“The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.”
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Open letter to the Masters of Dublin (1913)
Context: The relation of landlord and tenant is not an ideal one, but any relations in a social order will endure if there is infused into them some of that spirit of human sympathy, which qualifies life for immortality. Despotisms endure while they are benevolent, and aristocracies while noblesse oblige is not a phrase to be referred to with a cynical smile. Even an oligarchy might be permanent if the spirit of human kindness, which harmonises all things otherwise incompatible, is present.
“There's an old saying in Hollywood: It's not the length of your film, it's how you use it.”
Reported in Inside Oscar 2 (2002) by Damien Bona
“Absolutely, in fact, climate change is directly related to the growth of terrorism.”
Democratic debate on CBS News, when Moderator John Dickerson asked if Sanders believed climate change was the greatest threat to national security http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/cnsnewscom-staff/bernie-sanders-climate-change-greatest-security-threat-and-directly (14 November 2015)
2010s, 2015
Source: "Notes on the Theory of Organization," 1937, p. 9-10
TV Guide interview, on becoming Angel again.
letter, 24 June 1930, to Frank Harris "To Frank Harris on Sex in Biography" Sixteen Self Sketches (1949)
1940s and later
“Living proof that a pig's bladder on the end of a stick can be elected to Parliament”
"Tony Banks close to death after stroke" http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article337229.ece, The Independent (online edition), 8 January 2006.
on right-wing Conservative MP Terry Dicks