Roger Ebert Quotes - BrainyQuote

Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you. - Roger Ebert

Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you. Roger Ebert

Intelligence, Confused

Parents and schools should place great emphasis on the idea that it is all right to be different. Racism and all the other 'isms' grow from primitive tribalism, the instinctive hostility against those of another tribe, race, religion, nationality, class or whatever. You are a lucky child if your parents taught you to accept diversity. Roger Ebert

Lucky, Other, Primitive

I begin to feel like most Americans don't understand the First Amendment, don't understand the idea of freedom of speech, and don't understand that it's the responsibility of the citizen to speak out. Roger Ebert

Amendment, Citizen, Like

There's nothing like impending death to rouse you from existential boredom. Roger Ebert

Rouse, Existential, Boredom

Why do alcoholics begin down the same hazardous road day after day? They are in search of that elusive window of well-being that opens when you drink your way out of a hangover and aren't yet drunk all over again. The alcoholic's day consists of trying to keep that window open. Roger Ebert

Why, Your, Down

Clouds do not really look like camels or sailing ships or castles in the sky. They are simply a natural process at work. So too, perhaps, are our lives. Roger Ebert

Sky, Castles, Process

Life is made up of challenges that cannot be solved but only accepted. Roger Ebert

Challenges, Made, Only

Nothing ever seems straightforward in Venice, least of all its romances. Roger Ebert

Straightforward, Romances

We think of first love as sweet and valuable, a blessed if hazardous condition. Roger Ebert

Love, Think, Condition

Because I don't give the studios advanced quotes or an advanced look at my reviews. I think the readers deserve to read my reviews before the studios do. Roger Ebert

Deserve, Give, Think

Top 10
Roger Ebert
Quotes

Lebanon was at one time known as a nation that rose above sectarian hatred; Beirut was known as the Paris of the Middle East. All of that was blown apart by senseless religious wars, financed and exploited in part by those who sought power and wealth. If women had been in charge, would they have been more sensible? It's a theory. Roger Ebert

Religious, Been, Nation

Teaching prejudice to a child is itself a form of bullying. You've got to be taught to hate. Roger Ebert

Itself, Form, Taught

The problem with being sure that God is on your side is that you can't change your mind, because God sure isn't going to change His. Roger Ebert

Mind, Side, Sure

I'll tell you, I think that the Internet has provided an enormous boost to film criticism by giving people an opportunity to self publish or to find sites that are friendly. Roger Ebert

Think, I Think, Friendly

To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts. We must try to contribute joy to the world. That is true no matter what our problems, our health, our circumstances. We must try. I didn't always know this, and am happy I lived long enough to find it out. Roger Ebert

Happy, Contribute, Matter

There is a part of me that will forever want to be walking under autumn leaves, carrying a briefcase containing the works of Shakespeare and Yeats and a portable chess set. I will pass an old tree under which once on a summer night I lay on the grass with a fragrant young woman and we quoted e.e. cummings back and forth. Roger Ebert

Fragrant, Works, Woman

It is reckless to make broad generalizations about any group of people. Roger Ebert

Generalizations, Reckless

No good movie is too long and no bad movie is short enough. Roger Ebert

Bad, Movie, Bad Movie

And I think both the left and the right should celebrate people who have different opinions, and disagree with them, and argue with them, and differ with them, but don't just try to shut them up. Roger Ebert

Think, Shut, I Think

Every great film should seem new every time you see it. Roger Ebert

Movies, New, See

' The Lucky One' is at its heart a romance novel, elevated however by Nicholas Sparks' persuasive storytelling. Readers don't read his books because they're true, but because they ought to be true. Roger Ebert

Lucky, However, Persuasive

I was perfectly content before I was born, and I think of death as the same state. What I am grateful for is the gift of intelligence, and for life, love, wonder, and laughter. You can't say it wasn't interesting. My lifetime's memories are what I have brought home from the trip. Roger Ebert

Gift, Love, I Think

One difference between film noir and more straightforward crime pictures is that noir is more open to human flaws and likes to embed them in twisty plot lines. Roger Ebert

Straightforward, More, Them

Reese Witherspoon is as cute as a button on Raggedy Ann's overalls, but irresistible raw sex appeal is not one of her qualities. Roger Ebert

Overalls, Sex, Raw

'Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter' is without a doubt the best film we are ever likely to see on the subject - unless there is a sequel, which is unlikely, because at the end, the Lincolns are on their way to the theater. Roger Ebert

Which, Likely, Unlikely

Sometimes it's all about the casting. Roger Ebert

Sometimes, About, Casting

Loading...

Load more quotes

Related Authors

George Edward Woodberry

Lionel Trilling

Margaret Fuller

Alexander Woollcott

Brooks Atkinson

BrainyQuote

BrainyQuote Desktop

BrainyQuote Mobile

Site

Quote Of The Day

Social

BQ on Pinterest

BQ on Instagram

Apps

iPhone/iPad app

Quote Of The Day Feeds

Javascript and RSS feeds

WordPress plugin

Quote of the Day Email

About

Copyright © 2001 - 2018 BrainyQuote

Language: Español | Français

Please disable your ad blocker

OK