121 Quotes by Dalton Trumbo

America I love you you’re like a sweetheart to me.

New nursery rhymes for new times. HIckory dickery dock my daddy’s nuts from shelshock. Humpty dumpty thought he was wise till gas came along and hurned out his eyes. A dillar a dollar a ten o-clock schollar blow off his legs and then watch him holler...

But he would like to feel that he was breathing the same air she breathed that he was in the same country she was in.

One of the disadvantages of being a patrician is that occasionally you’re obliged to act like one.

But he could believe anything from now on out. A million to one ten million to one there was always the one.

I will, proudly and by preference, do at least one picture a year for King Brothers, and I will try to make it the best picture that I have it in me to do.

It was like sitting in a silent room waiting for someone very important someone for whom you have been waiting a long while and then suddenly hearing a knock on the door. For just a minute you hesitate wondering who it might be and what does he want and why did he come. For just a second you’re scared because although you’ve waited for years you really never expected the knock.

Nobody but the dead know whether all these things people talk about are worth dying for or not. And the dead can’t talk. So the words about noble deaths and sacred blood and honor and such are all put into dead lips by grave robbers and fakes who have no right to speak for the dead. If a man says death before dishonor he is either a fool or a liar because he doesn’t know what death is. He isn’t able to judge. He only knows about living. He doesn’t know anything about dying.

Hmmmm. But what do the dead say? Did.