Clifford Odets famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Life shouldn't be printed on dollar bills.
-- Clifford Odets

#Dollar Bills #Dollars #Bills
There are two kinds of marriages - where the husband quotes the wife and where the wife quotes the husband.
-- Clifford Odets

#Husband #Two #Wife
Music is the great cheer-up in the language of all countries.
-- Clifford Odets

#Country #Cheer #Language
There are 43,000 minutes in a month - can't you give me five?
-- Clifford Odets

#Giving #Months #Minutes
Sex is the poor man's polo.
-- Clifford Odets

#Sexy #Men #Poor
One night some short weeks ago, for the first time in her not always happy life, Marilyn Monroe's soul sat down alone to a quiet supper from which it did not rise.
-- Clifford Odets

#Life Is Short #Happy Life #Night
If they tell you that she died of sleeping pills you must know that she died of a wasting grief, of a slow bleeding at the soul.
-- Clifford Odets

#Sad #Suicide #Grief
Mr President, the president is dead.
-- Clifford Odets

#President
It's the Twentieth Century ... no more miracles.
-- Clifford Odets

#Miracle #Century #Twentieth Century

One thing more dangerous than getting between a grizzly sow and her cub is getting between a businessman and a dollar bill.
The major material advantage, financial advantage from having a reserve currency is that between 200 and 300 billion dollar bills, that may be twenty, fifty, hundred dollar bills as well as ones, exist in the world - a lot of them in Russia as you all know I'm sure.
Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.
Forget the camera, forget the lens, forget all of that. With any four-dollar camera, you can capture the best picture.
When you only have a million dollar annual budget and a Super Bowl ad costs $4 million, you have to do something very creative to get onto the Super Bowl.
When a woman earns a dollar, the payback is higher. She'll invest in her children, in their education, health care, and basic needs. The impact of a woman's role in the economy benefits society at large.
The boom was healthy too, even with its excesses. Because what this incredible valuation craze did was draw untold sums of billions of dollars into building the Internet infrastructure. The hundreds of billions of dollars that got invested in telecommunications, for example.
Whores are the most honest girls. They present the bill right away.
The truth is, after all the declamations we have heard, that the Constitution is itself, in every rational sense, and to every useful purpose, A BILL OF RIGHTS.
I go further, and affirm that bills of rights, in the sense and to the extent in which they are contended for, are not only unnecessary in the proposed Constitution, but would even be dangerous. They would contain various exceptions to powers not granted; and on this very account, would afford a colorable pretext to claim more than were granted. For why declare that things shall not be done which there is no power to do?

Clifford Odets famous quotes

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