Quote

Inconceivable! You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

William Goldman

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

William Goldman
Age: 87 †
Born: 1931
Born: August 12
Died: 2018
Died: November 16
Novelist
Playwright
Screenwriter
Writer
Highland Park
Illinois
S. Morgenstern
Harry Longbaugh
Word
Funny
Buttercup
Means
Inconceivable
Keep
Brides
Mean
Princess
Think
Using
Thinking
Humor
Movie

More quotes by William Goldman

Image
You're alive! Fezzik cried. The man in black sat immobile, like a ventriloquist's dummy, just his mouth moving. That is perhaps the most childishly obvious remark I have ever come across.
William Goldman
Image
I seemed busy, busy, busy, but I suppose, if pressed, I might have admitted that, for all my frenzy, I was very much alone.
William Goldman
Image
As far as the filmmaking process is concerned, stars are essentially worthless - and absolutely essential.
William Goldman
Image
Let's look on the bright side: we're having an adventure, Fezzik, and most people live and die without being as lucky as we are.
William Goldman
Image
People don't remember me. Really. It's not a paranoid thing I just have this habit of slipping through memories. It doesn't bother me all that much, except I guess that's a lie it does. For some reason, I test very high on forgettability.
William Goldman
Image
Dummy, dummy, go out now and fill your tummy.
William Goldman
Image
If all that's going on in your scenes is what's going on in your scenes, think about it a long time.
William Goldman
Image
When I was your age, television was called books.
William Goldman
Image
Her heart was a secret garden and the walls were very high.
William Goldman
Image
Duhhhhhhh, tanks, Buttercup.
William Goldman
Image
You think this is a trap then? the Count asked. I always think everything is a trap until proven otherwise, the Prince answered. Which is why I'm still alive.
William Goldman
Image
Fool! cried the hunchback. You fell victim to one of the classic blunders. The most famous is 'Never get involved in a land war in Asia,' but only slightly less well known is this: 'Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line.
William Goldman
Image
Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.
William Goldman
Image
I love you,” Buttercup said. “I know this must come as something of a surprise, since all I’ve ever done is scorn you and degrade you and taunt you, but I have loved you for several hours now, and every second, more.
William Goldman
Image
Nobody knows anything...... Not one person in the entire motion picture field knows for a certainty what's going to work. Every time out it's a guess and, if you're lucky, an educated one.
William Goldman
Image
There is one crucial rule that must be followed in all creative meetings. Never speak first. At least at the start, your job is to shut up.
William Goldman
Image
But when a girl gives a boy a dead squid - that had to mean something.
William Goldman
Image
This is my favorite book in all the world, though I have never read it.
William Goldman
Image
Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a while.
William Goldman
Image
One of the easiest things in the world is not to write... If it were easy, everyone would do it.
William Goldman