We often hear of a male director directing a great indie and immediately being offered the next huge comic book movie. Rarely, if ever, does this happen to a woman.
The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.
Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success.
There is always a period when a man with a beard shaves it off. This period does not last. He returns headlong to his beard.
Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.
Only in Washington does a decrease in the proposed increase equal a spending cut.
My parents did not have a perfect marriage. It was pretty good, but it was not perfect. My marriage is not perfect. My wife is, but I happen to be imperfect. However, that does not discount the fact that the definition of marriage must be defended and protected.
This homage has been rendered not to me - for the Polish soil is fertile and does not lack better writers than me - but to the Polish achievement, the Polish genius.
If judicial review means anything, it is that judicial restraint does not allow everything.
It does not seem that the contradiction which exists between the aristocratic function of art and the democratic structure of modern society can ever be resolved.
There's nothing greater in the world than when somebody on the team does something good, and everybody gathers around to pat him on the back.
The new generation of consoles has as much power to do the kind of games that we do as the PC does.
I didn't want people to say his brother Bing sings better than he does.
I would love to slip into the skin of a fish and know what it's like to be one. They have senses that I can only dream about. They have a lateral line down their whole body that senses motion, but maybe it does more than that.
What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.
People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.
The king reigns but does not govern.
Being lazy does not mean that you do not create. In fact, lying around doing nothing is an important, nay crucial, part of the creative process. It is meaningless bustle that actually gets in the way of productivity. All we are really saying is, give peace a chance.
Panic does not help, even if you are unable to answer. Try to ask questions to the interviewers as well and it should be impressive enough.
No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy except yourselves.
Budgets that don't balance, public programs that aren't funded, pension funds that are running out of money, schools that aren't funded - How does that help anyone?
A great man is the man who does something for the first time.
Does my character hate Bree? Well, let's just put it this way. Bree hasn't seen the last of me. I gave that drunk gal a ride home a few episodes ago and she turned on me!
It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.
It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.
You make your own path as an actor. Nobody does it for you, so you have to invent yourself.
Our culture does not teach us this, but what happens in Vegas does not stay in Vegas. If you cheat in Vegas, it comes right home with you. If you cheat in Vegas, you walk home as a cheater. You lie awake at a night a cheater. You cannot escape it.
Superheroes fill a gap in the pop culture psyche, similar to the role of Greek mythology. There isn't really anything else that does the job in modern terms. For me, Batman is the one that can most clearly be taken seriously.
It's like learning a language; you can't speak a language fluently until you find out who you are in that language, and that has as much to do with your body as it does with vocabulary and grammar.
Everything Marilyn does is different from any other woman, strange and exciting, from the way she talks to the way she uses that magnificent torso.
You must know in your heart before anyone else does what is going to be good and then follow through.
Prior to any questioning, the person must be warned that he has a right to remain silent, that any statement he does make may be used as evidence against him and that he has a right to the presence of an attorney, either retained or appointed.
You can't take a story and just stretch it out - that does not a novel make.
Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.
The fatigue produced on the muscles of the human frame does not altogether depend on the actual force employed in each effort, but partly on the frequency with which it is exerted.
Goodness comes out of people who bask in the sun, as it does out of a sweet apple roasted before the fire.