If I had a choice as to my perfect career, I would make a couple of films a year and then concentrate on natural history.

I've looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes.

Douglas MacArthur

Grant me an old man's frenzy, Myself must I remakeTill I am Timon and LearOr that William BlakeWho beat upon the wallTill Truth obeyed his call;A mind Michael Angelo knewThat can pierce the clouds,Or inspired by frenzyShake the dead in their shrouds;Forgotten else by mankind,An old man's eagle mind.

William Butler Yeats, from An Ac

Farming with live animals is a 7 day a week, legal form of slavery.

George Segal

I was a modest, good-humored boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.

Max Beerbohm

I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either.

Jack Benny

I made a conscious decision not to tell anyone in my life. Now I tell people - don't tell anyone your idea until you have invested enough of yourself in it that you are not going to turn back. When a person has an idea at that conception moment it is the most vulnerable - one negative comment could knock you off course.

Sara Blakely

I've got all the money I'll ever need, if I die by four o clock.

Henny Youngman

Honestly, I think a good film is spiritual, regardless of whether its subject is faith.

Vera Farmiga

Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense.

Mark Overby

I was excited by what my painter friends were doing, and they seemed to be interested in our poetry too, and that was a wonderful little, fizzy sort of world.

Kenneth Koch

My dad told us up front, 'Guys, if you want to play sports, go ahead, but it's your decision.'

Peyton Manning

A bird cried jubilation. In that moment they lived long. All minor motions were stilled and only the great ones were perceived. Beneath them the earth turned, singing.

Sheri S. Tepper