Roger Ebert Quotes

American - Critic June 18, 1942 - April 4, 2013

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

Lie, Intelligence, Emotions, You, Never

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

Racism, Religion, Parents, Great, Child

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

Work, Sky, Clouds, Look, Process, Ships

In my reviews, I feel it's good to make it clear that I'm not proposing objective truth, but subjective reactions; a review should reflect the immediate experience. Roger Ebert

Good, Experience, Truth, Feel, Reflect

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

Nothing, Venice, Straightforward, Seems

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

Women, Power, Time, Rose, Paris, Wealth

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

Bullying, Hate, Child, You, Prejudice

Open-heart surgery is now part of a typical life experience for many people. Folks talk casually about 'having a stent put in,' as if they had their tires rotated. Roger Ebert

Life, Experience, People, Talk, Now, Had

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

Tree, Me, Woman, Night, Autumn, Walking

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

Freedom, Responsibility, Speak, Feel

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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

Day, Road, Search, Window, Down, Drunk

My motto: 'No good movie is depressing. All bad movies are depressing.' Roger Ebert

Good, Motto, Movies, Bad, Depressing

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

Health, Joy, World, Happy, Problems

' 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

Heart, True, Be True, Storytelling

I remember when a Coke came in a six-ounce bottle, and delicious it was. Now it comes in sizes so big that I question how the human bladder can deal with the intake. Roger Ebert

Remember, Now, Human, Question, Big, How

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

Pictures, Flaws, Difference, Human, Film

Dogs notice, they share, they draw conclusions, they like it when they're able to be of service and are touchingly grateful when they're praised. Roger Ebert

Service, Grateful, Dogs, Like, Share

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

People, Group, Generalizations, Reckless

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

Good, Short, Long, Enough, Bad, Too

If your religion doesn't respect the rights of other religions, it is lacking something. Roger Ebert

Respect, Religion, Religions, Rights

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

Life, Challenges, Only, Up, Made, Cannot

When we're discussing who to invite to a dinner party, my wife Chaz and I sometimes use the shorthand, 'good value for money,' which indicates guests expected to be entertaining. Roger Ebert

Good, Money, Wife, Value, Dinner, Party

Wes Anderson's mind must be an exciting place for a story idea to be born. It immediately becomes more than a series of events and is transformed into a world with its own rules, in which everything is driven by emotions and desires as convincing as they are magical. Roger Ebert

World, Mind, Place, Story, Emotions, Own

The idea that a book can advise a woman how to capture a man is touchingly naive. Books advising men how to capture a woman are far less common, perhaps because few men are willing to admit to such a difficulty. For both sexes, I recommend a good novel, offering scenarios you might learn from, if only because they reflect a lot of doubt. Roger Ebert

Good, Book, Man, Men, Woman, You

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

Love, Blessed, Sweet, Think, First Love

I think most people are more susceptible to prejudice than to reason. Roger Ebert

People, Think, Prejudice, More, Reason

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