Quotessence
Home / Topics / Fiasco Quotes

Fiasco Quotes

Browse 89 quotes about Fiasco.

Related topics

PeopleIfsKnowsThinkingHip HopLooksMenPresident

Fiasco Quotes

“If there were lessons to be learnt from the East Pakistan/ Bangladesh fiasco, Pakistan’s civil and military leaders did not learn them. Instead of recognizing the inadequacy of the two nation theory, religious ideology and brute force in keeping the country together, the break-up was rationalized as the result of Indian hostility, malfeasance of Pakistani politicians, and the geographic remoteness of the eastern wing.”

PakistanBangladeshFiasco
Author:Husain Haqqani
Create image

“On March 11, 1980, Steven Bach was given some shocking news: Andy Albeck told him that David Field had handed in his resignation and was going to 20th Century Fox. It was announced in the press as being for the usual boilerplate “personal reasons.” But everyone at Fox soon learned the real reason for his fleeing United Artists (once principle photography had finally wrapped on Heaven’s Gate)… DAVID FIELD: “Everyone thought it was because of Heaven’s Gate. In fact, it was because I could not go on working with Steven Bach.”

CharlatansFiascoBad MoviesMovie MakingHollywood CultureFilm QuotesBad BossHollywood QuotesFilmmaking QuotesUnited Artists
Book:Final Cut: Art, Money, and Ego in the Making of Heaven's Gate, the Film That Sank United Artists
Create image

“Absolutely I'm going to be talking about it, because it's in the zeitgeist and it's happening. It's an election year. It's the biggest election. Every election is a big election, so whenever anybody says that it kinds of grates me, but it's a fiasco. It's turned into a complete circus act, so of course you have to make fun of it, but responsible journalists definitely are being irresponsible. They're giving [Donald Trump] so much air time.”

GivingYearsKindBigsCoursesFunTalkingAirTrumpHappeningsResponsibleElectionJournalistCircusIrresponsibleZeitgeistFiascoGrateElection Years
Author:Chelsea Handler
Create image

“You know, I’ve had a really wonderful night tonight. I got to tell Kyrian and Julian that Valerius is in town and spent, oh I don’t know, three, four hours trying to keep them from going after the Roman. Then, just when I could relax and do my job, I find out there are Daimons in the swamp and no Talon to kill them. And why wasn’t Talon here? Because Tarzan was swinging off a balcony to save Jane from Cheetah. Now all I can do is stand here and say, next fiasco, please, right this way. (Acheron)”

KnowsWayTryingI CanJobsNightThreeNextCan DoHoursFourWonderfulPleaseTownsRelaxTonightJaneSwampsFiascoBalconiesTalonsCheetahsWonderful Night
Book:Night Pleasures/Night Embrace
Create image

“It is this idea 'decency' should be attached to wealth -and 'indecency'' to poverty - that forms the core of one strand of skeptical complaint against the modern status-ideal. Why should failure to make money be taken as a sign of an unconditionally flawed human being rather than of a fiasco in one particular area if the far larger, more multifaceted, project of leading a good life? Why should both wealth and poverty be read as the predominant guides to an individual's morals ?”

IfsShouldHumansIdeasFormIndividualWealthHuman BeingsMoralPovertyTakenModernParticularProjectsAreasIdealsGuidesCoreMaking MoneyGood LifeComplaintsFlawedDecencySkepticalStrandsFiascoWealth And Poverty
Author:Alain de Botton
Create image

“Scientists constantly get clobbered with the idea that we spent 27 billion dollars on the Apollo programs, and are asked "What more do you want?" We didn't spend it; it was done for political reasons. ... Apollo was a response to the Bay of Pigs fiasco and to the successful orbital flight of Yuri Gagarin. President Kennedy's objective was not to find out the origin of the moon by the end of the decade; rather it was to put a man on the moon and bring him back, and we did that.”

MenWantIdeasEndsReasonDoneSciencePoliticalPresidentSuccessfulMoonProgramScientistDollarsResponseDecadesBillionsObjectivesFlightPigsApolloFiascoPresident KennedyBay Of Pigs
Author:Carl Sagan
Create image

“Reggae, oh man. It's the ultimate music. The positivity. The musicality. The whole cultural expressionism of it. The danceability. Just the cool factor. The melody factor. Some of it comes from a religious place. If there were a competition of who makes the best religious music, it would definitely be the Rastafarian reggae.”

IfsMenWholeReligiousUltimateCompetitionPositivityFactorsMelodyRapperReggaeFiascoExpressionismReggae MusicMusicalityRastaReligious Music
Author:Lupe Fiasco
Create image