Acquire Quote by Ernst Lubitsch Download Open image “In Hollywood we acquire the finest novels in order to smell the leather bindings.” — Ernst Lubitsch ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Acquire Books Finest Finest Novels Hollywood Hollywood Acquire Leather Leather Bindings Novel Order Smell Smell Leather Writer
Novels written with film contracts in mind have a faint but unmistakable, and ruinous, odor. — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
I've got to stop being such a snob about leather-bound books, he reminded himself. E-books do have their moments. — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
“The bookstore itself was cozy but not crowded, with posters of classic novels framed and hung on the walls. And it was filled with… — Shaun David Hutchinson Copy Share Image
I read real books. On paper. You know, those printed books? I feel like this is the last thing I do to support my… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
The smell of a freshly printed book is the best smell in the world. — Karl Lagerfeld Copy Share Image
“I love the smell of a new book, but I prefer inhaling fresh bottles of ink and glue. They get me more lightheaded –… — Bauvard Copy Share Image
It is customary for the writer to sneer that Hollywood has traduced their book. Well, I adore my film. — Allison Pearson Copy Share Image
“The smell of books is the smell of us all coming together to document, entertain, and explain things for ourselves now and forever. It's… — Neil Pasricha Copy Share Image
“I want to upholster the inside lining of my nostrils with leather, to have that "new car smell" all the time.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Nobody should try to play comedy unless they have a circus going on inside. — Ernst Lubitsch Copy Share Image
The job of the director is to suggest two plus two. Let the viewer say four. — Ernst Lubitsch Copy Share Image
You could name the great stars of the silent screen who were finished; the great directors gone; the great title writers who were washed… — Ernst Lubitsch Copy Share Image
I've been to Paris, France, and I've been to Paris, Paramount. I think I prefer Paris, Paramount — Ernst Lubitsch Copy Share Image
I sometimes make pictures which are not up to my standard, but then it can only be said of a mediocrity that all his… — Ernst Lubitsch Copy Share Image
It is the task of the scenarist to invent little pieces of business that are so characteristic and give so deep an insight into… — Ernst Lubitsch Copy Share Image
I've been to Paris France and I've been to Paris Paramount. Paris Paramount is better. — Ernst Lubitsch Copy Share Image
I let the audience use their imaginations. Can I help it if they misconstrue my suggestions? — Ernst Lubitsch Copy Share Image
Any good movie is filled with secrets. If a director doesn't leave anything unsaid, it's a lousy picture. If a picture's unsaid, it's a… — Ernst Lubitsch Copy Share Image
Most people seek after what they do not possess and are enslaved by the very things they want to acquire. — Anwar Sadat Copy Share Image
If the State does not acquire supremacy over [vast private] enterprises, it becomes their puppet, and they become the real State. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Humility is an elusive virtue. The more we pursue it - and the more we seem to acquire it - the more we take… — Mike Aquilina Copy Share Image
Acquire worldly wisdom and adjust your behavior accordingly. If your new behavior gives you a little temporary unpopularity with your peer group then to… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
This was Shakespeare's form ; Who walk'd in every path of human life, Felt every passion ; and to all mankind Doth now, will… — Mark Akenside Copy Share Image
Wasn't Saddam destroyed? Wasn't Gaddafi liquidated? Didn't Milosevic go to the Hague? All true. But Stalin survived. Kim Jong-un isn't doing too badly, either… — Robert Fisk Copy Share Image
The best way for women to acquire knowledge is from conversation with a father, a brother, or a friend, in the way of family… — Anna Letitia Barbauld Copy Share Image
Have you ever wanted something so badly that you would do anything, believe anything in order to acquire it? — Lorraine Heath Copy Share Image
Ballet is pure and demands that you serve something larger than yourself, whether it be beauty or art, or a combination of both. It… — Peter Martins Copy Share Image
You can't know it all. No matter how smart you are, no matter how comprehensive your education, no matter how wide ranging your experience,… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
A better distribution of incomes would increase that efficiency by diverting a great fund of wealth from the useless to the useful members of… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
I know well, Monsieur, how much you have to endure in your present duty, and I ask Our Lord to strengthen you in your… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image