It's not the falling down that counts. It's the getting up.
Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.
Those who never make mistakes lose a great many chances to learn something
...I'm thirteen years old, and I think I'm at the crossroads of my life. I've got to make good between now and the time I'm twenty, and I have only seven years to do it in. Besides, I'm the father of my family and I've got to earn all the money I can.
Failure is not falling down, it is not getting up again
The refined simplicity should develop out of the complex. It would have been more logical if silent pictures had grown out of the talkie instead of the other way around.