Michael O'Donoghue Professions : Writer Born : January 5, 1940 Died : November 8, 1994 Browse All Authors Top 27 quotes by Michael O'Donoghue Life is one big minefield, and the only place that isn't a minefield is the place they make the mines. Michael O'Donoghue minefields bigs life-is Living well and ripping your enemy's still-beating heart out with your bare hands is the best revenge. Michael O'Donoghue revenge heart hands Once you put yourself in the hands of the government, you could end up in Utah. Michael O'Donoghue utah government hands I don’t think television will ever be perfected until the viewer can press a button and cause whoever is on the screen’s head to explode. Michael O'Donoghue buttons television thinking You only live once and, usually, not even then. Michael O'Donoghue you-only-live-once Licorice is the liver of candy. Michael O'Donoghue liver candy Making people laugh is the lowest form of comedy. Michael O'Donoghue comedy laughing people The transformation scene, where man is becoming insect and insect has become at least man and beyond that - a flying, godlike, shimmering, diaphanous, beautiful creature. Michael O'Donoghue flying beautiful men If there were a Mount Rushmore of American humor, Terry Southern would be the mountain they'd carve it from Michael O'Donoghue mountain southern would-be A Madagascar Hissing Roach chasing Jerry Lewis. That would be a really neat treat. Michael O'Donoghue madagascar roaches would-be Amazing products, cats. And real simple to manufacture. Michael O'Donoghue cat real simple It's an end of the world I guess. I guess you'd currently call it disaster movie. But really they weren't disaster movies. They were more end of the world movies. This is more an end of the world movie. Michael O'Donoghue disaster ends world It began as this desire to do this science fiction movie about perhaps one of the last insects left that nobody's done anything on, which is the cockroach - and truly one of the most frightening insects. Michael O'Donoghue cockroaches scary desire Surely there must be a better gift God could have given us than life? Michael O'Donoghue given Nothing important has ever come out of San Francisco, Rice-a-Roni aside. Michael O'Donoghue san-francisco rice important Television doesn't want to admit it has those dreadful roach ads on anyway. Michael O'Donoghue roaches want television Insects are my secret fear. That's what terrifies me more than anything - insects. Michael O'Donoghue insects scary secret Working with Woody Allen is like filming Howard Hughes's will. It's a very mysterious and strange event. You never get a peek at the whole will. Michael O'Donoghue mysterious strange events It's very easy to make insects move. Because they do move mechanically without the rippling of flesh as you mentioned. They move more like real tinker toys and you can make models of them quite easily. Michael O'Donoghue real flesh moving One of my problems is I am getting so mature that I have to pick up a TV and toss it through the coffee table just to remind people of who I am. I want to go ranting and screaming into the grave. Michael O'Donoghue i-am problems coffee people Similar Authors Ihab Hassan writer Ingmar Bergman writer Isabella Bird writer Ivan E. Coyote writer Al Feldstein writer Bert Sugar writer All Authors
