Gene Siskel Quotes

I'm not surprised that Spielberg was able to capture the heroism of Schindler; so many of his movies are about the better part of mankind. ~ Gene Siskel

In Dallas for the premier of '9 to 5', I had an uncanny experience, and on the plane home to Chicago I confessed it to Siskel: I had been granted a private half hour with Dolly Parton, and as we spoke I was filled with a strange ethereal grace. This was not spiritual, nor was it sexual. It was healing and comforting. Gene listened and said, "Roger, I felt the exact same thing during my interview with her." We looked at each other. What did this mean? Neither one of us ever felt that feeling again. From time to time we would refer to it in wonder. ~ Roger Ebert

You think you know it, but you always find out new stuff. ~ Gene Siskel

We'd rather see a picture that we liked then dump on one we didn't. ~ Gene Siskel

I would rather turn my head and cough than see any part of 'Patch Adams' again. The title of this movie should have been 'Punch Adams!' ~ Gene Siskel

We don't pretend to disagree. ~ Gene Siskel

They know they got the TV ad, they know they got the name recognition, they know that they can do a tie in with McDonald's or some fast food outlet and the money is just gonna flow in. ~ Gene Siskel

The only actor who I think probably might have possibly taken a swing at me if he could have would be Burt Reynolds. He used to call Roger and me the Bruise Brothers, out of Chicago. ~ Gene Siskel

That's probably when I get the most angry at American movies, when they just so cynically manipulate the audience without even trying to give a good story. ~ Gene Siskel

In fact, Cannonball Run II. I used to pick that as the worst movie ever made. ~ Gene Siskel

There is a point when a personal opinion shades off into an error of fact. ~ Gene Siskel

The result is a picture that represents so much of what I want and rarely get from a movie - a couple of hours filled with characters who are as exciting as the people I know in real life. ~ Gene Siskel

For my 50th birthday, I got ahold of a new print of 'Saturday Night Fever.' I see it much more as a tough coming-of-age movie than as a disco story. ~ Gene Siskel

Gene [Siskel] often mentioned something François Truffaut once told him: the most beautiful sight in a movie theater is to walk down to the front, turn around, and look at the light from the screen reflected on the upturned faces of the members of the audience. ~ Roger Ebert

John Goodman is more that just a big guy, he's a wonderful actor. ~ Gene Siskel

A film that aims low should not be praised for hitting that target. ~ Gene Siskel

I remember the Hunt from ten years ago. How for months afterward I didn't dare fall asleep because of the nightmares that would invade my mind: hideous images of an imagines Hunt, wet and violent and full of blood. Horrific cries of fear and panic, the sound of flesh ripped and bones crushed puncturing the night stillness. ~ Andrew Fukuda

Some films could only have been cast in one way: Screen tests were given and the losers got the parts. ~ Gene Shalit

Ch'in Shih-huang is the first emperor of China. He united seven separate kingdoms into a single nation. He built the Great Wall and was buried with the terra-cotta soldiers. The Chinese have mixed feelings about him. They're proud of the nation he created, but he was a maniacal tyrant. ~ Gene Luen Yang

Millions of people across the world live in a state of acute environmental crises caused by the lack of access to safe and usable water resources, because of natural disasters, socio-economic conditions, wars and conflicts. At Green the Gene, we are developing extremely simple yet highly technology and data intensive solutions tailored to address extremely specific problems faced by communities. ~ Madhav Datt

They are but children. ~ Gene Brewer

If indeed this is the work of God ... then it's a crisis that calls for the church to be its very best self, and not worry about risking itself for the right thing. ~ Gene Robinson

We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last. ~ Gene Wolfe

He did not want to fail, when the Bee Master had trusted him with the home and the possessions and the occupation that were all he had of his very own, and he did not know that as the storm drew nearer, as the clouds grew blacker, as the heat waves resolved themselves into definite flashes of lightning, as the night closed down black as velvet around him, he did not realize that his moral and mental forces were rising with the tide of the storm, that all the remnants of manhood left in his shaken body were gathering together for some sort of culmination, just as presently the storm would reach its height and then subside. ~ Gene Stratton-Porter

Herb Kent is one of the great DJs of all time, and one of the great human beings of all time. ~ Gene Chandler

Dictatorships are never as strong as they think they are, and people are never as weak as they think they are. ~ Gene Sharp

That's it!" Victoria dramatically threw her hands up, disrupting people around them. "It's official. You inherited it."
"What?"
"The idiot gene. ~ J.M. Darhower

I object," said the man emphatically. He stopped work again and studied Elnora. Even the watching mother could not blame him. Against the embankment, in the shade of the bridge Elnora's bright head, and her lavender dress made a picture worthy of much contemplation.
I object!" repeated the man. ~ Gene Stratton-Porter

One of the ways [racism] pops up is when they turn a comic into a live-action movie and there's this temptation to make Asian characters white. ~ Gene Luen Yang

I've never felt a pain that didn't bear a blessing.
~ Gene Knudsen Hoffman

All beds became deathbeds at last. ~ Gene Wolfe

Understand this: The Bible presents Christ. You have an inner sense of an indwelling Lord. You either have that or you do not. The man God needs will live in a vital, living relationship with Jesus Christ. ~ Gene Edwards

We are all more interested in ourselves than in any one else in this world, until love comes; then we soon learn to a love man more than life, and when a child comes we learn another love, so clear, so high, so purifying, that we become of no moment at all, and live only for those we love." "You ~ Gene Stratton-Porter

We are going to put out a boxed set thing, but I don't want to do it yet. I want to wait until we're 45 and we're bitter and broke. Then, we'll put out the comprehensive Ween boxed set. ~ Gene Ween

All of us ... when we think we are talking most intimately to someone else, are actually addressing an image we have of the person to whom we believe we speak. ~ Gene Wolfe

A second later, Douglas Bruce entered. Rushing to Leslie he caught her to his breast roughly, while with a strong hand he pressed her ear against his heart. 'Now you listen, my girl!' he cried, 'Listen at close range.'

Leslie remained quiet a long second, then she lifted her face: adorable misty-eyed, and tenderly smiling. 'Douglas, I never listened to a heart before. How do I know what it is saying? I can't tell whether it is talking about me, or protesting against the way you've rushed around. ~ Gene Stratton-Porter

As a dancer, obviously, we are all inspired by Michael Jackson, and I always looked up to Gene Kelly. He was a bigger version of Fred Astaire, and he was amazing as well. ~ Maksim Chmerkovskiy

Do you think there are answers to everything here? Is that true in the place you come from? ~ Gene Wolfe

You don't have to flaunt your success, but you don't have to apologize for it, either ~ Gene Stallings

That spring I decided if school didn't stop pretty soon, I'd run away again, and I didn't in the least care what they did to me. ~ Gene Stratton-Porter

I think when you run by someone and there's a thumbs up or encouragement, that's something that I really love. It's a brotherhood, a support and an appreciation for the effort we're all making. I think it's also about living well, living healthy, taking care of ourselves, getting in touch with ourselves, our bodies, our minds. It's a mind-body connection that running helps enhance. ~ Gene Baur

Never negotiate with kids. They don't have life experience, and they don't have repercussions for bad decisions; they still get fed and housed. ~ Gene Simmons

Dez, on the other hand, was pure backcountry Pennsylvania; a blue-eyed blonde who could have been a model for fitness equipment if not for what JT personally viewed as an overactive redneck gene. ~ Jonathan Maberry

There was a misconception about me when I started off because I had my hair greased up and I have some vague resemblance to the hillbilly gene pool that Elvis came from. People would say, 'You want to be Elvis' and I would say, 'No'. ~ Chris Isaak

Stability is why society has an interest in marriage. ~ Gene Robinson

The gene pool ran pretty small on the Arizona Strip. ~ Betty Webb

The problem with being a gun rights supporter is that the left hates guns and the right hates rights. ~ Gene Hoffman

One would think that [persecution] would be an obstacle to church growth when joining the church meant a death sentence. And yet, the age of persecution was the greatest period of church growth in history. ~ Gene Veith

If a man bullies a woman, all the women turn against him. Then the other men mock him because he sleeps alone. ~ Gene Wolfe

The plea agreement negotiated by Janet Reno's Justice Department with Nora, Gene and Trisha Lum is a hoax. It allows two key players in the campaign finance scandal to plead to lesser offenses and effectively concludes a serious investigation that, if taken to a conclusion, could have seriously affected the Clinton Administration's claim that it committed no illegalities in the campaign finance scandal. Nora Lum was a close confidant of Ron Brown and remains close to John Huang. Trisha Lum, her daughter, worked for Brown at the Commerce Department and worked on trade missions. ~ Larry Klayman

Palmer was the big gun as far as getting the tour to where it is today. He was the most charismatic player ever. He did everything the public wanted him to do. ~ Gene Littler