If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

I love going to movies. It's just big, it takes you away, you can escape into it.

Tom Welling

Never trust a man, who when left alone with a tea cosey... Doesn't try it on.

Billy Connolly

Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself.

Woodrow Wilson

Telling a story in a futuristic world gives you this freedom to explore things that bother you in contemporary times.

Suzanne Collins

What surprises me most about God is that the creator of the universe should want a relationship with me.

Rick Warren

Surely the job of fiction is to actually tell the truth. It's a paradox that's at the heart of any kind of storytelling.

Jeremy Northam

It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win.

John Paul Jones

All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man

Ralph Waldo Emerson

You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I know that is not so.

William Morris Hunt

I actually think of being funny as an odd turn of mind, like a mild disability, some weird way of looking at the world that you can't get rid of.

Calvin Trillin

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. The chasm is never completely bridged. We all have the conviction, perhaps illusory, that we have much more to say than appears on the paper.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Spiritual space is lost in gaining convenience. I saw the need to create a mixture of Japanese spiritual culture and modern western architecture.

Tadao Ando