Louis Calhern quotes

Louis Calhern quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“After all, crime is only a left-handed form of human endeavor.”
-- Louis Calhern

Source : "Fictional character: Alonzo Emmerich". "The Asphalt Jungle", 1950.

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“How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them.”
“Lists are a form of power.”
“Supply and demand regulate architectural form.”
“You get to be wiser by storying the world and seeing it through other forms of consciousness than your own.”

Source : "Shock tactics" by Alison Brace, www.theguardian.com. July 10, 2000.
“To play Trivial Pursuit with a life like mine could be said to be a form of homeopathy.”
“In my introductory course, Anthropology 160, the Forms of Folklore, I try to show the students what the major and minor genres of folklore are, and how they can be analyzed.”
“We must reject dictatorship in whatever form it takes--and especially when it rears its head in our own midst on the bench.”
“To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.”
“What we desire our children to become, we must endeavor to be before them”

Source : Andrew Combe (1871). “The Management of Infancy, Physiological and Moral: Intended Chiefly for the Use of Parents”, p.251
“Making your life is ultimately an extraordinarily creative endeavor.”

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