Top 25 Quotes by Dalton Trumbo of 34 - Page 2

I never considered the working class anything other than something to get out of.

I never considered the working class anything other than something to get out of.

Class, Working Class

Now I lay me down to sleep my bomb proof cellar's good and deep but if i'm killed before I wake remember god it's for your sake amen.

Dalton Trumbo

Sleep, Bombs, Sake

Dalton Trumbo, E. L. Doctorow (2007). “Johnny Got His Gun”, p.237, Kensington Publishing Corp.

There's a game out there, and the stakes are high. And the guy who runs it figures the averages all day long and all night long. Once in a while he lets you steal a pot. But if you stay in the game long enough, you've got to lose. And once you've lost there's no way back, no way at all.

Dalton Trumbo

Running, Night, Average

"Johnny Got His Gun". Book by Dalton Trumbo, September 3, 1939.

What's so noble about being dead?

Dalton Trumbo

Noble

Dalton Trumbo, E. L. Doctorow (2007). “Johnny Got His Gun”, p.111, Kensington Publishing Corp.

I am one day going to be working openly in the motion picture industry. When that day comes, I swear to you that I will never sign a term contract with any major studio

Dalton Trumbo

One Day, Contracts, Motion Pictures

I will, proudly and by preference, do at least one picture a year for King Brothers, and I will try to make it the best picture that I have it in me to do

Dalton Trumbo

Brother, Kings, Years