great debt to its inventors. Far from being grateful to them, it places eve...
PRESTON STURGES

I thought for a month or so along the lines of what I call Monsieur Beaucaire in modern clothes. By ...
PRESTON STURGES

Our gymnasium was remarkable and had more stuff in it than one could dream up in a nightmare. Furthe...
PRESTON STURGES

wouldn't it be hilarious if he ran his pipes through (fill in the blank)?
PRESTON STURGES

I have always wondered why the movie industry was so firmly persuaded that the original author could...
PRESTON STURGES

Of the Sturges family, much more is known than is available about poor Irish immigrants and obscure ...
PRESTON STURGES

I did all my directing when I wrote the screenplay. It was probably harder for a regular director. H...
PRESTON STURGES

I suppose they're like the I.R.S., ... You move once and they never send you your refund check.
PRESTON STURGES

I go through life accumulating possessions... I've always done it... and then, every once in a w...
PRESTON STURGES

The hook is a word or an idea spoken by one character which gives the next character something to ho...
PRESTON STURGES

The more you stand in the limelight, the more scarred you will become and the more you will love the...
PRESTON STURGES

People love to step out on a deck and not see anyone or anything except a great view. Even if the on...
AMANDA STURGES

It must be beautiful and relaxing, but it also needs to be safe -- from man-made or natural disaster...
AMANDA STURGES

A property that is pet-friendly is usually on the ground floor, not on a busy street, and perhaps wi...
AMANDA STURGES

A nice option is to own a few closely connected condos where individual households can stay. Groups ...
AMANDA STURGES

When I started doing my work years ago, I had doubts as to whether the informed-consent question was...
JOCK STURGES

Different members of different cultures will think that some things are beautiful.
JOCK STURGES

I'm the last person who has any desire to instruct anybody in shame. That's no errand for me...
JOCK STURGES

Independently owned businesses drive Charlotte's economy. And for too long this so-called small-busi...
WES STURGES

Independently owned businesses drive Charlotte's economy. And for too long this so-called small busi...
WES STURGES

We are very pleased with the growth and the way we are being received in the business community. We ...
WES STURGES

There's no particular evidence that any of the lower mammals or any of the other animals have an...
JOCK STURGES

I will always admit immediately to what's obvious, which is that Homo sapiens is inherently erot...
JOCK STURGES

But the truth is that Homo sapiens is a sensual species. I think all species are, to one degree or a...
JOCK STURGES

But empirically I've come to understand that my photographs really don't do any harm.
JOCK STURGES

I'm guilty of extraordinary naivete, I suppose. But it's a naivete that I really don't w...
JOCK STURGES

The images I like best are parts of series that I've started, in some cases, with the pregnancie...
JOCK STURGES

Some of the people that I photographed as sticks became much more voluptuous, much rounder, in some ...
JOCK STURGES

I found myself serving a sentence of public denial from the very second the raid on my apartment hap...
JOCK STURGES

It's no small irony that the government inevitably and invariably ends up promoting precisely th...
JOCK STURGES

A virulent, aggressive minority has decided that Americans don't know themselves what it is they...
JOCK STURGES

If somebody's pointing a trembling finger at your pants and saying you shouldn't be doing th...
JOCK STURGES

You people with your quests annoy the pants off me.
MATTHEW STURGES

When political and business leaders tell the public - any public - 'We don't trust you to ma...
PRESTON MANNING

Experiments suggest that if one particle of Ebola enters a person's bloodstream, it can cause a ...
RICHARD PRESTON

I think that in order for anything to work on television, you have to have conflict. Nothing can be ...
CARRIE PRESTON

I'm hearing these words about renewal of the ecumenical movement, but I'm looking for a tangible fra...
ALISON PRESTON

Tracy was frustrated at the start of the season. She wasn't scoring and the links were which wasn't ...
ALISON PRESTON

Annie was frustrated in the preseason but she's steadily improved and has seven goals.
ALISON PRESTON

Everyone was upset when Mackenzie went down. When she came back, their level of play went back up. S...
ALISON PRESTON

Pequannock's only lost two games, both to Madison, so they're obviously a good team.
ALISON PRESTON

When we played Roxbury in the first round, we found out the final would be on our field. It's exciti...
ALISON PRESTON

We've got no superstars but they're getting the job done.
ALISON PRESTON

I've never met a person, I don't care what his condition, in whom I could not see possibilities. I d...
PRESTON BRADLEY

The world basically and fundamentally is constituted on the basis of harmony. Everything works in co...
PRESTON BRADLEY

Expect victory and you make victory.
PRESTON BRADLEY

We all have a Monster within; the difference is in degree, not in kind.
DOUGLAS PRESTON

Redwood rainforest has five to 10 times the biomass - that's the sheer weight of living material...
RICHARD PRESTON

The easiest gift to give my husband is anything to do with airlines and flying.
KELLY PRESTON

'True Blood' is shot on film. It's more like a movie, and they take more days to shoot i...
CARRIE PRESTON

Dragonflies kill their prey in the air and eat it on the wing. They feed on aerial plankton, which c...
RICHARD PRESTON

We're creating these massive urban areas in the Third World. It's like you take the entire p...
RICHARD PRESTON

Our friends have nothing to do with the business. Some of our closest friends in Florida are not sta...
KELLY PRESTON

jennie confirmed my suspicions that television advertising is directed mainly at people with the iq ...
DOUGLAS PRESTON

When we classify an issue as a 'shield issue' it is usually because we feel that someone els...
PRESTON MANNING

I'm a character actor and I get lost in these characters, so I think it's only recently that...
CARRIE PRESTON

I grew up in Hawaii and I think it was easier because we did not have cliques at high school.
KELLY PRESTON

Do not ghettoize society by putting people into legal categories of gender, race, ethnicity, languag...
PRESTON MANNING

For the Mackenzie fund, we look at it over more than 15 different screening criteria.
ANDREW PRESTON

There's been a big change in investors and investors' outlook on the world. In the '80s, it was very...
ANDREW PRESTON

We got Pat Bergmann the ball a lot more and he finished a lot more. It was a great team win. We pret...
ANDREW PRESTON

This makes us 3-0 going into league play which is what we wanted.
ANDREW PRESTON

This is huge, this is the biggest game of the season, ... it doesn't get any better than this.
ANDREW PRESTON

I found a seam and I just cut back because they were over-pursuing. I have to thank my offensive lin...
ANDREW PRESTON

I shot all my stuff on 'Arrested Development' in one day, and was brought into a really well...
CARRIE PRESTON

When the initial effort of political and business leaders to influence public opinion on an issue is...
PRESTON MANNING

There are more effective ways of tackling environmental problems including global warming, prolifera...
PRESTON MANNING

Redwood time moves at a more stately pace than human time. To us, when we look at a redwood tree, it...
RICHARD PRESTON

The dragonfly is an exceptionally beautiful insect and a fierce carnivore. It has four wings that be...
RICHARD PRESTON

I was actually lost in Beirut on the way home.
KELLY PRESTON

But if I had committed a breach of privilege, it was the privilege of the Senate, and not of this Ho...
PRESTON BROOKS

Scientific facts are often described in textbooks as if they just sort of exist, like nickels someon...
RICHARD PRESTON

The crown of a supertall redwood has a towering, cloudy, irregular form, and the crowns of the talle...
RICHARD PRESTON

The first time I met Ray, I was going to school around the corner from his house. One day, he was pl...
BILLY PRESTON

The Beatles did treat me as a member of the group. And that was a great honor, you know?
BILLY PRESTON

It was great fun to be able to work with so many different artists. And I'm paying a tribute to the ...
BILLY PRESTON

I'm playing with Bonnie Raitt. I don't have to sing it. I just have to play it. That's cool.
BILLY PRESTON

I would never do anything to hurt anybody, especially if they're helping me. I'm not that kind of pe...
BILLY PRESTON

I had been inspired by an organ player named Earl Grant, who played organ and piano together. My mom...
BILLY PRESTON

I do believe that God has his hands on me and that he has work for me to do.
BILLY PRESTON

There is a whole school of Canadian academics, media personalities, and politicians whose definition...
PRESTON MANNING

My hobbies are mountain biking, horseback riding and packing, canoeing and kayaking, hiking, camping...
DOUGLAS PRESTON

'The Good Wife' was definitely the biggest surprise and gift that I've had in a long tim...
CARRIE PRESTON

I've never met a person, I don't care what his condition, in whom I could not see possibilities. I d...
PRESTON BRADLEY

Global climate change has become entangled with the problem of invasive species. A warmer climate co...
RICHARD PRESTON

That's what they do. They'll make eight-point runs on you. That's why they're No. 1 in (the) section...
RAY PRESTON

I should have forfeited my own self-respect, and perhaps the good opinion of my countrymen, if I had...
PRESTON BROOKS

A lot of people probably don't realize how difficult it is to stick to that lawyer speak when yo...
CARRIE PRESTON

I tend to play every color in the Southern rainbow, and the challenge is to make each character diff...
CARRIE PRESTON

We women often gauge our own self-worth by the quality of our interactions with our lovers. And ofte...
CARRIE PRESTON

The earth's biosphere could be thought of as a sort of palace. The continents are rooms in the p...
RICHARD PRESTON

Where I think we're headed is a system of universal care, where everybody is covered ... with two tr...
PRESTON MANNING

Canada is the only country founded on the relentless pursuit of the rodent.
PRESTON MANNING

The Halton Peel Canadian Club was launched in September of 2001,
PRESTON MANNING

Hubris and science are incompatible.
DOUGLAS PRESTON

Here's what's terrifying about Ebola. Ebola is invisible. It's a monster without a face....
RICHARD PRESTON

I don't believe in a biological apocalypse, but I think there is stormy biological weather ahead...
RICHARD PRESTON

No one knows exactly when or where the redwood entered the history of life on earth, though it is an...
RICHARD PRESTON

In the course of writing 'First Light,' I climbed all over and through the Hale Telescope, w...
RICHARD PRESTON

Whatever insults my State insults me.
PRESTON BROOKS

My personal political convictions are rooted in the populist political traditions of western Canada.
PRESTON MANNING

I've but only peered over giant shoulders; but at least.
PRESTON ROUSE

We're a close group we like spending time together. This team is unique to any other I've been on...
BEKY PRESTON

A lot of teams get along. But this team just clicks.
BEKY PRESTON

She definitely was frustrated, but I think she had the same frustration that everyone else had. For ...
BEKY PRESTON

The earth is attempting to rid itself of an infection by human parasite.
RICHARD PRESTON

Redwoods have an enormous surface area that extends upward into space because they have a propensity...
RICHARD PRESTON

As life forms, viruses are just inherently interesting. It's the microworld - this universe of l...
RICHARD PRESTON

The alienist is not a joke - He finds you cracked, and leaves you broke
KEITH PRESTON

When you have Southside on your jersey, you expect to win. It's a game that we look at as a one or t...
PRESTON EARLY

When a parasite moves to a new habitat, it can find new hosts through a process called the trans-spe...
RICHARD PRESTON

The heroines in 'That's What She Said' are flawed, messy, damaged, hilarious and culpabl...
CARRIE PRESTON

If a healthy person were placed on the other side of a room from a person who was sick with AIDS, th...
RICHARD PRESTON

They had no right, as it seems to me, to prosecute me in these Halls; nor have you the right in law ...
PRESTON BROOKS

Life on the planet is being homogenized by the expanding human population and the frequent and rapid...
RICHARD PRESTON

'That's What She Said' is not Hollywood's standard picture of women: preternaturally...
CARRIE PRESTON

I have been around a lot of different personalities ? Walter Alston, Leo Durocher, Tommy Lasorda. I'...
PRESTON GOMEZ

I have been around a lot of different personalities - Walter Alston, Leo Durocher, Tommy Lasorda. I'...
PRESTON GOMEZ

I have found that liars in the end communicate more truth than do truth tellers.” “How’s that?...
DOUGLAS PRESTON

We've got to defend the run, defend the Wing-T and put them into long-yardage situations so they hav...
DOUG PRESTON

Everything about my husband is sexy, especially his lips.
KELLY PRESTON

Creating an entrance is the most important thing of a party. You want to get their (the guests) atte...
PRESTON BAILEY

I'm all in favor of looking deeply into as much as we possibly can. I'm not afraid of knowle...
RICHARD PRESTON

I started to think how awesome it would be to hold the Classic record and take over Rojas' record to...
PRESTON CLARK

The problem with Ebola is that it makes mistakes while it copies itself. The mistakes are actually g...
RICHARD PRESTON

He's got great composure. He's always cool and calm. He's been a great leader for this offense. That...
GRANT PRESTON

I got a chance to see [Brown] in the summer and he's a good player. This team has full confidence in...
GRANT PRESTON

He gave me a jolt (Monday) in practice. I didn't know where I was for a while. He looks awesome.
GRANT PRESTON

Up front, we did not get it done.
GRANT PRESTON

We're not looking at what we've lost. We're looking at our strong points. That's what we've been try...
GRANT PRESTON

We're excited to go out and see where we stand.
GRANT PRESTON

Oh yeah, I'm fine with it - left field, center field, it doesn't matter. That was part of what I agr...
PRESTON WILSON

In biology, nothing is clear, everything is too complicated, everything is a mess, and just when you...
RICHARD PRESTON

FURIOUS FAVOR I wonder if David would be allowed in our churches today. In most cases, when a church...
PRESTON SPRINKLE

When I first met you, you had your arm in a sling. Your front teeth were crooked. There was this gre...
F.K. PRESTON

the partition was rolled up for ventilation, and she was lying in her hammock reading one of the boo...
DOUGLAS PRESTON

It worked far better than we had expected,
PRESTON BURCH

Four years of hard work and dedication is finally paying off.
PRESTON LEMASTER

His big thing was to fish for sharks off the piers.
PRESTON FREEBURGER

After I boated that big one, I had to sit down for 10 minutes. I promised myself I wasn't going to s...
PRESTON CLARK

Summertime, in recent years, has become a testing ground for reality shows – 'Survivor,' (CBS) 'Fe...
PRESTON BECKMAN

[Democracy:] An institution in which the whole is equal to the scum of the parts.
KEITH PRESTON

After the review period, Congress can vote to disapprove of the deal, but [the bill] doesn't say whe...
PRESTON HARTMAN

We're not sitting down, sulking, feeling bad. We're not even focused on it. We have good enough play...
GRANT PRESTON

We're not sitting down sulking and feeling bad. We're rallying around what we've got, and we feel we...
GRANT PRESTON

Generally, there's a lot of cash around and, when the market starts performing, it does start feedin...
TIM PRESTON

The way to get better pornography is to give pornographers better sex.
JOHN PRESTON

I will love you until the end of time, but not a minute longer.
(From It's Time I Told You)
DAVE PRESTON

What is infinity? I haven’t a clue.
But maybe that’s the whole point I’ve been attempting...
F.K. PRESTON

Fox bought the rights to the book way back when, and there was this attempt by Fox to make a movie o...
RICHARD PRESTON

I was surfing the Internet, and I came across a school in Atlanta where you could learn how to climb...
RICHARD PRESTON

If a portion of a redwood is rotting, the redwood will send roots into its own form and draw nutrien...
RICHARD PRESTON

For many years I have advocated 'redesigning Parliament' in a variety of ways - elect the Se...
PRESTON MANNING

Let go of your perceived control, and let the unknown turn you on.
PRESTON SMILES

Remember the referendum on the Charlottetown constitutional accord? The more Canada's political ...
PRESTON MANNING

An Ebola particle is only around eighty nanometres wide and a thousand nanometres long. If it were t...
RICHARD PRESTON

When you get up into the crown of a redwood tree, you lose sight of the ground entirely. You also lo...
RICHARD PRESTON

The redwoods you can see in Muir Woods are nothing like the redwood titans that stand in the rainfor...
RICHARD PRESTON

The seeds of a redwood are released from cones that are about the size of olives. The heartwood of t...
RICHARD PRESTON

Whatever team they are going to bring they are playing together longer than some of the teams here. ...
PRESTON GOMEZ

My first job was washing dishes in the basement of a nursing home for $2.10 an hour, and I learned a...
DOUGLAS PRESTON

Life is an adventure! So live it up!
L.M. PRESTON

Believe it or not, yeah. They?re big and athletic and they?re very physical.
PRESTON EARLY

Life's a circle. There are no lines we can cross.
F.K. PRESTON

[In the 911 call Grayston made around 3:40 a.m. that day, he said:] He was going to blow my brains o...
BRUCE PRESTON

The deceased, while he and the accused were drinking together . . . began handling a shotgun,
BRUCE PRESTON

I am satisfied, upon reading the 911 tapes . . . the charge of manslaughter cannot be sustained,
BRUCE PRESTON

I have a wonderful marriage and two great kids.
KELLY PRESTON

We need to build off what we've been doing and clean up our mistakes on offense. I feel we've sort o...
DOUG PRESTON

We've got to play a lot better defense than we did in the first game. Obviously, we're facing a team...
DOUG PRESTON

They have a lot of quickness. They have some very good backs. They're really explosive, much the sam...
DOUG PRESTON

It was disappointing. For whatever reason, we didn't get it done. We didn't play with a lot of confi...
DOUG PRESTON

Overall, it was night and day from last week. As bad as we were last week, we were good this week. I...
DOUG PRESTON

We need to clean that up. You just can't do that against anyone.
DOUG PRESTON

Jeff VandeGrift has been in control and has gotten most of the reps. He played a lot better last wee...
DOUG PRESTON

'First Light' is nonfiction, a true story about astronomers who are looking for light coming...
RICHARD PRESTON

I had actually finished the manuscript of 'The Wild Trees' and turned it in to Random House ...
RICHARD PRESTON

I like being able to marry the actor and the technician inside of me. It's really fulfilling. It...
CARRIE PRESTON

I love being a scientologist, as it's helped me in every single aspect of my life.
KELLY PRESTON

A football player is often bigger than a basketball player - more massive, that is. The basketball p...
RICHARD PRESTON

I got my first big paycheck for 'My Best Friend's Wedding.' This was in the days when yo...
CARRIE PRESTON

Back in 2004, Kellie Overbey handed me her play 'Girl Talk' to read. I fell in love with her...
CARRIE PRESTON

When I hit the big fish, I started shaking.
PRESTON CLARK

It was a tough way to lose. We really felt we had a chance to stay close to them in the mile relay, ...
DARREN PRESTON

We've been working out for three weeks, and we've got some good numbers. But most of the kids are yo...
DARREN PRESTON

Scrapping hardware that is three-quarters complete is, I think, sinful,
PRESTON BURCH

He's a good player and he wouldn't be here if he wasn't.
GRANT PRESTON

We need to be more physical and we need to sustain our blocks longer. If I was a backup and was goin...
GRANT PRESTON

Dreams are memories.
Memories are dreams.
But my time with you hasn’t become a dream j...
F.K. PRESTON

I'm playing with Bonnie Raitt. I don't have to sing it. I just have to play it. That's c...
BILLY PRESTON

I would never do anything to hurt anybody, especially if they're helping me. I'm not that ki...
BILLY PRESTON

Isn't it true that if you stare into the eyes of a cobra, the fear has another side to it? The fear ...
RICHARD PRESTON

They take a much longer-term view of the returns from the assets they buy.
MARK PRESTON

I did not think that a good movie was the equivalent of a good stage play, any more than I thought an automobile ride was as exhilarating as a drive behind a spirited horse, nor a trip by steam as soul-satisfying as a voyage by sail.

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Preston Sturges

I did not think that a good movie was the equivalent of a good stage play, any more than I thought an automobile ride was as exhilarating as a drive behind a spirited horse, nor a trip by steam as soul-satisfying as a voyage by sail.

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