There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances.

Among God's creatures two, the dog and the guitar, have taken all the sizes and all the shapes, in order not to be separated from the man.

Andres Segovia

Although filmmaking is collaborative and involves trust, ultimately it is the director who holds the whole picture together in their head.

Julia Leigh

We cannot create observers by saying 'observe,' but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses.

Maria Montessori

It's love, not the Battle of Thermopylae. You don't have to treat everything like it's a last stand.

Cassandra Clare

I think it's better to be involved in one or two movies a year.

Eric Cantona

An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.

Bill Vaughan

That proves you are unusual, returned the Scarecrow; and I am convinced the only people worthy of consideration in this world are the unusual ones. For the common folks are like the leaves of a tree, and live and die unnoticed.

Lyman Frank Baum

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.

Samuel Johnson

Aim at heaven, and you will get earth thrown in; aim at earth, and you will get neither.

C.S. Lewis

It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness and of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature, and everlasting beauty of monotony.

Benjamin Britten

A doctor may know more than a peasant, but a peasant and a doctor know more together.

Dan Buettner

I think any period in history can be adapted into interesting fiction, as long as you approach the actual history with respect.

Seth Grahame-Smith