You earn very little money on independent films and I'm the provider for my home, so I do have to think of taking one for the accountant time and again and that means studio pictures.

So if you want great sports, Michigan's the place to be.

Rick Snyder

He who laughs most, learns best.

John Cleese

Individuality of expression is the beginning and end of all art.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Delirium and dazzlement are in a relation which constitutes the essence of madness, exactly as truth and light, in their fundamental relation, constitute classical reason.

Michel Foucault

In those early years in New York when I was a stranger in a big city, it was the companionship and later friendship which I was offered in the Linnean Society that was the most important thing in my life.

Ernst Mayr

I long for the raised voice, the howl of rage or love.

Leslie Fiedler

Men will lie on their backs, talking about the fall of man, and never make an effort to get up

Henry David Thoreau

Friends and neighbors, the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing abatement.

Benjamin Franklin

Happiness is the gauge that measures your relationship with God.

Steve Maraboli

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

Herbert Kaufman

Tears are the summer showers to the soul.

Alfred Austin

America is an adorable woman chewing tobacco.

Frederic Auguste Bartholdi