The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities.

The first movie I literally ever made in my life was about two guys playing Stratego with each other. I had all my friends dressing up like the military characters in the game. So 'Battleship' is really my second board game turned movie!

Peter Berg

Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Autoc

Hip is the sophistication of the wise primitive in a giant jungle.

Norman Mailer

In a change of masters the poor change nothing except their master's name.

Phaedrus

To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Edmond Haracourt

I sometimes lie awake at night trying to think of something funny that Richard Nixon said.

Lyn Nofziger

Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside you --like music to the musician or Marxism to the Communist --or else it is nothing, an empty formalized bore around which pedants can endlessly drone their notes and explanations.

Source Unknown

Dying is easy, it's living that scares me to death.

Annie Lennox

I saw what happened when a dictator was allowed to take over a piece of a country and the country went down the tubes. And I saw the opposite during the war when America joined the fight.

Madeleine Albright

Any problems that may occur have ultimately been caused by you, because you are responsible for where you are and what you are doing there.

Garth Stein

When you can do the common things in life in a uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.

George Washington Carver

The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed for it.

Chester A. Arthur