Paul Newman Quotes

Newman's first law: It is useless to put on your brakes when you're upside down.

Oh my God. My God. It’s all over.

It always looks darkest just before it gets totally black.

Newman's second law: Just when things look darkest, they go black.

Natural disasters are terrifying - that loss of control, this feeling that something is just going to randomly end your life for absolutely no reason is terrifying. But, what scares me is the human reaction to it and how people behave when the rules of civility and society are obliterated.

His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship.

The time for hope is gone, and come for fear.

It's like being on the Titanic and seeing there's only one lifeboat left.

Warlords of sorrow and queens of tomorrow will offer their heads for a prayer. You can't find no salvation, you have no expectations anytime, anyplace, anywhere.

After all, there is nothing but failure.

How do you know what the world is like? Do you know the world is a foul sty? Do you know if you rip the fronts off houses you'd find swine? The world's a hell. What does it matter what happens in it?

What goes up must come down. But don't expect it to come down where you can find it.

The devil fools with the best laid plans.

Fire truck with back end on fire drives really fast in circles.

Our wills and fates do so contrary run, That our devices still are overthrown; Our thoughts are ours, their ends none of our own.

The feeling of being halfway through a show and just realizing that there's nothing you can do to save it - it's a horrible feeling.

The man was running away with the rest, and selling his papers for a shilling each as he ran—a grotesque mingling of profit and panic.

Abandon hope, all ye who enter here. [Omnes relinquite spes, o vos intrantes]

Many things happen between the cup and the upper lip.

All the fatt's in the fire.

The whole world's on fire.

Bent out of shape from society's pliers, cares not to come up any higher, but rather get you down in the hole that he's in.

They say they don't know when but a day is gonna come. When there won't be a moon and there won't be a sun. It will just go black. It will just go back to the way it was before.

things are never so indescribably ghastly that they can't get worse.

This was good, except that now I had two crazed, burning zombies standing between me and the exit, plus another one that wasn’t on fire. I had not thought this plan through at all.