I have a very vivid memory of the way my parents spoke, and the 50's that I grew up in are closer to the 20's, I think, than today in many, many ways.
I say 'spectacle' rather than 'story' because in the end, it isn't the intricacies of narrative that draw us to horror films. When it's there, I'm grateful for the director's skill at telling an exquisitely nuanced tale filled with psychological insight, but it is the spectacles that I take home with me.
To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.
The same European governments that hesitated to confront terrorists were more than prepared to oppose us.
My biggest pet peeve are just girls who go to sports bars who have no intention on caring what teams are playing, like they're looking for just a night out. That drives me more crazy than anything else. Like, don't pretend to be a sports fan.
I never thought that shoes would be the reason that you recruit players, but it's a factor. I think we need to get the shoe companies out of the lives of the athletes. I think we need to get it back to where parents and coaches have more of a say than peripheral people, but that's easier said than done.
That which has not a real excellency and value in it self, entertains no longer than the giddy Humour which recommended it to us holds.
There are some circles in America where it seems to be more socially acceptable to carry a hand-gun than a packet of cigarettes.
The leaders of the world face no greater task than that of avoiding nuclear war. While preserving the cause of freedom, we must seek abolition of war through programs of general and complete disarmament. The Test-Ban Treaty of 1963 represents a significant beginning in this immense undertaking.
Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.
There is a deep sadness to American poverty, greater than the sadness of any other kind. It's because America has such an ideology of success.
I grew with it, and I used to go to see the monks, who had no possessions, even more extreme than my mother.
I've been to more racetracks than any other person I've met. Almost every track, missing only a few of the newer ones.
My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind.
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
Would I buy a cell phone for my 12-year-old?... No. I should have closer control over my child than that. He really shouldn't be in places where he needs to contact me by cell.
Idleness of the mind is much worse than that of the body: wit, without employment, is a disease - the rust of the soul, a plague, a hell itself.
To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.
Discipline is simply the art of making the soldiers fear their officers more than the enemy.
I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.
There have been more books alone written about Hamlet than have been written about the Bible.
I was as big as I have ever been. I had a personal trainer and was working out. I was feeling good. I was muscular. I had never weighed more than 155 pounds.
National polls showed that when England and France declared war on Germany, in 1939, less than 10 percent of our population favored a similar course for America.
What President Bush has done speaks more than words about his feeling of compassion and commitment to people.
In film, you're so much in the hands and at the mercy of the editor, so sometimes it's good to watch it just to see how it turns out - it can be so different than how you imagined it. But sometimes it's better to just let it go for your own sense of self worth.
People love that you're human and that we're frail and we face the same situations. Honesty tends to communicate with people better than standing up there like you have an 'S' on your chest.
Students can spend their money better than government can. It should not require a federal loan and decades of debt for students to get a college degree. Price limits access - plain and simple.
I would say I'm more fascinated by Big Daddy V than I am necessarily a huge fan of Big Daddy V. He simply threw on the double-strapped unitard... and now he's some sort of fearsome, fighting, wrecking machine.
I would rather clean than beg.
Nothing is more important for young people than enhancing their life chances, liberating their potential and encouraging their contribution to a globally competitive and modern economy.
I'd rather have a small part in a good film with good people than play the lead in something I don't really care for.
Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.
Certainly there have been better actors than me who have had no careers. Why? I don't know.
Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.
Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.
