Sands Quotes

(After failing to win the Best Actor Oscar for Sands of Iwo Jima (1949)) The best way to survive an Oscar is to never try to win another one. You`ve seen what happens to some Oscar winners. They spend the rest of their lives turning down scripts while searching for the great role to win another one. Hell, I hope I`m never even nominated again. It`s meat-and-potato roles for me from now on.

Well, actually, I do the voiceover for Quentin Sands.

... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering worth the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy -- that it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.

The relationships within the band have grown much more friendly and forgiving, and the sands of time have rounded off a few corners, shall we say.

I was signed to MGM. I was in Vegas for sixteen weeks at the Sands Hotel.

On the retirement of Admiral Sands in 1874, Admiral Davis returned to the observatory, and continued in charge until his death in February, 1877.

No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or three icebergs, until he has been lost in the sands of the desert, until he has spent a few years in the House of the Dead.