121 Quotes by Dalton Trumbo

You show me a politician with his heels ten feet in the air, and by Judas priest, Ill show you an honest politician.

If I were dead and buried And I heard your voice, Beneath the sod My heart of dust Would still rejoice.

Goodbye, my love, my life. Goodbye, goodbye.

Now I lay me down to sleep my bomb proof cellar's good and deep but if i'm killed before I wake remember god it's for your sake amen.

What's so noble about being dead?

Nothing is bigger than life. There's nothing noble in death. What's noble about never seeing the sunshine again? What's noble about having your legs and arms blown off? What's noble about being an idiot? What's noble about being blind and deaf and dumb? What's noble about being dead?

There's a game out there, and the stakes are high. And the guy who runs it figures the averages all day long and all night long. Once in a while he lets you steal a pot. But if you stay in the game long enough, you've got to lose. And once you've lost there's no way back, no way at all.

Bankers, nepotists, contracts and talkies: on four fingers one may count the leeches which have sucked a young and vigorous industry into paresis.

I feel like my sixteenth birthday and the time I graduated from high school, and the first time I flew solo all wrapped up in one.