Props Quotes - Page 5

• When they saw me walking down the street smoking a cigar, they'd say, 'Hey, that 14-year-old kid may be going places.' Of course it's also a good prop on the stage ... When you can't think of what you're supposed to say next, you can puff on your cigar until you think of your next line.

  George Burns

  Kids, Thinking, Years

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• I don't like to eat in movies. I don't like props. Some people have always got to have a thing and they're doing this or doing that. I hate it. I just want to talk or fight. Or both!

  Mark Wahlberg

  Hate, Fighting, People

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I find my movie props in my neighbors houses.

  Zach Braff

  House, Neighbor

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• June Cleaver didn't keep her house in perfect order, the prop man did it.

  Barbara Billingsley

  Men, June, Order

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The objects that we have known in better days are the main props that sustain the weight of our affections, and give us strength to await our future lot.

  William Hazlitt

  Giving, Weight, Affection

  William Hazlitt (1857). “Table-talk: Original Essays on Men and Manners”, p.7

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• PEOPLE DIE.
  This is the fact the world desperately hides from us from birth. Long after you find out the truth about sex and Santa Claus, this other myth endures, this one about how you’ll always get rescued at the last second and if not, your death will at least mean something and there’ll be somebody there to hold your hand and cry over you. All of society is built to prop up that lie, the whole world a big, noisy puppet show meant to distract us from the fact that at the end, you’ll die, and you’ll probably be alone.

  David Wong

  Sex, Lying, Mean

  David Wong (2011). “John Dies at the End”, p.133, Titan Books

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• All of society is built to prop up that lie, the whole world a big, noisy puppet show meant to distract us from the fact that at the end, you'll die, and you'll probably be alone.

  David Wong

  Lying, World, Puppets

  David Wong (2011). “John Dies at the End”, p.133, Titan Books

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• Much can they praise the trees so straight and high, The sailing pine,the cedar proud and tall, The vine-prop elm, the poplar never dry, The builder oak, sole king of forests all, The aspin good for staves, the cypress funeral, The laurel, meed of mighty conquerors And poets sage, the fir that weepest still, The yew obedient to the bender's will, The birch for shafts, the sallow for the mill, The myrrh sweet-bleeding in the bitter wound, The warlike beech, the ash for nothing ill, The fruitful olive, and the platane round, The carver holm, the maple seldom inward sound.

  Edmund Spenser

  Sweet, Kings, Funeral

  1590 The Faerie Queen, bk.1, canto 1, stanzas 8-9. plantan=plane tree; holme=holly.

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• When I started driving our old four-door green DeSoto, I always took Skip on my trips around town. I would get Skip to prop himself against the steering wheel, his black head peering out of the windshield, while I crouched out of sight under the dashboard. Slowing the car to ten or fifteen, I would guide the steering wheel with my right hand while Skip, with his paws, kept it steady. As we drove by the Blue Front Café, I could hear one of the men shout: "Look at that ol' dog drivin' a car!"

  Willie Morris

  Funny, Dog, Men

  Willie Morris (2008). “My Dog Skip”, p.11, Vintage

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• I do like to keep mementos from my work, whether they be photos, the backs of make-up chairs or even props and clothes.

  Adam Garcia

  Clothes, Memento, Chairs

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• And by the way, I would not only reappoint Greenspan; if Greenspan would happen to die, God forbid, I would do like they did in the movie 'Weekend at Bernie's.' I would prop him up and put a pair of dark glasses on him.

  John McCain

  Dark, Weekend, Glasses

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• Some people drink to unleash their libidos, and other people drink to prop up their egos.

  Lou Reed

  People, Alcohol, Drug

  Song: The Power of Positive Drinking, Album: Growing Up in Public

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• I don't like having characters as props. I never want a character to be a prop.

  Will Gluck

  Character, Want

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm not a big prop actor.

  Nathan Fillion

  Actors, Bigs

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 11, 2013.

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• American society loves to prop people up and then take them down.

  Zach Galifianakis

  People, American Society

  "Megan Fox". Interview with Zach Galifianakis, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 2, 2010.

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• Tradition is a prop for social security.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Tradition, Social, Security

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• I did spend about 5 years in the Griffin Theatre Company in 1978 actually , and worked therefore about 5 years on a voluntary basis. This was very much as a amateur, doing things like mopping the floor, handling props, setting up scenery, etc. I never acted, and don't think I'm an actor, but those years in the theatre taught me a lot about professional theatre.

  Robert Dessaix

  Thinking, Years, Theatre

  Source: www.compulsivereader.com

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• God is Godless. God is an idea that we have, another construct, a prop, which doesn't suggest that God doesn't exist. God is existence. But your idea of God and existence are two different things at the moment.

  Frederick Lenz

  God, Ideas, Two

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• We had an electronic head and arm for Threepio, and I manipulated the mechanism with a joystick. But it wasn't working. The propman said, 'Give me fifteen minutes.' We all went to get coffee, and when we came back, Threepio's head turned perfectly and his arm moved naturally. I looked up and realized that the prop man had a fishing pole with a fine nylon string attached to Threepio's arm. He had rigged another string around the head, which Chewbacca was holding. As Chewie moved his hands, Threepio's head turned!

  Irvin Kershner

  Coffee, Men, Hands

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• Actions which are conscious expressions of the turn-on, tune-in, drop-out rhythm are religious.The wise person devotes his life exclusively to the religious search - for therein is found the only ecstasy, the only meaning. Anything else is a competitive quarrel over (or Hollywood-love sharing of) studio props.

  Timothy Leary

  Wise, Religious, Expression

  "Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out". Book by Timothy Leary, 1999.

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• There are dons who care for the intellect and the imagination, and there are priests who care for the spirit; but broadly speaking the function of universities and churches alike is to trim and tame enthusiasm, to suppress curiosity, and, in short, to whittle immortal souls into serviceable props of the established order.

  Hugh Kingsmill

  Order, Imagination, Soul

  Hugh Kingsmill (1949). “The Progress of a Biographer”

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• I'm not against government involvement in times of need. I am for recognizing that big public companies will continue to cut jobs in an effort to prop up stock prices, which in turn stimulates the need for more government involvement.

  Mark Cuban

  Jobs, Cutting, Government

  "MARK CUBAN: The Most Patriotic Thing You Can Do". www.businessinsider.com. September 19, 2011.

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• Do they still call it infatuation? That magic ax that chops away the world in one blow, leaving only the couple standing there trembling? Whatever they call it, it leaps over anything, takes the biggest chair, the largest slice, rules the ground wherever it walks, from a mansion to a swamp, and its selfishness is its beauty.... People with no imagination feed it with sex -- the clown of love. They don't know the real kinds, the better kinds, where losses are cut and everybody benefits. It takes a certain intelligence to love like that -- softly, without props.

  Toni Morrison

  Love, Sex, Couple

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• The negative way [of describing God] is a cardboard prop of Christianity to conceal its unknowable God. When this prop collapses, theistic agnosticism emerges, complete with its package of contradictions and non-sensical utterances.

  George H. Smith

  Negative, Utterance, Way

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• I wanted to be in the FBI. I also wanted to be a pie salesman. It was so intense that the studio got the prop department to make a little pie wagon and they filled it with tarts. I wheeled it around the set and sold them to the crew. I was about eight years old. I always sold out and I didn't have to pay for them. It was a great deal.

  Shirley Temple

  Eight, Years, Pie

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