Inherit The Wind Quotes

• An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.

  Clarence Darrow

  Ideas, Cathedrals, Monument

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• Progress has never been a bargain. You have to pay for it. Sometimes I think there's a man who sits behind a counter and says, "All right, you can have a telephone but you lose privacy and the charm of distance. Madam, you may vote but at a price. You lose the right to retreat behind the powder puff or your petticoat. Mister, you may conquer the air but the birds will lose their wonder and the clouds will smell of gasoline."

  Jerome Lawrence

  Distance, Character, Men

  "Fictional character: Henry Drummond". "Inherit the Wind", www.imdb.com. 1960.

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• Stories are meant to comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.

  Finley Peter Dunne

  Comfort, Stories, Comfortable

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• But to paraphrase Henry Drummond in Inherit the Wind, ignorance and mediocrity are forever busy, and the forces of mediocrity aren't content with being mediocre; they'll do everything in their power to prevent even the humblest of teachers and children from accomplishing anything extraordinary. For good work shines a light on the failures of the mediocre, and that is a light which terrifies those who conspire to keep our nation's children, like themselves, ordinary.

  Rafe Esquith

  Teacher, Children, Ignorance

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• I may be rancid butter, but I'm on your side of the bread.

  Gene Kelly

  Your Side, May, Bread

  "Fictional character: E. K. Hornbeck". "Inherit the Wind", www.imdb.com. 1960.

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• All motion is relative. Maybe it's you who've moved away by standing still.

  Jerome Lawrence

  Standing Still, Stills, Moved

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• The man who has everything figured out is probably a fool.

  Jerome Lawrence

  Men, Fool, He Man

  Jerome Lawrence, Robert E. Lee (2016). “Inherit the Wind: The Powerful Courtroom Drama in which Two Men Wage the Legal War of the Century”, p.55, Ballantine Books

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• An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral. And the advance of man's knowledge is more of a miracle than any sticks turned to snakes, or the parting of waters!

  Jerome Lawrence

  Men, Snakes, Ideas

  "Inherit the Wind". Play by Jerome Lawrence, 1955.

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• How do you know that God didn't speak to Charles Darwin?

  Jack Lemmon

  Speak, Knows, Do You Know

  "Pals revisit Scopes in 'Inherit the Wind'". www.cnn.com. May 28, 1999.

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• Darwin was Wrong! Man's still an ape.

  Jerome Lawrence

  Men, Apes, Wrong Man

  "Fictional character: E. K. Hornbeck". "Inherit the Wind", www.imdb.com. 1960.

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• When I did Inherit the Wind, I learned about teaching school. I also found out what a fundamentalist was.

  Dick York

  Teaching, School, Wind

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• Inherit the Wind is a wonderful play, and I was in the original with Paul Muni

  Tony Randall

  Wind, Play, Wonderful

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• The aftermath of the war is what inspired us to write many of our plays. The whole reason for our writing Inherit the Wind was that we were appalled at the blacklisting. We were appalled at thought control.

  Jerome Lawrence

  War, Writing, Wind

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• In no instance is there to be a musical or opera of Inherit the Wind because it doesn't sing. It's an intellectual play.

  Jerome Lawrence

  Wind, Play, Intellectual

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• Is it possible to be overzealous, to destroy that which you hope to save-so that nothing is left but emptiness.

  Jerome Lawrence

  Emptiness, Overzealous, Left

  Jerome Lawrence, Robert E. Lee (2016). “Inherit the Wind: The Powerful Courtroom Drama in which Two Men Wage the Legal War of the Century”, p.67, Ballantine Books

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• Dreamers are not content with being mediocre.

  Rick Pitino

  Basketball, Dreamer, Being Me

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• You never push a noun against a verb without trying to blow up something.

  H. L. Mencken

  Writing, Blow, Trying

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• No kid in the world, no woman in the world should ever raise a hand against a no-good daddy. That's already been taken care of: A Man Who Destroys His Own Home Shall Inherit the Wind.

  Dick Gregory

  Taken, Home, Kids

  Dick Gregory, Robert Lipsyte (1990). “Nigger”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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