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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 8ce6e57 | I believe in friendship and I am willing to show my friendship first. | Mario Puzo | ||
| 1da6493 | The meeting would be safe as a wedding. | Mario Puzo | ||
| b5de1d9 | This country has been good to me. | Mario Puzo | ||
| 327e782 | Bet, ak vai, cik launa bija pasaule, kas lika cilvekam grekot. | Mario Puzo | ||
| 8673ddf | Mercy is a vice, a pretension to powers we do not have. Those who give mercy commit an unpardonable offense to the victim. And that is not our duty here on earth. | Mario Puzo | ||
| fc4089a | Uxuriousness may be the last refuge of the honest man, | Mario Puzo | ||
| 04b8bba | For the first time the Don showed annoyance. He poured another glass of anisette and drank it down. He pointed a finger at his son. "You want to learn," he said. "Now listen to me. A man's first duty is to keep himself alive. Then comes what everyone else calls honor. This dishonor, as you call it, I willingly take upon myself. I did it to save your life as you once took on dishonor to save mine. You would have never left Sicily alive witho.. | honor inevitability mafia michael-corleone survival the-godfather the-sicilian vito-corleone | Mario Puzo | |
| 42f3742 | We hope someday to be saints, but not martyrs | saints | Mario Puzo | |
| 8c9d3c4 | Always remember that and live your life not to be a hero but to remain alive. With time, heroes seem a little foolish. | Mario Puzo | ||
| 7c12fbd | El mayor de todos los males es el poder_ contesto el sumo pontifice_, y es nuestro deber borrar cualquier deseo de poder de los corazones y las almas de los hombres. Esa es la mision de la Iglesia, pues es la lucha por el poder lo que hace que los hombres se enfrentan unos a otros. Ahi radica el mal de nuestro mundo; siempre sera un mundo injusto, siempre sera un mundo cruel para los menos afortunados. Quien sabe,,, Es posible que dentro de.. | humanity-and-society philosophy religion | Mario Puzo | |
| 8143670 | As bread is sweet to us," he said, "so is the blood of the poor to the rich who drink it." It" | Mario Puzo | ||
| a4b734e | It was understood, it was mere good manners, to proclaim that you were in his debt and that he had the right to call upon you at any time to redeem your debt by some small service. Now | Mario Puzo | ||
| bff5f86 | Natuurlijk gebeurde dit allemaal heel lang geleden en kan zoiets nu niet meer gebeuren. Niet in onze tijd. | tweede-wereldoorlog | John Boyne | |
| 8c5f476 | Kay could see how Michael stood to receive their homage. He reminded her of statues in Rome, statues of those Roman emperors of antiquity, who, by divine right, held the power of life and death over their fellow men. One hand was on his hip, the profile of his face showed a cold proud power, his body was carelessly, arrogantly at ease, weight resting on one foot slightly behind the other. The caporegimes stood before him. In that moment Kay.. | fiction power | Mario Puzo | |
| dfed45d | It's more important that you grow up to be a man," he said, "than to be a genius." | Mario Puzo | ||
| e1cee94 | The Don sighed. "Well, then I can't talk to you about how you should behave. Don't you want to finish school, don't you want to be a lawyer? Lawyers can steal more money with a briefcase than a thousand men with guns and masks." | Mario Puzo | ||
| fd04967 | Neri was content, satisfied that he lived in a world that properly rewarded a man who did his duty. | Mario Puzo | ||
| 2da7bda | The man who plays alone never loses.' " Guiliano" | Mario Puzo | ||
| 967ac27 | Life is so beautiful. | Mario Puzo | ||
| ff50cc2 | Fari vagnari a pizzu." Pizzu means the beak of any small bird such as a canary." | Mario Puzo | ||
| a3c58fd | Anybody. She uses her body like I use the loose | Mario Puzo | ||
| a82f1e4 | U kazhdogo nakhoditsia predlog dlia togo, chtoby postupit'sia svoei dobrodetel'iu. I lomaiut tebia, tol'ko kogda ty sam gotov slomat'sia. | Mario Puzo | ||
| 5e1281d | Revenge is a dish that tastes best when it is cold, | Mario Puzo | ||
| 3fa6413 | Friendship is everything. Friendship is more than talent. It is more than government. It is almost the equal of family. Never forget that. If you had built up a wall of friendships you wouldn't have to ask me to help. | Mario Puzo | ||
| 04147e6 | Don Vito Corleone was a man to whom everybody came for help, and never were they disappointed. He made no empty promises, nor the craven excuse that his hands were tied by more powerful forces in the world than himself. | Mario Puzo | ||
| 5d04c13 | Like Paul Jobs, Joanne Schieble was from a rural Wisconsin family of German heritage. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 80b5e55 | You did the impossible, because you didn't realize it was impossible. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 1d58fe8 | The fight spilled out into the press. Allen blasted the censors. "They are a bit of executive fungus that forms on a desk that has been exposed to conference. Their conferences are meetings of men who can do nothing but collectively agree that nothing can be done." The thin-skinned network reacted again, cutting Allen off in the middle of a barb. Now other comics joined the fray. That week Red Skelton said on his show that he'd have to be c.. | John Dunning | ||
| e660122 | claimed he was a victim of Stop the Music, a big-money giveaway show that ABC had inserted into the 8 o'clock Sunday timeslot. But other critics suggested that the old formulas that Allen had been using for 18 years had simply worn themselves out. He dropped from the top to 38th on the charts in one year. His sponsor offered to move him, but he refused to take a more advantageous schedule. He was a regular on The Big Show, but his life afte.. | John Dunning | ||
| 30b0804 | When Roosevelt was elected, rumors spread that Coughlin was in line for a high administrative post and would quit the church to enter government service. But this failed to materialize, and Coughlin became disenchanted with Roosevelt as well. His first public break with Roosevelt came in 1934, when he urged payment of a soldiers' bonus and the president publicly threatened to veto it. By 1935 Coughlin's break with Roosevelt was complete; by.. | John Dunning | ||
| dbcac1e | This series capitalized on the new Red scare of the early 1950s: 78 episodes were recorded, without any assistance from the FBI, which refused to cooperate. It didn't matter: anti-Communist hysteria was at a peak, and by the end of 1952 I Was a Communist was scheduled on more than 600 stations--far more than if it had been on any network. The show was based on the book (and subsequent movie) by Matt Cvetic and purportedly told of his advent.. | John Dunning | ||
| ec24098 | After Orson Welles terrified the nation with his Halloween 1938 War of the Worlds broadcast, his name became a household word. The immediate result was sponsorship for his theatrical air company, The Mercury Theater on the Air. Campbell Soups had been sponsoring the once-famed but fading variety hour Hollywood Hotel, which closed its doors in December 1938. The soup company immediately picked up Welles and his players, and the first Campbel.. | John Dunning | ||
| 323091b | Crosby's name was mentioned, and Peyton got on the telephone. He tracked Crosby to the set of The Bells of St. Mary's, where Crosby was working on the role, ironically, of a priest. On the spur of the moment, Crosby agreed to do the show. Francis Cardinal Spellman also appeared, and the Mother's Day broadcast was such a success that Peyton pushed ahead with plans for a regular series. Mutual donated the time, under four conditions: that the.. | John Dunning | ||
| 649fcd3 | The stories reveal little or no religious dogma: they are virtually indistinguishable from other high-quality anthologies on the air. There were 482 dramas broadcast. Father Peyton himself released almost the entire run to collectors. In 1967 he published his autobiography, All for Her, which includes several chapters on his radio work. | John Dunning | ||
| 669bc05 | In his four months in England, wrote Corwin, "I did not once interview a high government official. The main objective of the series was to establish the character of the British people and not disseminate the handouts of the Ministry of Information. The people were soldiers, sailors, workers, miners, the theater manager, the elevator man, Police Officer Gilbert, the Everingtons, the Westerbys, Betty Hardy the actress, Henry Blogg the lifesa.. | John Dunning | ||
| 9044b5c | As many as three characters were murdered in a single quarter-hour ILAM episode. People were killed in ghoulish, imaginative, and sometimes mystifying ways. Throats were ripped out by wolves; there were garrotings and poisonings and mysterious slashings. In the story Monster in the Mansion, a headless black cat was found in a lady's bed, and a man had his arm amputated while he slept; in The Thing That Cries in the Night, a slasher was at w.. | John Dunning | ||
| b4005a6 | An example of such was the story of three travelers who crash their car and are thrown back into prehistoric times. They encounter a Neanderthal man who doesn't respond to reason and must be shot. "This is Oboler's oblique approach to alerting the public that tyranny could only be dealt with by force of arms, not appeasement." -- | John Dunning | ||
| 715e5e5 | Cassidy had been created by Clarence Mulford, writer of formula western novels and pulpy short stories. In the stories, Cassidy was a snorting, drinking, chewing relic of the Old West. Harry Sherman changed all that when he bought the character for the movies. Sherman hired Boyd, a veteran of the silent screen whose star had faded, to play a badman in the original film. But Boyd seemed more heroic, and Sherman switched the parts before the .. | John Dunning | ||
| 686e176 | Newspapers ran the wrong mugshots, and it was the self-fulfilling prophecy: the studios, believing his name had been damaged, canceled his contracts. Only four years later did Hopalong Cassidy ride up and save him. Boyd made more than 50 Cassidy films with Sherman, and another dozen on his own between 1943 and 1946. His acquisition of the Cassidy film library was complete by 1948, when he joined the Whites in the radio venture. | John Dunning | ||
| 50bf509 | a western hero, as writer J. Bryan III described it in a 1939 Saturday Evening Post article, "who goes around righting wrongs against tremendous odds and then disappearing immediately." Trendle is given the salient quote. "I see him as a sort of lone operator. He could even be a former Texas Ranger." At this point, according to Bryan, one of the XYZ staffers cried, "There's his name! The Lone Ranger! It's got everything!" | John Dunning | ||
| 8309264 | Irene Rich had been a notable star of the silent screen in the 1920s, playing opposite Will Rogers, Dustin Farnum, and Wallace Beery. But a disagreement with Warner Brothers sent her into a new career--radio! By her own account, it was an inspiration: at "three o'clock in the morning I took a plane for New York, and the next day I presented myself at the National Broadcasting studios." Irene Rich Dramas, which ran for more than a decade in .. | John Dunning | ||
| a0eae23 | A listen to tapes only confirms the judgment of contemporary critics. This was truly a bad show, a creaking monstrosity, an ill wind whose time had inexplicably come. Who cared if the contestant won the refrigerator? Refrigerators were boring. | John Dunning | ||
| 2094b1b | It Pays to Be Ignorant was radio's lamebrained answer to such intellectual quizzes as Information, Please and The Quiz Kids. It was a feast of the absurd in which questions were asked but seldom answered. The three nitwits who made up the "board of experts" spent most of the time trying to figure out what the questions were, between rambling monologues, irrelevancies, and rude interruptions." | John Dunning | ||
| e40d9ec | Kenny Baker, brought another dimension of comedy to the singer's role, the addled young man with the voice of gold. His tenure was solid, four full seasons. He was almost, but not quite, the answer in the singer's role. | John Dunning |