“ 'Gone With The Wind' is one of the all-time greats. Read Margaret Mitchell's book and watch the film again; it's a soap opera in all its glory. It is superb and memorable. ”
- Timothy Dalton- Copy
- 1.1K
“ You gotta be careful with your body. Your body is like a bar of soap. The more you use it, the more it wears down. ”
- Richie Allen- Copy
- 1.9K
“ There's something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after she's only measured water in it. ”
- Erma Bombeck- Copy
- 2.7K
“ Eddie Fisher married to Elizabeth Taylor is like me trying to wash the Empire State Building with a bar of soap. ”
- Don Rickles- Copy
- 2.2K
“ The catalogue of miseries seems to cry out for commercial spots and a station break: the stuff of noonday soap opera. ”
- Stefan Kanfer- Copy
- 452
“ Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble? ”
- Alan Perlis- Copy
- 1.8K
“ There are four things a child needs: plenty of love, nourishing food, regular sleep, and lots of soap and water. ”
- Ivy Baker Priest- Copy
- 2.9K
“ Sensual pleasures are like soap bubbles, sparkling, effervescent. The pleasures of intellect are calm, beautiful, sublime, ever enduring and climbing upward to the borders of the unseen world. ”
- John H. Aughey- Copy
- 1.9K
“ Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it — or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it. ”
- Gilbert K. Chesterton- Copy
- 94
“ Fatherhood is pretending the present you love the most is soap-on-a-rope. ”
- Bill Cosby- Copy
- 3K
“ Men like to pursue an elusive woman like a cake of wet soap — even men who hate baths. ”
- Frank Gelett Burgess- Copy
- 3.4K
“ If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair. ”
- C. S. Lewis- Copy
- 3.5K
“ In Marseilles they make half the toilet soap we consume in America, but the Marseillaise only have a vague theoretical idea of its use, which they have obtained from books of travel. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
- 785
“ To become a celebrity is to become a brand name. There is Ivory Soap, Rice Krispies, and Philip Roth. Ivory is the soap that floats; Rice Krispies the breakfast cereal that goes snap-crackle-pop; Philip Roth the Jew who masturbates with a piece of liver. ”
- Philip Roth- Copy
- 2.8K
“ People tell me not to do a soap, but it was a great learning experience because I became familiar with the technical aspects of the business. Besides, look who came out of soaps - Julianne Moore, Demi Moore, Tommy Lee Jones, Parker Posey, Kathleen Turner… ”
- Sarah Michelle Gellar- Copy
- 3.8K
“ Writing ought either to be the manufacture of stories for which there is a market demand — a business as safe and commendable as making soap or breakfast foods — or it should be an art, which is always a search for something for which there is no market demand, something new and untried, where the values are intrinsic and have nothing to do with standardized values. ”
- Willa Cather- Copy
- 37
“ I'm furious about the Women's Liberationists. They keep getting up on soap-boxes and proclaiming that women are brighter than men. That's true, but it should be kept very quiet or it ruins the whole racket. ”
- Anita Loos- Copy
- 2.7K
“ To be able to make a good living in a challenging medium like soap operas is great. The best is that I get to act and am rewarded for it. And the people I work with are great. Funny, intelligent, hard working. They're all great to be around. ”
- David Canary- Copy
- 3.3K
“ So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage-leaf, to make an apple-pie; and at the same time a great she-bear, coming up the street, pops its head into the shop. 'What! no soap?' So he died, and she very imprudently married the barber. ”
- Samuel Foote- Copy
- 915
“ Prestige is the shadow of money and power. Where these are, there it is. Like the national market for soap or automobiles and the enlarged arena of federal power, the national cash-in area for prestige has grown, slowly being consolidated into a truly national system. ”
- C. Wright Mills- Copy
- 2.2K
“ We've taken on a very ambitious project, which is like a cyber-soap-rock-opera, I suppose. It's a very modern piece called Bored With Prozac And The Internet. And that's going to be a trilogy, but the first album of that is completed, and when we were doing that, we spent a lot of time in the studio, and I suppose we really learned a lot about each other and what our strengths and weakness were for production… ”
- Nick Rhodes- Copy
- 2.4K
“ The advance planning and sense stimuli employed to capture a $10 million cigarette or soap market are nothing compared to the brainwashing and propaganda blitzes used to ensure control of the largest cash market in the world: the Executive Branch of the United States Government. ”
- Phyllis Schlafly- Copy
- 2.3K
“ Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run. Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
- 2.8K
“ Prestige is the shadow of money and power. Where these are, there it is. Like the national market for soap or automobiles and the enlarged arena of federal power, the national cash in area for prestige has grown, slowly being consolidated into a truly national system. ”
- Wright C. Mills- Copy
- 90
“ I think every American actor wants to be a movie star. But I never wanted to do stupid movies, I wanted to do films. I vowed I would never do a commercial, nor would I do a soap opera — both of which I did as soon as I left the Company and was starving. ”
- Kevin Kline- Copy
- 100
“ I believe in the total depravity of inanimate things… the elusiveness of soap, the knottiness of strings, the transitory nature of buttons, the inclination of suspenders to twist and of hooks to forsake their lawful eyes, and cleave only unto the hairs of their hapless owner's head. ”
- Katharine Walker- Copy
- 3.2K
“ Growing up female in America. What a liability! You grew up with your ears full of cosmetic ads, love songs, advice columns, whoreoscopes, Hollywood gossip, and moral dilemmas on the level of TV soap operas. What litanies the advertisers of the good life chanted at you! What curious catechisms! ”
- Erica Jong- Copy
- 870
“ Commercial jazz, soap opera, pulp fiction, comic strips, the movies set the images, mannerisms, standards, and aims of the urban masses. In one way or another, everyone is equal before these cultural machines; like technology itself, the mass media are nearly universal in their incidence and appeal… ”
- Wright C. Mills- Copy
- 3.9K
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