E. G. Marshall quote: "I try to think what the character is thinking. Then, hopefully, I begin to feel it. I act and react not because I'm recalling a dog killed by a fire engine, but because I'm concentrating on what the character is going through."

I used to watch movies - silent movies - and stock companies and theater whenever I could.
E. G. MARSHALL

When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand a...
E. G. STAKMAN

One single grateful thought raised to heaven is the most perfect prayer.
G. E. LESSING

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
E. E. CUMMINGS

To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Nothing recedes like progress.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
E. E. CUMMINGS

I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.
E. E. CUMMINGS

I imagine that yes is the only living thing.
E. E. CUMMINGS

At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.
E. E. CUMMINGS

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.
E. E. CUMMINGS

It takes three to make a child.
E. E. CUMMINGS

The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Here is little Effie's head. Her brains are made of gingerbread. When the judgement day comes, God w...
E E CUMMINGS

Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
E E CUMMINGS

It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.
E E CUMMINGS

He without fear is king of the world.
E. E. EDDISON

America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: Amer...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
E. E. CUMMINGS

To be nobody but yourself in a world that's doing its best to make you somebody else, is to fight th...
E. E. CUMMINGS

To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't whi...
E E CUMMINGS

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
E. E. CUMMINGS

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.
E. E. CUMMINGS

America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: Amer...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience ...
E. E. CUMMINGS

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody e...
E. E. CUMMINGS

A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. ...
E. E. CUMMINGS

I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blu...
E. E. CUMMINGS

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
E. E. CUMMINGS

A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Palm Sunday In the person of Christ, the formidable law of God, which by itself appalls us by its...
E. E. JENKINS

To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
E E CUMMINGS

The only man, woman, or child who ever wrote a simple declarative sentence with seven grammatical er...
E E CUMMINGS

To be nobody-but-yourself -- in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybod...
E E CUMMINGS

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybod...
E E CUMMINGS

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
E E CUMMINGS

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience ...
E E CUMMINGS

Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.
E E CUMMINGS

Life's not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis
E E CUMMINGS

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
E E CUMMINGS

I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
E E CUMMINGS

(i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens; only something in me understands
...
E E CUMMINGS

I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
E. E. CUMMINGS

It is with roses and locomotives (not to mention acrobats Spring electricity Coney Island the 4th of...
E. E. CUMMINGS

To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn&#...
E. E. CUMMINGS

who knows if the moon's / a balloon, coming out of a keen city / in the sky - filled with pretty peo...
E. E. CUMMINGS

for whatever we lose (like a you or a me) / it's always ourselves we find in the sea
E. E. CUMMINGS

The earth laughs in flowers.
E. E. CUMMINGS

The Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls are unbeautiful and have comfortable minds.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong...
E. E. CUMMINGS

To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't whi...
E. E. CUMMINGS

I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.
E. E. CUMMINGS

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody e...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Here is the deepest secret nobody knows.Here is the root of the root and the bud of the budAnd the s...
E. E. CUMMINGS

"maggie and millie and molly and may"maggie and millie and molly and maywent down to the beach (to p...
E. E. CUMMINGS

The sensual mysticism of entire vertical being.
E. E. CUMMINGS

and it's you whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you.
E. E. CUMMINGS

I don't know what it is about you that closes and opens;only something in me understands the voice o...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Art is a mystery.A mystery is something immeasurable.In so far as every child and woman and man may ...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Progress is a comfortable disease.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Since feeling is first, who pays any attention to the syntax of things will never wholly kiss you, w...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Be of love (a little) more careful than of anything.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink
E. E. CUMMINGS

We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, wort...
E. E. CUMMINGS

next to of course god america i / love you land of the pilgrims and so forth oh
E. E. CUMMINGS

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you like everyb...
E. E. CUMMINGS

he sang his didn't he danced his did
E. E. CUMMINGS

If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little -- somebody who is obses...
E. E. CUMMINGS

and down went / my Uncle / Sol / and started a worm farm
E. E. CUMMINGS

If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsess...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Bless the flowers and the weeds, my birds and bees
E. E. CUMMINGS

"maggie and millie and molly and may"

maggie and millie and molly and may
went down to ...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Why do you paint?
For exactly the same reason I breathe.
Thats not an answer.
There is...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.
PETER MARSHALL

Each of you, as an individual, must pick your own goals. Listen to others, but do not become a blind...
THURGOOD MARSHALL

The measure of life is not its duration, but its donation.
PETER MARSHALL

Where you see wrong or inequality or injustice, speak out, because this is your country. This is you...
THURGOOD MARSHALL

I set out to do a horror film with 'Dog Soldiers,' and what I came out with at the end of th...
NEIL MARSHALL

I'm very aware of the fact that Broadway musicals being brought to the screen are very few and f...
ROB MARSHALL

No political dreamer was ever wild enough to think of breaking down the lines which separate the Sta...
JOHN MARSHALL

Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand forbecause unless we stand...
PETER MARSHALL

The politics have always been difficult in medicine. There is some truth in the way medical practice...
BARRY MARSHALL

You can always find stress in someone's life if you want to. You ask a few questions, and eventu...
BARRY MARSHALL

Before the 20th century, the ulcer was not a respectable disease. Doctors would say, 'You're...
BARRY MARSHALL

If you say you are the Safe Food Foundation, that means you're implying that your food is safer ...
BARRY MARSHALL

My mother was a nurse, and in her era, most diseases weren't understood; people put mustard plas...
BARRY MARSHALL

There is no other prize in any country that carries the prestige that a Nobel bestows.
BARRY MARSHALL

My favourite book as a child was an old 'Newne's Children's Encyclopaedia' which my ...
BARRY MARSHALL

It was so frustrating to see ulcer patients having surgery, or even dying, when I knew a simple anti...
BARRY MARSHALL

Peptic ulcers became more common in the 20th century at the same time that these theories of Freud a...
BARRY MARSHALL

I am told by others that I have a lateral-thinking, broad approach to problems, sometimes to my detr...
BARRY MARSHALL

I was born in 1951 in Kalgoorlie, a prosperous mining town 370 miles east of Perth, Western Australi...
BARRY MARSHALL

I was hoping I was going to get an ulcer. I was hoping to boost my research career by developing a b...
BARRY MARSHALL

Dad always explained the car engine when he repaired it, and he had many technical books, so I was m...
BARRY MARSHALL

Everything that's supposedly caused by stress, I tell people there's a Nobel Prize there if ...
BARRY MARSHALL

The 20th-century ulcer epidemic was a sign of good health in American people - good diet, strong aci...
BARRY MARSHALL

In medical school, it's quite possible to get taught that you can diagnose everybody and treat e...
BARRY MARSHALL

Roman history was kind of unavoidable where I was growing up. It was everywhere - all the place name...
NEIL MARSHALL

I never got beaten up, because I was a wisecracking jokester. I could make a bully laugh before he d...
GARRY MARSHALL

My first name, with the rare two-r spelling, came from a sportswriter named Garry Schumacher. My par...
GARRY MARSHALL

A lot of people come work with me because I keep an open set, and people can visit. Julia Roberts us...
GARRY MARSHALL

I was a journalist. I was a drummer. I was everything. I didn't know what the heck I was. But wi...
GARRY MARSHALL

You go to a theater now and you literally see parents watching the movie and they suddenly cover the...
GARRY MARSHALL

I don't sit well. I like to move around as I talk.
GARRY MARSHALL

When I was five years old, my parents gave me a drum set for Christmas. My mom played the piano, and...
GARRY MARSHALL

My mother was funnier than anybody I ever worked for. My father was as funny as this coat. Not a lau...
GARRY MARSHALL

I didn't want to do movies with hundreds of camels crossing the desert followed by tanks and thi...
GARRY MARSHALL

We can't compete with Mel Gibson, but we figured we could do our part.
GARRY MARSHALL

Religion has a good place and it has its good people.
GARRY MARSHALL

My happiest moments of growing up in the Bronx were when my mom would bring home a new sports magazi...
GARRY MARSHALL

I must confess that the original 'Pretty Woman' was terrific and a hit, but I always felt th...
GARRY MARSHALL

There's no better satisfaction than writing. I feel that writing is the best and everything else...
GARRY MARSHALL

I try to find scripts of stories that kinda celebrate the human condition... let's talk about th...
GARRY MARSHALL

There is more to life than show business.
GARRY MARSHALL

Editing is the only process. The shooting is the pleasant work. The editing makes the movie, so I sp...
GARRY MARSHALL

I always wanted to be known as the Norman Rockwell of television, and 'Happy Days' represent...
GARRY MARSHALL

It's a hard job. It means giving up some things, but on the other hand they keep saying you can ...
GARRY MARSHALL

When in doubt, you bring in relatives. Nepotism is a part of my work.
GARRY MARSHALL

In the education of the American people, I am Recess.
GARRY MARSHALL

I am a total believer of making the process a good time - make it memorable, have some fun, try to s...
GARRY MARSHALL

Most people are alive in an earlier time, but you must be alive in our own time.
MARSHALL MCLUHAN

Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control me...
THURGOOD MARSHALL

For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies ...
MARSHALL MCLUHAN

A successful book cannot afford to be more than ten percent new.
MARSHALL MCLUHAN

Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.
MARSHALL MCLUHAN

Church members in too many cases are like deep sea divers, encased in the suits designed for many fa...
PETER MARSHALL

The school system, custodian of print culture, has no place for the rugged individual. It is, indeed...
MARSHALL MCLUHAN

I was doing 'Twin Peaks,' and Columbia called and said they wanted me to do 'Gladiator.&...
JAMES MARSHALL

American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting ag...
MARSHALL MCLUHAN

The world has enough women who know how to be smart. It needs women who are willing to be simple. Th...
PETER MARSHALL

The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village.
MARSHALL MCLUHAN

The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any me...
MARSHALL MCLUHAN

Publication is a self-invasion of privacy.
MARSHALL MCLUHAN

The real news is bad news.
MARSHALL MCLUHAN

The name of a man is a numbing blow from which he never recovers.
MARSHALL MCLUHAN

Jokes are grievances.
MARSHALL MCLUHAN

Listening well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.
JOHN MARSHALL

Right or wrong, the customer is always right.
MARSHALL FIELD

A different world cannot be built by indifferent people.
PETER MARSHALL

Ideally, advertising aims at the goal of a programmed harmony among all human impulses and aspiratio...
MARSHALL MCLUHAN

Advertising is the greatest art form of the twentieth century.
MARSHALL MCLUHAN

The modern little red riding hood, reared on singing commercials, has no objections to being eaten b...
MARSHALL MCLUHAN

Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for -- because unless we s...
PETER MARSHALL

Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.
MARSHALL FIELD

Today it is not the classroom nor the classics which are the repositories of models of eloquence, bu...
MARSHALL MCLUHAN

Money is a poor man's credit card.
MARSHALL MCLUHAN

Dancing with abandon, turning a tango into a fertility rite.
MARSHALL PUGH

It is critical vision alone which can mitigate the unimpeded operation of the automatic.
MARSHALL MCLUHAN

Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding,...
MARSHALL MCLUHAN

They exchanged the quick, brilliant smile of women who dislike each other on sight.
MARSHALL PUGH

In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.
THURGOOD MARSHALL

God will not permit any troubles to come upon us, unless He has a specific plan by which great bless...
PETER MARSHALL

I have tried to make all my acts and commercial moves the result of definite consideration and sound...
MARSHALL FIELD

When producers want to know what the public wants, they graph it as curves. When they want to tell t...
MARSHALL MCLUHAN

Today the tyrant rules not by club or fist, but, disguised as a market researcher, he shepherds his ...
MARSHALL MCLUHAN

At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer.
MARSHALL LUMSDEN

A child born to a Black mother in a state like Mississippi has exactly the same rights as a white ba...
THURGOOD MARSHALL

The successor to politics will be propaganda. Propaganda, not in the sense of a message or ideology,...
MARSHALL MCLUHAN

There is nothing an economist should fear so much as applause.
HERBERT MARSHALL

Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy.
MARSHALL MCLUHAN

There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.
MARSHALL MCLUHAN

One of the effects of living with electric information is that we live habitually in a state of info...
MARSHALL MCLUHAN

Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval.
MARSHALL MCLUHAN

Appetite is essentially insatiable, and where it operates as a criterion of both action and enjoymen...
MARSHALL MCLUHAN

If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatris...
MARSHALL MCLUHAN

Diaper backward spells repaid. Think about it.
MARSHALL MCLUHAN

The car has become an article of dress without which we feel uncertain, unclad, and incomplete.
MARSHALL MCLUHAN

The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man.
MARSHALL MCLUHAN

What is the quality of your intent?
THURGOOD MARSHALL

The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns.
MARSHALL MCLUHAN

The uncommitted life isn't worth living.
MARSHALL FISHWICK

Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.
MARSHALL MCLUHAN

It is the weak and confused who worship the pseudosimplicities of brutal directness.
MARSHALL MCLUHAN

Most of us know perfectly well what we ought to do; our trouble is that we do not want to do it.
PETER MARSHALL

For those for whom the sex act has come to seem mechanical and merely the meeting and manipulation o...
MARSHALL MCLUHAN

Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth.
--ALFRED MARSHALL

Morale is a state of mind. It is steadfastness and courage and hope.
GEORGE MARSHALL

Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for--because unless we sta...
PETER MARSHALL

Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the ri...
PETER MARSHALL

Give us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for, because unless we stand ...
PETER MARSHALL

You are leaving port under sealed orders and in a troubled period. You cannot know whither you are ...
PETER MARSHALL

Feast of Barnabas the Apostle Lord, when we are wrong, make us willing to change; and when we ar...
PETER MARSHALL

One of the hardest things in life is watching the person you love, love someone else.
PETER MARSHALL

Erwin Schrodinger has explained how he and his fellow physicists had agreed that they would report t...
MARSHALL MCLUHAN

We don't know who discovered water, but we know it wasn't the fish.
MARSHALL MCLUHAN

Gutenberg made everybody a reader. Xerox makes everybody a publisher.
MARSHALL MCLUHAN

Give us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for- because unless we stand ...
PETER MARSHALL

Lawlessness is lawlessness. Anarchy is anarchy is anarchy. Neither race nor color nor frustration is...
THURGOOD MARSHALL

Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist.
MARSHALL MACLUHAN

Good taste is the first refuge of the non creative. It is the last ditch stand of the artist.
MARSHALL MCLUHAN

Persons grouped around a fire or candle for warmth or light are less able to pursue independent thou...
MARSHALL MCLUHAN

Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's jobs with yesterday's tools...
MARSHALL MCLUHAN

Environments are not just containers, but are processes that change the content totally.
MARSHALL MCLUHAN

I try to think what the character is thinking. Then, hopefully, I begin to feel it. I act and react not because I'm recalling a dog killed by a fire engine, but because I'm concentrating on what the character is going through.

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I try to think what the character is thinking. Then, hopefully, I begin to feel it. I act and react not because I'm recalling a dog killed by a fire engine, but because I'm concentrating on what the character is going through.

E. G. Marshall

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