F.B. Newman Quotes

God bless the potholes on Memory Lane.

Newman's first law: It is useless to put on your brakes when you're upside down.

Health of body and mind is a great blessing, if we can bear it.

Regarding Christianity: Ten thousand difficulties do not make one doubt.

When men understand what each other mean, they see, for the most part, that controversy is either superfluous or hopeless

It's really important to be attentive to the people who have less - who are less fortunate than you are.

Being on President Nixon's enemies list was the highest single honor I've ever received. Who knows who's listening to me now and what government list I'm on?

Acting is like letting your pants down; you're exposed.

It's always darkest before it turns absolutely pitch black.

I have vision and the rest of the world wears bifocals.

To be deep in history, is to cease to be Protestant.

It's been a privilege to be here.

By a garden is meant mystically a place of spiritual repose, stillness, peace, refreshment, delight.

The camera is a mirror with a memory, but it cannot think.

On adultery: "Why fool around with hamburger when you have steak at home?

A lot of people have dreams and never do anything about them. When you have ideas and dreams, you do something about it.

I don't think there's anything exceptional or noble in being philanthropic. It's the other attitude that confuses me.

Language is in decline. Not only has eloquence departed but simple, direct speech as well, though pomposity and banality have not.

I have taken roads that I wished I had not traveled on. And I'm traveling on some pretty exciting ones, too.

I will continue to get behind the wheel of a racing car as long as I am able. But that could all end tomorrow.

If I ever feel like I’m doing something I’ve done before, I scrap it and start over again.

I like science - geography, meteorology, cosmology.

You keep wondering whether people will see that Barack Obama is a liar and not very bright.

Nothing is more common than for men to think that because they are familiar with words they understand the ideas they stand for.

People become who they are. Even Beethoven became Beethoven.

Those who call themselves art photographers are pompous, arrogant egoists.

The problem of a painting is physical and metaphysical, the same as I think life is physical and metaphysical.

We have lost contact with man's natural desire for the exalted, for a concern with our relation to absolute emotions.

Who's to say who's an expert?

The only question I ever ask any woman is, 'what time is your husband coming home?'

If you need somebody to dig up rocks eight hours a day underwater, call me.

You've got troubles, I've got 'em too. There isn't anything I wouldn't do for you. We'll stick together to see it through cause you've got a friend in me.

History is no more than memories refreshed.

Short people got no reason to live.

I'm a great believer in luck and the extraordinary role that plays in all of our lives.

Most people go not by argument, but by sympathies.

If you have no enemies, you have no character.

The characters I have the least in common with are the ones I have the greatest success with. The further a role is from my own experience, the more I try to deepen it.

It's like chasing a beautiful woman for 80 years. Finally, she relents and you say, 'I'm terribly sorry. I'm tired.'

Men experience many passions in a lifetime. One passion drives away the one before it.

Calculation never made a hero.

I've always had a lot of respect from the people I respected.

Praise to the Holiest in the height, And in the depth be praise; In all His words most wonderful, Most sure in all His ways.

If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable... we must be content to creep along the ground, and never soar.

I see nothing in the theory of evolution inconsistent with an Almighty Creator and Protector.

Natural law. Sons are put on this earth to trouble their fathers.

An actor has to evaluate his own abilities and be honest with himself.

Ideas visuales combinadas con tecnología e interpretación personal es igual a fotografía

From salad dressings all blessings flow.

You can't stop being a citizen just because you have a Screen Actors' Guild card.