1935

Explore 31 quotes from the year 1935

Sort

Why, America’s the only free nation on earth. Besides! Country’s too big for a revolution. No, no! Couldn’t happen here!

Sinclair Lewis

It Can't Happen Here

Buy It Can't Happen Here at Amazon Buy It Can't Happen Here at Amazon

Read It Can't Happen Here at Project Gutenberg

More information about this quote

Topic

Speaker

Author

Source

Medium

Genre

Language

Time

Authentication Score 3

More information on Authentication Score coming soon.

Citation

Lewis, Sinclair. It Can't Happen Here. Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1935, ch. 5.

Citation text copied to clipboard.

Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.

Fernando Pessoa

More information about this quote

Topic

Author

Source

Language

Time

Authentication Score 0

More information on Authentication Score coming soon.

Citation

Pessoa, Fernando (published as Bernardo Soares). Livro do Desassossego [The Book of Disquiet]. Attica, 1982.

Citation text copied to clipboard.

I am convinced that everything that is worth while in the world has been accomplished by the free, inquiring, critical spirit, and that the preservation of this spirit is more important than any social system whatsoever. But the men of ritual and the men of barbarism are capable of shutting up the men of science and of silencing them forever.

Sinclair Lewis

It Can't Happen Here

Buy It Can't Happen Here at Amazon Buy It Can't Happen Here at Amazon

Read It Can't Happen Here at Project Gutenberg

More information about this quote

Topic

Speaker

Author

Source

Medium

Genre

Language

Time

Authentication Score 3

More information on Authentication Score coming soon.

Citation

Lewis, Sinclair. It Can't Happen Here. Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1935, ch. 36.

Citation text copied to clipboard.

I long ago come to the conclusions that all life is 6 to 5 against.

Damon Runyon

There are no other quotes by this person in the Bon Mots database.

More information about this quote

Topic

Author

Language

Time

Authentication Score 1

More information on Authentication Score coming soon.

Citation

Runyon, Alfred Damon. "A Nice Price." Money From Home. Frederick A. Stokes, 1935.

Citation text copied to clipboard.

The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.

Stubby Currence

There are no other quotes by this person in the Bon Mots database.

More information about this quote

Topic

Author

Source

Medium

Language

Time

Authentication Score 0

More information on Authentication Score coming soon.

Citation

Anonymous. Quoted in Oklahoma City Star. 1934.

Citation text copied to clipboard.

A cigarette that bears a lipstick's traces,
An airline ticket to romantic places;
And still my heart has wings
These foolish things
Remind me of you.

Holt Marvell

There are no other quotes by this person in the Bon Mots database.

These Foolish Things Remind Me of You

There are no other quotes from this source in the Bon Mots database.

More information about this quote

Topic

Speaker

Source

Medium

Language

Time

Authentication Score 3

More information on Authentication Score coming soon.

Citation

Maschwitz, Eric (published as Holt Marvell). "These Foolish Things Remind Me of You." Composed by Jack Strachey. Boosey & Hawkes, 1935.

Citation text copied to clipboard.

In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization.

Nikola Tesla

More information about this quote

Topic

Speaker

Source

Medium

Language

Time

Authentication Score 3

More information on Authentication Score coming soon.

Citation

Tesla, Nikola. "A Machine to End War." Interviewed by George Sylvester Viereck. Liberty Magazine, 9 Feb. 1935.

Citation text copied to clipboard.

The Common Law of England has been laboriously built about a mythical figure-the figure of "The Reasonable Man.".... He is an ideal, a standard, the embodiment of all those qualities which we demand of the good citizen.

A.P. Herbert

The Reasonable Man

There are no other quotes from this source in the Bon Mots database.

Buy a book containing this essay at Amazon Buy a book containing this essay at Amazon

More information about this quote

Topic

Author

Source

Medium

Language

Time

Authentication Score 3

More information on Authentication Score coming soon.

Citation

Herbert, A. P. "The Reasonable Man." Uncommon Law. Methuen, 1935.

Citation text copied to clipboard.

The first draft of anything is shit.

Ernest Hemingway

More information about this quote

Topic

Speaker

Source

Language

Time

Authentication Score 1

More information on Authentication Score coming soon.

Citation

Hemmingway, Ernest. Quoted in With Hemmingway: A Year in Key West and Cuba, by Arnold Samuelson. Random House, 1984.

Citation text copied to clipboard.

The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.

Pablo Picasso

More information about this quote

Topic

Speaker

Medium

Language

Time

Authentication Score 3

More information on Authentication Score coming soon.

Citation

Picasso, Pablo. "Conversation avec Picasso." Interviewed by Christian Zervos. Cahiers d'Art, 1935.