Top 12 Quotes & Sayings by Arthur M. Jolly

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American playwright Arthur M. Jolly.
Last updated on April 14, 2025.
Arthur M. Jolly

Arthur M. Jolly is an American playwright and screenwriter. In 2006, he was awarded an Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting for his comedy The Free Republic of Bobistan.

You can't make cheese from rats. ... It's hard enough just milking the little beggars.
Don't cook that chicken - it still has feathers.
A little is fine, but the minute you start believing that you've picked the only right one out of the 4,200 or so on offer, you need to get a grip on yourself. Once you start thinking that it's okay to hate someone that chose one of the 4,199 others... snap out of it.
Writing is nothing less than thought transference, the ability to send one's ideas out into the world, beyond time and distance, taken at the value of the words, unbound from the speaker.
Spending the day with you has been marginally better than watching mother die of cancer. — © Arthur M. Jolly
Spending the day with you has been marginally better than watching mother die of cancer.
Every battle, every war - is fought for things worth dying for.
I adore [my son]. I wouldn't trade him in for a Pulitzer - unless someone actually offered that as an option.
The only thing that matters is what you do now, here.
People who are intolerant, categorize and over-react... should all be dragged against a wall and shot.
I thought I would try my hand at sailing. It was too small and kept sinking, so I decided to try a boat instead.
It’s always hard. If it was easy, everyone would do it rather than going around telling you their ideas and saying how they could be a writer if they had the time.
Just because you're living in blissful oblivion doesn't mean you're not responsible.
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