A Quote by Kingman Brewster, Jr.

You and I know that there is a correlation between the creative and the screwball. So we must suffer the screwball gladly.

Kingman Brewster, Jr.

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Kingman Brewster, Jr.
American - Educator
June 17, 1919 - November 8, 1988

I think it jumps generations. You get a screwball in one, and then the next one is straight, then you get a screwball. My grandmother was goofy, my mother was straight.

Grace Slick

I am a passionate devotee of the Howard Hawks' screwball comedies of the 1930s and the 1940s, where I think that the relations between men and women were at their civilized height in terms of banter and exchange of wit and equality.

Allison Pearson

There's a certain amount of screwball and genius in 'Willy Wonka.'

Douglas Hodge

I have five pitches. Fast ball, change, curve, slider, screwball. I don't know any hitters. Catcher, he tells me what to do. I can get any pitch I want over the plate.

Juan Marichal

We are each the star of our own situation comedy, and, with luck, the screwball friend in somebody else's.

Robert Breault

If the affairs of the world were put in the hands of the screwball artists, it couldn’t be in a worse state than it is now !

Man Ray

I'm a fan of classic romance films as well as screwball comedies. I think love stories are just compelling narratives.

Rose Matafeo

The screwball's an unnatural pitch. Nature never intended a man to turn his hand like that throwing rocks at a bear.

Carl Hubbell

I think that most of the best movies made in America in the 20th century were crime dramas, screwball comedies and westerns.

Terry Teachout

Muhammad was a jackass. People who believe in him are stupid. Let us call a spade as spade. These people must be laughed at. They, and their screwball prophet have to be ridiculed not respected. Let them cringe, let them wince, let them agonize. We must demolish this fetish and break the shackles of these wretched people. They must be set free and the only way to do that is to demolish their fetish.

Ali Sina

As the tall dark and handsome male star, Carey Grant always stands for male beauty and desirability, whether in a 30s screwball, a 40s film noir, or a 50s romantic comedy. He consequently turns around the orthodox gender between the one who looks and so desires, and the one who is looked at, and so is being desired.

Steven A. Cohen

The great thing about 'Vera Stark' is that my research was watching movies, screwball comedies, so I could literally sit back and relax.

Lynn Nottage

The best thing about serial drama - especially about screwball comedy - is blocked love.

Alison Pill

I like old movies, screwball comedies, vintage clothes, and basically I'm an old-fashioned gal.

Zooey Deschanel

Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball.

James Patrick Murray

I can give you my personal opinion: love the music, hate the business. It's a screwball business, and there are a lot of players who will straight-up lie to you.

Justin Timberlake

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